Printweek – 2024 in review: June

The Delta Group’s announced that its new digital-only Bishop’s Stortford ‘supersite’ would be operational in Q3 2024… Commercial printer Gemini ceased trading on 3 June. Administrators were duly appointed on 10 June… Meliora Group announced plans to bring its operations – Delga, digital labels firm Delga Labels, commercial printer Scarbutts and specialist commercial printer CSP – under a single roof… Print workers at Envases Liverpool, an industrial metal canister manufacturer, voted to take strike action after the firm required them to accept new contracts or be dismissed… Solopress signed for an HP Indigo 120K at Drupa… Stock worth £250,000 were sold at auction as administrators wound up flexible packaging firm Surepak… Voters in Teesside were sent polling cards without the official names of polling stations, in a “printing error” that affected around 100,000 residents. 96,572 polling cards had to be reprinted and resent… Bakers signed deals with HP and Durst at Drupa totalling £2.2m… Paragon client development director Nick Barbeary announced he would retire at the end of June… In2Print acquired its neighbour, Color Co Cheltenham… Wilkins Group returned from Drupa with the new “all the bells and whistles” Komori GLX-740+CC Advance EX exhibited at the show… The management team at Roland DG succeeded in acquiring a majority stake in the business after increasing their offer… Web printer Vanacomm and catalogue retailer Direct Response Marketing Group teamed up to acquire The Mailshop’s assets… TJ Books and Charlesworth Press announced they were to join forces and form Fortis Print Group… Indigo and Landa Digital Printing founder Benny Landa warned of the “existential threat” to the Israel economy because of the Israel-Gaza war… Royal Mail owner International Distribution Services was served with an £878m collective action claim relating to its anti-competitive behaviour in the bulk mail market… CCS McLays acquired TPSG Procurement… Ricoh went retro with the launch of a new compact film camera, the Pentax 17… A Royal Mail postman was caught on camera defacing Reform UK leaflets before posting them through voters’ letterboxes…