Results

DS Smith doubles pre-tax profits

DS Smith has doubled its pre-tax profits to £167m and reported a 10% rise in sales to £4bn in its full 2013/14 results.

Domino returns to profit, but shares tumble

Shares in Domino Printing Sciences, the coding & marking and inkjet printing specialist, closed at £6.15, a drop of 16.7% that wiped £140m off its market capitalisation on the release of its interim...

Grafenia to roll out cross-media platform to help combat falling sales

Printing.com parent Grafenia is poised to launch a new cross-media platform for franchisees later this year, which it hopes will help combat falling revenues in its traditional print franchise...

Communisis announces 75 job cuts due to declining direct mail volumes

Communisis has announced that it will reduce the headcount at its Cross Gates Leeds facility by around 75 as a response to declining direct mail volumes.

Paperlinx losses fall by a third, but group revises full year profitability prediction

Paperlinx has published its half-year results, which show that the paper merchanting group’s restructuring efforts are continuing to bear fruit albeit at a slower pace than it had hoped.

Domino aiming to triple inkjet label press installs

Domino is looking forward to a better year in 2014 after closing the book on its failed investment in egg coding venture Ten Media.

Results bear out a radical restructure

It is 2009 and St Ives' chief executive Patrick Martell, who joined the group as an apprentice in 1980, is giving his first major interview since taking the reins in April of the worst year in the...

Confidence crisis is print's opportunity

In tough times, marketing budgets are typically the first to be squeezed. And this, as any printer working with marketers will tell you, has certainly held true over the past few years.

Closing sales is not about performing hat tricks

"How many people spent an hour last week practising sales?" I am sat in an introductory session for training organisation Franklin's Covey's new sales course, and co-practice leader Craig...

Paperlinx reduces losses and targets profitability in 2014

Paperlinx has recorded a loss of A$90.2m (52m) in its full-year results, a significant improvement on the loss of A$266.7m in 2011/2012.

Antalis owner hit by weak demand and prices as losses quadruple

Sequana, the French paper group that owns Arjowiggins and Antalis, has reported a sales slump of 9% in the first half of 2013, citing a "sharp decline in demand for printing papers in Europe".

EFI logs record quarterly growth

EFI has recorded a record quarter in Q2, with sales growing 10% year-on-year to $180.3m (118m) and operating profit growing 19% to $23.4m.