Briefing

Printers are bracing themselves for another wave of paper price rises, the fourth this year, which are set to come into effect next week.

Kall Kwik and Prontaprint used to be two of the biggest names in the UK high-street print market. At their peak, the two businesses ran a combined total of around 550 outlets in towns up and down the...

In the small hours of 24 June 2016, seemingly almost a lifetime ago, David Dimbleby made an announcement to a stunned nation: “At 20 minutes to five, we can now say, the decision taken in 1975 by this...

For each ally Jeremy Corbyn wins, he seems to make a new enemy too.

As well as being among the world’s biggest brands, internet giants Facebook, Google and Amazon have something else in common – they have all started to embrace printed media in recent times.

In his latest independent review of the high street published last month, former Wickes, Iceland and Booker chief executive Bill Grimsey said that UK town and city centres must be “repopulated and...

It started in December last year with David Attenborough.

Sheetfed magazine specialist Pensord told PrintWeek last month that, as part of a future-proofing strategic investment, it was set to reduce its capacity by replacing two existing Heidelberg...

What was at one time without doubt the UK printing industry’s most-admired business is now not a printer at all.

Everything Is Possible In Print’, is the theme of an event held each year by the Independent Print industries Association’s (IPIA) in London, the 2018 edition of which took place last week.

You don’t always know what the year might throw your way. For printers, demand is often seasonal. Periods of plenty can be followed by pockets of drought.

More than a year has passed since the Apprenticeship Levy was launched last April and many feel that it is not working as intended.

Scotland is at a crossroads. The twin, closely fought issues of Brexit and Scottish independence have divided the country – and the former is now reigniting the latter.

Figures from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) provided to the BBC earlier this month revealed that trade union membership levels have dropped sharply in recent times, particularly among young people.

Earlier this month PrintWeek reported on the ‘perfect storm’ of global events that have tightened the supply of graphical papers and resulted in paper mills resorting to allocation for the first time...