Is that it?
While in no way wishing to belittle the prospect of 150 people losing their jobs, my reaction to news of Polestar’s latest restructuring plan was ‘is that it?’ Chief exec Barry Hibbert has talked...
View ArticleThe go-to guys for short-grain
My Help Line files will need to be updated following York Mailing’s acquisition of Pindar’s web offset business. Who prints short-grain? Is one of those questions that pops up fairly regularly. The...
View ArticleWeb offset triple-whammy
For a fully-paid up member of the web offset watcher’s society, last week’s deluge of news was really something. The dust has barely begun to settle on the swathe of announcements from the ‘big three’...
View ArticleWho’ll be buying big at Drupa?
Given the amount of excitement that’s already emerged in the run-up to Drupa, with the latest announcements from Landa being a case in point, I wonder what else the show will have in store for us in...
View ArticleWeb offset watching, part 897
Am more than a little surprised – and intrigued – at news of David Holland’s retirement from Goodhead Group. Okay, so he’s 65. But there was really no hint of him hanging up his Powerpoint OEE charts...
View ArticleHead-scratching about Goodhead
While we await the white smoke to emit from Bicester, signalling some sort of resolution to the future ownership of Goodhead Group, I’m sitting here scratching my head about what shape this deal will...
View ArticleThis. Really. Is. It.
Right. This. Really. Is. It. Surely we have now definitely reached the tipping point in the UK web offset market. Sir John Madejski has thrown in the towel, after watching circa £100m go down the...
View ArticleWinning ways in web
What a super-interesting end-of-year it’s turning out to be in the world of web offset. Confirmation that York Mailing is to invest in a big new press for its Pindar Scarborough site is noteworthy on a...
View ArticleSomething old, something new…
What’s the best investment strategy? Buy new kit or make the most of what you’ve got? I noticed with interest that a lively debate on this topic had broken out in the comment trail on our story about...
View ArticlePolestar excites strong opinion. Again.
You know that old superstition about bad things coming in threes? Polestar seemed to be having one of those happenings last week. First, the group found itself making an appearance in the Sunday Times’...
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