News UK confirms supplement deal; Easily Converted eyes growth; IG warns on write-downs; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Thursday 20 April 2023 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Quadient] [Today's top stories] [News UK seals supplement deal with Walstead]( [News UK seals supplement deal with Walstead]( Walstead Group has confirmed it has won the contract to produce the News UK supplements currently printed at Prinovis in Liverpool. [Digital label conversion kit supplier Easily Converted eyes growth]( [Digital label conversion kit supplier Easily Converted eyes growth]( A burgeoning UK supplier of digital label converting machinery has detailed a recent major sale and shared its growth aspirations. [IG Design Group warns on write-downs]( [IG Design Group warns on write-downs]( Shares in IG Design Group fell by more than 10% after the greetings, crafting and stationery specialist warned of significant write-downs due to “deteriorated trading”. [Stora Enso lowers guidance due to market uncertainty]( Stora Enso has revised its guidance for 2023 and said its operational EBIT is now expected to be “significantly lower” than for 2022 due to the worsening outlook. [Berger Textiles to launch new architecture range at Fespa]( Specialist textiles supplier Berger Textiles will launch a raft of products at Fespa Global Print Expo in Munich in May, including its new Architecture portfolio. [Yesterday's most read] [Jobs to go as James Cropper cuts paper production]( [Death linked to mill outbreak]( [Hopes for agreement between CWU and Royal Mail]( [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] [Allrounder - Large Format]( [Account Manager]( [Finishing Supervisor - Litho and Digital Print]( [Digital Printer / Designer - Signs and Graphics]( [Shop Floor Manager - Large Format/Graphics]( [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](.