Job losses at printshop

THE workforce of a Tayside printing firm has been told up to 50 staff will be made redundant.

Tradeprint, which operates from two sites in Dundee, has started a consultation process after a slump in orders. The company opened in the city in 1997 and employs 164 staff, of which 125 were furloughed.

Sales dipped as low as 10% of normal levels as some of its business customers stopped trading and events were cancelled. Managing director Charlene Douglas said the drop in revenues meant redundancies were an “unavoidable last resort”.

She said: “More than 70% of our customers are trade customers – some have already gone out of business due to shop closures.”

After a £2.8 million loss last year, Tradeprint was moving towards profitability before Covid-19 hit.