Dundee-based wide-format print specialist Tayprint has gone into liquidation, with all 21 staff having been made redundant. Seven of those staff have now been taken on by Tradeprint, which is also completing work in progress from when Ken Pattullo and Kenny Craig of Begbies Traynor were appointed as joint liquidators on 26 August.
Begbies Traynor said Tayprint’s financial difficulties had been exacerbated by the impact of the Covid pandemic and that it is in the process of realising any assets to provide the best return for creditors.
Anthony Rowell, sales and customer success director at Tradeprint, which is based on the same industrial estate as family-run Tayprint, said it is currently in talks with the liquidator about taking on some of the print kit, but pointed out that much of it was leased. The company already has other wide-format kit on order too.
“This is a sad situation for Tayprint, but it’s manna from heaven for us in that we are an expanding business and recruiting the right people was proving difficult. We have already taken on Tayprint staff across sales, pre-press, print production and finishing, and we’re still counting.
Rowell pointed out that Tradeprint had for some time been renting part of the Tayprint factory to house large-format HP printers and a Zund cutter it acquired from its sister company, and that the companies “were more than part of each other’s supply chain”.
“We have been working very closely together and are very pleased to be taking on Tayprint staff, and hopefully customers, as we expand our site and our offering,” said Rowell. He said the company expects to double it’s 20,000 sq ft site by the end of the year after earlier acquiring next-door premises that are currently being remodelled. The company already has wide-format kit on order.
