Print buying

St Ives in biggest marketing buy yet
St Ives is issuing £13.8m-worth of new shares and taking on an additional £10m of debt in order to fund its biggest marketing services acquisition yet.

Paragon makes big investment in Service Point
Paragon Group has made a major £3m investment in new digital printing equipment for its Service Point network, including the UK's largest order for Xerox Versant printers.

B2B publisher maps out future print need
The boss of the former Emap B2B publishing business has said the firm will keep printing “just not necessarily mass distribution magazine products”.

Polestar celebrates Express success
Polestar has won back the Express Newspapers supplements that were previously printed on the continent in a deal that encompasses some 125m magazines a year.

Print management firm Hague buys competitor
Growing print management and IT solutions company Hague has acquired a smaller print management firm to increase its customer base and geographical reach.

Proventus team join Polestar board
Proventus Capital Partners has appointed four directors to Polestar Print Holdings, including a former Quebecor executive.

Dunstall censured by Insolvency Service
The Insolvency Service has taken action against Kevin Dunstall over “unexplained payments” of more than £200,000 he made to himself, to the detriment of creditors, while running Prospect Mailing...

Overmatter: Ninja buyer
One of print’s own had his 15 seconds of fame (in fact quite a bit more than that) during the new series of ITV’s Ninja Warrior UK show, which involves people throwing themselves at a very tricky...

Positive trading update from Communisis
Communisis has reported improvement across all of its performance metrics in a trading update released today (21 January) for the financial year to 31 December 2015.

Walstead makes 'steady progress' despite contract loss
Wyndeham Group owner Walstead Investments has filed its first set of full-year results since the group lost its largest-single contract, with chairman Mark Scanlon stating that the firm “will not...