Print buying

Paperlinx Austria in administration
The domino effect continues to ripple across Paperlinx’s European businesses – the group’s Austrian operation has now followed the UK and Benelux into administration.

Wyndeham closes Gait in multi-site revamp
Wyndeham Group has closed its Wyndeham Gait factory in Grimsby as part of a wider restructure of its sheetfed and web facilities that will involve significant expansion at one site.

Overmatter: happy birthday, hot stuff
It’s been a while since Overmatter has had a nice print-related cake to write about, so thanks goodness for Systematic Print Management, which has saved us from our slough of sponge-deprived despond.

Tips for a surer footing in the buyer’s balancing act
Buying print is not easy. Even with a working knowledge of the complexities of putting ink on paper, there are always going to be trip wires hidden in the shadows.

Falkland boosts post-press setup
Falkland Press has expanded its post-press facilities with new die-cutting and folding kit.

Premier Paper acquires Paperlinx reels business
Premier Paper is taking on at least 30 former Paperlinx employees after agreeing a deal to acquire its reel paper operations.

Government awards £11.5bn postal goods and services framework
Print businesses including Banner Managed Communication, Capita Business Services and Critiqom (formerly Document Outsourcing) are among 37 suppliers to a mammoth new pan-government postal goods and...

More jobs go at Paperlinx UK
Administrators at Deloitte have laid off a further 70 employees at the stricken Paperlinx UK operations.

Adare chief hails "watershed" MBO deal
Adare chief executive Robert Whiteside has described the £60m management buy-out at the business as “truly a watershed moment” for the group, which is back on the acquisition trail.

Paperlinx Benelux falls to same fate as UK
Paperlinx is exiting Europe altogether. Its Benelux operations have been put into administration with the rest of its European operations described as being in a sale or “realisations process”.