Haybrooke unveils price match feature; Smurfit Kappa in £5.5m spend; KM UK and Solimar partner; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Thursday 09 March 2023 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Quadient] [Today's top stories] [Haybrooke launches price match feature for PDQ]( [Haybrooke launches price match feature for PDQ]( Print procurement specialist Haybrooke has gone live with a new feature in its PDQ print buying platform that will allow printers to automatically match the price of their competitors. [Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford in £5.5m kit spend]( [Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford in £5.5m kit spend]( Smurfit Kappa Chelmsford has invested £5.5m in a Gopfert HBL machine to boost its print capability along with material handling for its conversion production areas. [New partnership for KM UK and Solimar]( [New partnership for KM UK and Solimar]( Konica Minolta has expanded its collaboration with Solimar Systems to include the UK. [New owner for Labelexpo]( Labelexpo has a new owner, after its parent group agreed at $900m-plus takeover deal from exhibitions and business intelligence giant Informa. [DS Smith updates on Q3 performance]( DS Smith has seen its profits grow again in its Q3 period after reporting a massive leap in profitability in the first half of the year. [Yesterday's most read] [UK GDPR replacement data laws unveiled]( [Print industry women speak up for IWD2023]( [Agfa revamp writ large in results]( [Blogs] [Printer's devil: it's in the detail]( Contributing editor Jo Francis muses on the latest goings on in the print industry. [In this issue] [The February and March issue is out now. Our ‘2023 Shortlist issue’ is jam-packed with the best the UK print industry has to offer as well as all the usual thought-provoking insights and the latest news and views...]( [Forward to a friend](mailto:?subject=Print%20industry%20news%20...&body=I%20thought%20you%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20newsletter%20from%20Printweek:%20%20 [Got some news? Email the PrintWeek newsdesk here](mailto:printweek.newsdesk@markallengroup.com) [PrintWeek jobs] [Project Coordinator - Signage & Large Format Graphics]( [Digital Production Scheduler & Print Finisher – Machine Box Making (Crayford Location)]( [Account Manager | Print Management & POS | South East]( [Account Development Manager]( [Sales Manager]( [See the latest jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary]( [VMC - back with a bang for the 10th anniversary]( The BPIF’s Visual Media Conference (VMC) event returns to Leeds’ Rose Bowl on 4 April 2023, for the first time in three years. [The protection racket]( [The protection racket]( Data protection issues are rarely far from the news. And as the recent ransomeware attack on Royal Mail in January illustrated, not only are they publicly embarrassing, they can be commercially disastrous both for the attacked organisation and its customers. [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( On the face of it, statistics released recently that revealed the number of skilled tradespeople working in the print sector fell by 73% between 2006 and 2021 seem alarming. [Product portfolio] [Star product: Serif Affinity Version 2]( A fully featured yet very low-cost challenger to Adobe’s Creative Suite – with Pantone swatch libraries. What’s not to like? [Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4]( A grant of £54,200 from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growing Business Fund helped to fund a new 3.2x2m flatbed/roll printer at CIM Signs & Graphics, a sign printing and installation specialist based just to the north of Norwich. © MA Business Limited 2023. [Contact Us]( [Advertising]( [Subscribe]( If you wish to unsubscribe from Printweek Daily News emails, please click [here](. To understand how we process, use & safeguard your data, please read our [Privacy Policy](. If you would like to update your marketing contact preferences, then please [click here](.