Business

Government 95m capex pot: the right idea at the wrong time?

Support for UK manufacturing is something to which British politicians usually pay lip service and not much more. However, the collapse of the financial sector has brought into sharp relief the...

SMEs need aid for working capital, not new equipment

Any help that can be given to SMEs is going to be worth trying. However, I can see a number of pitfalls and problems with this structure. How many businesses will actually need to go and buy new...

St Ives acquires minority stake in Evolved e-book business

St Ives has continued its spending spree with the purchase of a 1.5m, 15.75% stake in Evolved Group, a developer of e-book conversion software for the publishing industry.

Coventry Building Society cuts oursourcing bill with Ryobi investment

Coventry Building Society said it will cut the majority of a 300,000 print outsourcing bill after investing in Ryobi 784E B2-format press.

Investment delivers print's DNA upgrade

Even the most optimistic members of the print industry would not have been expecting to open this supplement to find that the top 500 companies would have abandoned the lifeboats they had emptied into...

Survival of the fittest is theme for 2011

Despite another eventful 12 months for the industry, with a number of significant casualties, some of the movers and shakers have been consolidating, regrouping and even expanding on their past...

Improved Goodhead results damaged by BGP 'snow' loss

Owner Madejski provides additional bail-out to BGP after pre-tax losses

Modest commercial printing sales rise among few highlights in HP's Q4 results

A modest single-digit boost in commercial printer sales was among the few highlights of Hewlett Packard's fourth-quarter results, though many analysts praised new HP CEO Meg Whitman's cautiously...

RR Donnelley acquires Ohio packaging firm StratusGroup

Looking to further expand its consumer packaging capacity, RR Donnelley this week acquired West Chester, OH-based StratusGroup, which specializes in custom pressure-sensitive labels and packaging for...

Mimaki unveils TS34-1800A 1.8m dye sublimation printer

Mimaki has unveiled a new dye sublimation printer that the manufacturer is targeting at customers producing high-volume output.