Wide-format

XBM has used a £1.8m loan from NatWest to buy a new head office and warehouse – doubling the size of its current Leeds headquarters and creating over 45 new jobs.

While it wasn’t all bad news, festive cheer was in short supply in December’s listicle and the ramifications of some of the biggest stories are likely to be felt well into 2024.

A mother of two young sons has won the ‘World’s Biggest Selection Box’ printed by Lancashire’s Envision Media and Grafit Display Hire.

Leach recently won and carried out a contract to supply and install the graphics for both of luxury British brand Swaine’s stores.

Bradford-based Dominion Print took home the manufacturing prize at the Yorkshire and Humberside Family Business Awards last month.

Swindon-based Handel Group, parent company to ESP Colour, has acquired the three companies of Goldcrest Group, doubling its digital business and adding wide-format and label printing to its roster.

Full-service event supplier Showlite has been acquired by the managing directors of wide-format printer Ottimo Digital.

Administrators from FRP Advisory have now been formally appointed at PFI Group’s Works Manchester operation.

Employees at Works Manchester have been sent home, with the future for the business unclear.

DS Smith has installed a high-spec Bickers Gluejet gluing plotter at its Ely operation – the sixth Gluejet device at the site.