Personalisation

Heathfield commercial printer Scantech has acquired Berforts South West and is set to begin relocating into its new subsidiary’s Hastings base to consolidate under one roof.

Moonpig will open a new technology hub in Manchester next month in order to “drive innovation in personalisation technology”.

Cimpress has acquired a majority stake in San Francisco-based apparel company Vida & Co in order to “push the boundaries” of what it can achieve in its target markets.

Photobox Group has acquired Greetz, the Dutch greetings card and personalised gifts giant, which it expects to increase sales of greetings cards across the group to up to 25 million this year.

Abbey Marketing Communications and Smart Technology Cards (STC) have collaborated in order to acquire plastic card manufacturer Brydian Cards and create a “complete package” in plastic card...

OKI will show its new Pro9000 Series Envelope Print System at Fespa in Berlin next week.

Transeo Media is set to make a rare trade show appearance when PrintWeekLive! takes over the Wasps Arena, Coventry, in March.

District Photo UK subsidiary Harrier LLC has launched a new personalised print platform, Pictabulous, which transforms photos into artwork.

Pureprint has completed a job using HP’s Mosaic personalisation software for 8,000 magazines with unique covers for Eye magazine.

Uteco Converting, Ebeam Technologies and Inx Digital International have joined forces to develop a new digital packaging line for the mass-personalisation of food packaging.

Qualvis Print & Packaging has scooped a major prize at the Leicester Mercury Business Awards.

Blackburn-based commercial printer Empine Print has launched Empine Education, a sub-brand, dedicated solely to printing for the education sector.