Business

Bring a refreshed perspective to 2017

A new year brings new opportunities, but all too often it also means facing up to the same old challenges.

M&A trend looks set to continue in ‘17

Although the UK print industry has always experienced its fair share of M&A activity, the past few months have been particularly busy in that regard.

Add another string to your bow

It is billed as “the story of the Beatles as you’ve never seen it before”, and where better to launch a book on the Fab Four than their home city of Liverpool. The book in question, Visualising the...

Can blood ties ensure success is in a firm’s DNA?

“Who can you trust more than your family?” asks Alex Cain, sales director at high-end London printer and stationer Mount Street Printers and son of founders Peter and Fridette Cain.

Eight Days A Week wraps up £500k investment with double Xerox buy

Digital print and direct marketing business Eight Days A Week Print Solutions has capped off a year of investment with the installation of two new Xerox presses.

Acquisitive Anexsys expands

Hobs Group’s legal services division Anexsys has acquired K2 Legal Support, in a move it said had created the largest dedicated legal print and scanning business in the UK.

C&T reinforces range with steel plates addition

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has launched a range of steel cutting plates as part of its strategy to offer die-makers, box-makers and print finishers a complete...

Motivational wisdom for 2017

Jo Francis finds inspiration for the year ahead in two amazing women and a pensioner with a feather duster.

Quotable drops subscription costs and adopts greater print focus

Online marketplace Quotable has made a number of changes to its business model, removing subscription costs and placing a greater focus on print.

2016 and all that... November

No guesses as to which story dominated the news in 2016, the 20 most read stories on printweek.com for 2016 are all about Polestar. Nevertheless there was plenty else going on, not least of all...