Finance

Bunker: scheme can quickly deliver liquidity to SMEs at time of need

Compass ready with new government-backed finance

New government-backed finance packages to help SME printers survive the virus crisis are now available through Compass Business Finance.

John Brailsford Printers: trying to create a trend of positivity

Print boss makes pay pledge amid virus chaos

John Brailsford, managing director of the eponymous Yorkshire printing business, has pledged to keep paying the firm’s staff during the coronavirus crisis.

The CWU proposed members could become an "emergency service"

CWU offers emergency services as strike action approved

Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) within Royal Mail have voted resoundingly in favour of strike action, but offered to convert to an additional "emergency service" in light of the...

Hundsdörfer: "Innovation will continue and Heidelberg is not turning away from digital printing"

Heidelberg to cut jobs and kit portfolio amid "painful changes"

Heidelberg has begun to implement a wide-ranging “action package” to restore profitability that will see up to 2,000 jobs lost and the end of production for Primefire and very large format (VLF)...

The Baskerville bible is admired for the quality of its binding. Image: Sean Griffiths, ICE Productions, Birmingham

Call for pledges to help bring Birmingham legacy bible back home

A consortium of Birmingham-based heritage organisations is calling for pledges to help it bid for local industrialist Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville family bible.

Rishi Sunak announced his first Budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 11 March

Coronavirus response dominates new Budget, print sector reacts

Print sector figures have tentatively welcomed measures in the new Chancellor’s first Budget as policy was largely geared towards responding to the coronavirus outbreak.

Prices at both companies will rise in April

Two more manufacturers up paper prices

Paper manufacturers Burgo Group and Lecta are the latest to confirm price rises for their products in the European market.

The small matter of fraud

According to PwC’s 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, only 49% of global organisations said they’ve been a victim of fraud and economic crime. While some might question the percentage...

Scoring a line (of credit)

Bread, dough, moolah, dollar, cash – call it what you want – we all have a need and use for it. While the physical is clearly giving way to the digital, money as a medium of exchange, in whatever...

All five defendants were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on 31 January

Exclusive: Anton directors evaded tax 'to help ailing company'

Five former directors of Anton Group sentenced on fraud charges worth £3.1m were “not motivated by greed”, according to the judge’s closing statement at the sentencing attended by Printweek on Friday.