Printweek – 2024 in review: August

Cimpress filed record results… DS Smith CEO Miles Roberts called on the UK government to make the UK a more attractive place to invest by aligning with EU regulation… Full Circle completed an MBO of both companies in the group: Full Circle Exhibitions & Events and wide-format arm Psycho Peacock… The proposed £3.6bn takeover of Royal Mail’s parent company was called in for government review. In response, Communication Workers Union general secretary Dave Ward said the government ahould “robustly scrutinise the detail of this takeover offer”… Administrators were appointed at H Charlesworth & Co, which traded as Charlesworth Press, just eight weeks after the business merged with TJ Books. TJ Books subsequently bought Charlesworth’s business and assets… It was revealed that Gemini Print had an estimated deficiency of over £6m when it went into administration… Publishing house Hearst released a special edition Taylor Swift bookazine, printed by specialist short- and medium-run magazine printer Warners Midlands… DPS Digital merged with sister company Intervino… Industry veterans Steve Andrew, Andrew Crane and Jason Longley teamed up to form reseller business Jet Technology Group (Jet Tech) which has become Fujifilm’s first ‘Ultimate’ level partner… Micropress invested £500,000 in a new solar panel installation… Pontypridd sister companies Big Bang and DecTek simultaneously appointed liquidators and ceased trading. The two specialist printing firms entered liquidation on 13 August… RNB Group was sold after calling in advisers… An example of the largest-ever banknote usable as legal tender, a Filipino 100,000 Piso note, went up for auction at Mayfair’s Noonans auction house… eProductivity Software acquired US MIS specialist Enterprise Print Management Solutions…