HMRC launches £140m tender; Sappi mill sale off; Mail strike hopes raised; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Monday 17 April 2023 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Quadient] [Today's top stories] [HMRC launches £140m comms tender]( [HMRC launches £140m comms tender]( HMRC has gone live with a mega combined input and output communications tender worth up to £140m that is likely to result in a reduction of its print output but still encompasses print requirements. [Sappi's mega mill sale is off]( [Sappi's mega mill sale is off]( Sappi’s deal to sell three European mills to Aurelius Group is off after the transaction failed to complete. [Hopes for agreement between CWU and Royal Mail]( [Hopes for agreement between CWU and Royal Mail]( An end could be in sight to the long-running dispute at Royal Mail. [PitStop boosted with 2023 update]( Enfocus’ PDF pre-flight, editing, and correction software PitStop will be updated next month with a raft of new enhancements. [De La Rue chairman stands down]( De La Rue chairman Kevin Loosemore has resigned after a torrid period for the group and a campaign by activist investor Crystal Amber Fund to oust him from the role. [Samedaybags launches new clothing site]( On-demand promotional bag printer Samedaybags.com has launched a new website offering t-shirts, hoodies, and other promotional clothing delivered within 24 hours. [Yesterday's most read] [Update awaited in Royal Mail dispute]( [Firm fined after forklift incident]( [Liquidators take charge at Ashgate]( [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] [Account Executive | POS | Manchester]( [Digital Print & Wide Format Operative]( [Technical Sales Manager - Inks.]( [Managing Director | Labels & Flexible Packaging | Germany | Stuttgart]( [Bid Manager | Print Management – Promotional Products – European Contracts | UK based – Hybrid Worki]( [See the latest jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [Offering a helping hand]( [Offering a helping hand]( Not for decades have we all been under so much pressure financially. Rising energy bills, relatively high mortgage rates, food prices on the increase, and to cap it all, a tax burden that is at a 70-year peak – there is real pain being felt. [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](.