Print buying

Walstead has switched up its senior management team as additional equipment is installed at its Bicester site following the group’s purchase of YM’s web offset assets.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents Royal Mail Group workers, has served notice to the company’s management that strike action will take place on four dates over the coming weeks.

A longstanding family-owned print business has gone into members voluntary liquidation, with employees claiming they have been given mixed messages about how and when they will be paid their wages and...

Communisis parent company OSG has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US and plans to restructure more than $800m (£661m) of debt via a pre-packaged plan.

Antalis has written to customers flagging price rises of up to 20% – and possibly even more than that on certain materials – from next month.

DMG Media has launched a big promotion on print subscriptions for the Mail titles, with a deep discount that takes the price back to where it was a decade ago.

Ancient House Printing Group has filed its first set of results since last year’s change of ownership.

Liquidators have confirmed that Ivanhoe Caledonian has closed its doors with all staff made redundant, citing the pandemic and the resulting loss of work as the cause of its demise.

Another wave of paper price rises look set to impact the sector as two manufacturers announce further double-digit increases.

German papermaker Feldmuehle is switching fuel from gas to light heating oil at short notice due to the gas supply crisis, while paper federation Cepi has warned about possible disruption to paper and...