Counting the cost of being bailed out
So, bar a few crossing of Ts and dotting of Is, Heidelberg has managed to secure the necessary funding that will secure its future. Phew. Imagine the meltdown that would have ensued had Heidelberg gone...
View ArticlePress manufacturers providing good copy of their own
KBA’s new president and CEO Helge Hansen certainly isn’t backward in coming forward with some forthright opinions. The sideswipes at Heidelberg came thick and fast in his commentary at KBA’s AGM last...
View ArticleHeidelman Rolandberg? The mind boggles
Fresh reports about the much-rumoured marriage of convenience between Heidelberg and manroland make it sound as if this potential coming together has now moved well beyond any initial fluttering of...
View ArticleDigital alliances the hot topic of the day
Well, there’s interesting. Here we are wondering when there will be some sort of announcement from Heidelberg about its plans to return to the digital market, and up pops Manroland with a deal to do...
View ArticlePerfect 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...
View ArticleManroland machinations
Speculation surrounding what will happen next at Manroland is throwing up some mind-boggling prospects. I read one report that mooted a solution involving a mega-merger between Manroland, Heidelberg...
View ArticleBig week for the future shape of press manufacturing
What a week this is shaping up to be in press manufacturer land. Yesterday Heidelberg, which is of course the world’s biggest company of this ilk, announced that it would be cutting a further 2,000...
View ArticleMists begin to clear at Manroland
New month, and a new era begins for what was Manroland. Administrator Werner Schneider met his deadline in having some sort of solution in place by the end of January. Well, at least a formative one....
View ArticleBrits on front foot, shock
“British company buys German engineering business”. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine we’d be writing a variant on that headline. That it’s a British company without any obvious connections to...
View ArticleHybrid future for newspaper printing?
I’m wondering if Axel Springer is providing some clues to the likely future shape of successful newspaper printing operations. It was super-interesting to visit the German publisher and printer’s...
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