Print buying

The future for Manchester Printers Group is unclear after the former owner of one of its string of acquisitions was forced to buy his business back out of administration.

A YM Group newspaper industry client was a major creditor of its failed web division, Printweek can reveal.

JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q4 2022, which revealed that more mail was opened, read, and retained over the Christmas trading season than at any other...

Crunch talks between Royal Mail and the CWU have been extended, with “progress made in some areas”.

Integrated communications provider Adare SEC has signed a three-year contract extension with retailer N Brown Group for the provision of transactional print and hybrid mail services.

An unnamed label printer is benefiting from Nigel Farage’s move into branded products with Farage Gin, described as “a taste of Brexit”.

The Norwich Printing Museum, formerly the John Jarrold Printing Museum, has begun searching for a permanent home to its extensive collection.

Antalis has finessed the range of creative papers it acquired from the administrators at Arjowiggins as part of the relaunch of the products.

Three bids were made for Screaming Colour before Pureprint was successful with its six-figure offer for the firm’s box making division.

Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford has invested £5.5m in a Gopfert HBL machine to boost its print capability along with material handling for its conversion production areas.