Sainsbury’s has announced its “biggest single plastics removal” yet by putting its fresh mushrooms into cardboard trays.

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.

A director of a business specialising in personalised sweets and other edible items has been barred for a decade for claiming a taxpayer-backed Bounce Back Loan on false pretences.

Two Claverley Group subsidiaries have merged as the group looks to expand its publishing portfolio.

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.

Communisis has gone into administration with parts of the business immediately sold to a new owner, but more than half its workforce has been laid off.

Chair of the Strategic Mailing Partnership and Nutshell Creative managing director Lucy Swanston believes there’s real scope in 2024 for printers to capitalise on the forecast growth in retail media...

David McGuiness, marketing manager at PrintIQ, believes there will be more acquisitions and amalgamations of companies in the print sector in 2024.

Our annual round-up of all the big news stories from the past 12 months – October.

IPIA general manager Brendan Perring expects personalised high-value print campaigns, direct mail and large-format print markets to perform well again in 2024.