Print buying

Awesome Merchandise has smashed its crowdfunding target and has now entered an ‘overfunding’ phase.

YM Group is poised to roll out a new paper wrapping option for catalogue and magazine customers who want to move away from polywrap.

A further chunk of LWC paper capacity is set to disappear from the European market after Burgo announced plans to convert one of its paper machines to container board.

Printing of Hello! magazine has returned to the UK through a new deal inked with Liverpool gravure printer Prinovis.

Elle magazine has used recycled paper for the first time as part of a special edition devoted to encouraging sustainability in the fashion business.

A new free newspaper is set to launch on the Isle of Wight later this week.

SP Group ceased production earlier this week and the majority of workers at the business have now been made redundant.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Bell & Bain this week and met with apprentices at the Glasgow book printer.

G&H has sought protection from its creditors as it searches for a buyer to take over the business after suffering a six-figure bad debt.

Awesome Merchandise has launched a £350,000 crowdfunding initiative to help accelerate its expansion plans in the US and Europe.

Chief executive Andy Blundell has spoken out on the industry’s need to improve margins, as Communisis posted sales up 9% for the half-year alongside an increase in underlying operating profits.

Reach has posted a £113.5m half-year statutory pre-tax loss in the first six months of 2018 after taking a £150m charge on a “more challenging than expected outlook” for its regional businesses.