Page 40 - PWM2024_January EBook

NEWS GLOBAL

IN BRIEF CFH Docmai installs

Direct mail platform
Stannp.com plans to scale
up its US operations sig-
nificantly in 2024 after Canon VarioPrint iX
doubling its US revenue to
$10m (£7.9m). The North
Devon-headquartered Direct and hybrid mailing helped the firm to pursue
business, which has a firm CFH Docmail has growth in its hybrid market-
930sqm warehouse and
new 537sqm office space installed a brand-new Canon ing business. While CFH’s
in Barnstaple, as well as a 167sqm office in Denver, VarioPrint iX3200 at its flagship product is direct and
Colorado, said it currently generates leads in the US at a Radstock site. The inkjet hybrid mail, the company
rate of four times as many as it does in the UK. The busi- press will work alongside
ness has doubled its total headcount to 72 – including 11 also prints commercially in
people in the US – and is set to record an overall turnover CFH’s existing ColorStream digital and litho, with cus-
of around £19.5m this year. It has also found itself in the 6900 at the Somerset factory tomers across health, finan-
national headlines, with The Independent running an – one of three CFH sites in Capable of 320 images per minute cial and local government
article earlier this week about CEO Sam Heaton’s decision
to leave the London rat race to start the business, with a the UK – to bolster the firm’s ductivity – helping cut sectors, including for elec-
particular focus on the company’s US growth after it web-to-print capacity and energy usage and free up toral print.
expanded into Denver 18 months ago. The company is also print efficiency. Replacing manpower. Steve Cray, CFH’s group
aiming to offer “more of a programmatic solution”
several older toner machines, The press is CFH’s second production director, said:
Nottingham’s Wilkins the iX3200, which prints at iX3200, with the order spe- “We’re delighted to continue
Group has lit up Marks 320 images per minute with cifically placed off the back of our long-standing relation-
and Spencer’s Christmas an uptime of over 90%, has a successful installation at ship with Canon and con-
booze selection again,
this time with a bespoke helped CFH reduce its fleet the firm’s Livingstone factory tinue to invest in commercial
wrapped print for a new size while maintaining pro- in Scotland, which has printing platforms.
range of festive liqueurs.
The new range – stollen
rum, vodka berry, and Bluetree buys B1 Landa S10P
marmalade gin – have been launched as a festive treat to
bolster consumers’ Christmas spirits. Briefed by M&S to Bluetree Group has majority of work going need to invest to ensure that
produce a bottle that could outshine the retailer’s best- we can produce at the high-
selling ‘snow globe’ light-up gin bottles of the past three ordered a second B1 Landa through the new seven-col- est quality and lowest unit
years, Wilkins came up with a brand-new wrapping tech- S10P press to support activ- our press will come from
nique for the bottles, which features a swing ticket and ity at its Route 1 Print and Bluetree’s online trade cost. The first Landa press
distinctive LED inset in the base of the bottle. The Kingsbury Press subsidiar- brand, Route 1 Print. It will has fitted seamlessly into our
360-degree wrap-around label uses a transparent sub- be integrated into the work- workflow and has given us a
strate and bespoke adhesive to attach the label, instead of ies. The move, which comes lot more flexibility around
traditional shrink-film processes. The finished design five years after Route 1 flow alongside the firm’s what we can offer to our
nods to the traditional Christmas motif of the pinecone, ordered the UK’s first S10P, existing S10P, maintaining a resellers.”
appearing in silver, copper and gold. continuous flow from cus-
is part of a broader £5m Investment has come after
The supervisory board of investment in its book print- tomer upload to printing. seeing strong growth in its
Koenig & Bauer has ing division. It will bolster James Kinsella, Bluetree perfect-bound book business,
appointed Andreas Pleßke the firm’s capabilities in lux- Group co-CEO, explained:
to the position of CEO and “The print market is highly which are printed as blocks
Stephen Kimmich as dep- ury and layflat book printing competitive, and to support before being run through the
uty CEO, both with effect as well as stitched and per- the print resellers we serve firm’s Kolbus KM600 bind-
from 1 January 2024. The fect-bound booklets. The through Route 1 Print we ing line.
changes were decided at
the supervisory board’s
of Koenig & Bauer’s management board since 2014 and ESP acquires Goldcrest Group
meeting on 7 December 2023. Pleßke has been a member
spokesman for the management board with responsibil-
ity for the Special segment since 2021. A Koenig & Bauer Swindon-based Handel diversity to the group’s out-
spokesperson told Printweek that by being appointed CEO, Group, parent company to put, with specialities in wide-
Pleßke’s voice “will have more weight within this board”, format housebuilding
which speeds up the decision-making processes. Kimmich ESP Colour, has acquired the signage and adhesive labels
has been CFO since 2020. There are no changes to the three companies of
responsibilities of the other members of the management Goldcrest Group, doubling respectively.
board, which comprises Christoph Müller, responsible for its digital business and add- ESP had been investing in
the Digital and Webfed segment; Ralf Sammeck, responsi- wide-format already – with
ble for the Sheetfed segment; and COO Michael Ulverich. ing wide-format and label Deal was inked in October three Canon Colorados now
ting and a host of converting techniques to its repertoire. printing to its roster. inked in October, saw purchased from supplier
Similarly, the contract durations continue to apply Handel’s purchase of Severn Handel – headed up by direc- CMYUK, the most recent in
unchanged, and the supervisory board has not taken any Print, Jaffre, which trades as May 2023 – but the
further decisions regarding the composition of the man- tors Simon Smogur, Samuel
agement board. Raimund Klinkner, chairman of the Interprint, and Goldcrest Purchase, and Ben Forsey – Interprint purchase repre-
supervisory board, said Pleßke and Kimmich had success- Labels has taken the group to take on 80 employees. sents a significant step for-
fully guided the company with their colleagues over the £33m turnover with around Interprint and Goldcrest ward for the group’s
past few years.
220 employees. The deal, Labels have added a new capabilities.
38 PrintWeek MENA January 2024 www.printweekmena.com