Print buying
GI Solutions launches creative and artworking agency
Direct marketing and communications company GI Solutions has further diversified its offering by launching a creative and artworking agency to target multiple sectors.
Unitedprint gives its USS ordering software away in bid to partner with UK companies
Unitedprint has started giving away its white label “W2P 3.0” software for free in a bid to become a “sales partner” to UK print companies.
Press and post-press spend for Bell & Bain
Bell & Bain has embarked upon a multimillion-pound investment programme, including the first Horizon Smart Binding System in Europe and a new KBA Rapida 145 large-format litho press.
KBA accolade for Blackmore
Blackmore Group has won KBA’s annual 1814 Production Excellence Award.
De La Rue looks for further savings in print wing
De La Rue is to implement a major restructure of its print manufacturing footprint in a bid to save £13m a year and reduce excess capacity.
More woes for Tangent
Operating profits at Tangent’s print business have crashed by 95% from £1m to just £50,000.
Hot hands uncover Computer Arts’ undercover cover
Heat-reactive ink, which reveals hidden images when warmed, has been used to enhance the front cover of the latest issue of Future Publishing’s graphic design magazine Computer Arts.
Make sure good customers want to keep coming back
On the high street – be it the virtual or physical version – customer loyalty is hard won. The big retailers pump great piles of cash into customer retention strategies because they know that the...
Royal Mail shares rise after interims
Royal Mail’s revenues from marketing mail grew by 3% in the first half of the year, boosted by an increase in DM spend and in its own data activities.
Adapt, rather than die
Jo Francis wonders whether some of our major magazine publishers have lost the art of reinvention.