London-based print marketing communications business Paperhat Group has acquired Bulgarian digital specialist Despark for an undisclosed sum.

Sign-making firm Hawes Signs has laid off 57 workers and proposed a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) after losing almost £3m worth of business in less than two years.

The BPIF has released its latest Printing Outlook study of the health of the industry, highlighting that while orders in the fourth quarter of 2014 experienced a strong improvement over Q3, optimism...

Women’s weeklies and lifestyle titles have continued to experience a year-on-year circulation decline in the six months to December 2014, according to the latest report from the Audit Bureau of...

Magazine and commercial printer The Color Company (Cheltenham) has invested around £300,000 in a Heidelberg Stahlfolder BH 56 and a Muller Martini stitching line.

Kevin Dunstall’s newest venture involves a publishing company that prints tens of thousands of magazines a month.

Independent manufacturer and supplier of coatings and pressroom consumables Ultrachem has launched Safe to Touch Print emulsion (water-based) coatings.

The Stationers’ Company has launched this year’s Innovation Excellence Awards and is hoping to double the number of entries of last year’s inaugural awards.

Commercial printer On Demand has signed a five-year contract for Agfa’s new Azura TE direct-on-press plate in an agreement that also includes a new Avalon N4 platesetter.

Environment minister and North Cornwall MP Dan Rogerson has praised KCS Print for its continued success during a recent visit to its Launceston factory.

Smith & Ouzman sales and marketing director Nick Smith has been sentenced to three years in jail following an SFO investigation into corrupt payments made by the company.