An award-winning printing agency owned by two brothers who helped to find “Norfolk’s Mary Rose” has gone into liquidation.
Barnwell Print Ltd in Aylsham, Norfolk, had been owned by the Barnwell household since 1908.
It blamed “greater prices and decrease margins” for winding up the corporate.
The enterprise identify has been transferred to its competitor, Micropress Printers, based mostly in Reydon, Suffolk.
The chartered accountancy agency Larking Gowan – appointed to assist place Barnwell Print into Collectors’ Voluntary Liquidation – mentioned “all employees” had been made redundant.
Account particulars printed earlier this 12 months confirmed the corporate, which printed merchandise corresponding to books, magazines and brochures, employed 18 employees.
“Popping out of the pandemic with decrease gross sales, getting into a interval of upper prices with an vitality disaster and nonetheless making an attempt to function in a really aggressive market with decreased margins, has sadly proved to be an excessive amount of,” managing director Julian Barnwell mentioned.
“Nevertheless, we see Micropress as a superb match for us with their fashionable gear, continued multi million pound funding and powerful place within the market.”
The Barnwell household first began printing in Aylsham in 1908.
The corporate mentioned the Aylsham workplace would stay open to clients and all present work would proceed.
Julian and Lincoln Barnwell helped to find the shipwreck, the Gloucester in 2007 – nevertheless, particulars of the discover have been solely made public in 2022.
The royal ship sank off the coast of Norfolk in 1682 and nearly killed the the Duke of York, the long run King James II.
The brothers are a part of The Gloucester 1682 Charitable Belief – set as much as protect the wreck of the Gloucester and preserve its historic artefacts.
