Finance

The government is to provide an extra £250m to the British Business Bank to lend to small businesses, on top of the £1bn already allocated.

Envelope and greetings cards manufacturer Regent Group is in consultation with staff over plans that it says will lead to “a significant number of redundancies”.

Kodak has dismissed claims made by an intellectual property consultancy that it has retained valuable patents that were supposed to become the property of the Kodak UK Pension Plan.

Prospect Mailing Services has been acquired for £400,000 by sister company St Ives Direct Bradford, recently renamed as Global Media Production.

The government says 1.25m businesses and charities will see their National Insurance contributions (NICs) cut by up to £2,000 each when the new Employment Allowance is introduced next year. Business...

Birmingham bookbinders and print finishing firm Henry Mills closed its doors on Friday (22 November) after 157 years of trading.

Lending through the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFG) reached its highest level since 2010 in Q3 2013, new figures show.

Chesapeake Services is to merge with Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) creating a $1.4bn (£864m) global print-based speciality packaging giant.

Following its fall into administration in August this year, Horner Brothers Print Group has now fully transferred to the ownership of Paragon Group UK.

Following its profit warning issued at the beginning of the month, the German press manufacturer has posted a pre tax loss of €16.3m for the first nine months of 2013 on revenues of €729.9m.