Printweek – 2024 in review: April

Royal Mail submitted its proposals for reform of its Universal Service Obligation, including changes to bulk mail and Second Class delivery frequencies… Prodigi acquired Amsterdam-based cloud printing specialist Peecho… The Arden Group acquired Lasercomb Dies… Folio Print Finishing was sold in a pre-pack deal to a second company owned by its directors, ATB – Folio Print & Packaging Solutions Ltd… Nottingham Trade Finishers ceased trading, blaming soaring costs… The business and assets of Celloglas, the UK’s biggest multi-site print finishing specialist, were put up for sale… Rotterdam labels specialist Royal Sens acquired 100% of Birkenhead-based label producer Tipografic… Officers from Essex Police arrested two men at a printing workshop in Wickford who have been charged with conspiring to make counterfeit banknotes… Hundreds of items of printing, post-press and ancillary kit from the shuttered Communisis sites in Leeds and Liverpool were sold at auction… Xerox called time on its iGen5 and Nuvera digital presses… Eight Group teamed up with Crawford Technology Consulting to acquire creative digital marketing agency Marketlayer… The MBO team hoping to acquire Roland DG lodged an increased offer for the business that was higher than the rival bid from Brother Industries… Celloglas filed a Notice of Intention to Appoint Administrators… Reader’s Digest UK came to an end after 86 years. Editor-in-chief Eva Mackevic blamed the “financial pressures” for the closure…