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Who'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 the way of mega-news? Apart from all the new kit and new technology news from the manufacturers, an...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 04-30-2012
Keep an eye on Communisis

Gosh - 'Print plc in share price leap, shock'. Communisis' share price has increased by a third over the past ten days. The shares were trading at a heady 39p at the time of typing, and 123,000 shares had changed hands this morning. To put that into context, the 52 week low is 18.75p. What's...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-20-2012
Perfect storm capsizes Manroland

It is surely inconceivable that Manroland will not continue in some form. Surely??? That said, up until Friday it seemed inconceivable that this bastion of the German equipment engineering industry with a history stretching back more than 160 years would be allowed to fall into insolvency. It just shows...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 11-28-2011
Bringing in new profits, part 2

When I saw St Ives' results yesterday, and the big improvement in profitability therein, I thought "gosh, those high margin data businesses must be flying". Upon closer inspection that turned out not to be the case. More than 95% of St Ives' turnover in the last year came from print...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 10-05-2011
Bringing in new profits

It was encouraging to see Communisis' profits moving in the right direction in the group's recently-announced interim results. A 27% jump in operating profits is no mean feat in anyone's book, the caveat being that a chunk of this improvement, some £500,000, came from cutting corporate costs...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 08-16-2011
Toys for the big boys

Earlier this month I spent a day in Leeds, looking at the impressive array of digital print firepower at Communisis' Leeds facility, and hearing about the group's plans to ultimately migrate all of its high-volume litho print over to high-volume ink-jet . It was a perfect day out for a print...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 07-21-2011
Communisis costs clarity is welcome move

Good to see Communisis CEO Andy Blundell has streamlined the way the group reports its results, providing additional clarity in the process by doing away with the old ‘central costs' line that so irked me . Looking at the restated 2009 figures using the new segmentation into Intelligence Driven Communications...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 07-07-2010
Communisis central costs curiosity

Couple of additional observations on those Communisis numbers from last week. I don’t think I’m alone in finding the way they present their figures rather curious in parts. Whether this is a legacy of the Wallis/Jones era I’m not sure, although I do recall that Steve Vaughan made some changes to the...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 03-01-2010
HP prospering with head-start

Putting aside Communisis' results for a moment (in summary: horrible year, no surprise that Blundell et al have shoved everything possible into the last period that took place under Vaughan's watch), I did utter an audible "oooh" when I saw that the group has bought an HP inkjet web...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-26-2010
What will Wallis do next?

Just catching up on some interesting snippets from the past week, among which is the fact that Stuart Wallis has joined HH Associates as chairman, taking an equity stake in the print manager at the same time. Older readers may recall that Wallis, along with David Jones, was the brains behind the creation...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 09-16-2009

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