mergers & acquisitions 
One of Hawkes Bay’s oldest printing firms, Cliff Press Printers Ltd has changed hands after being run by three generations of one family and is currently selling off all its surplus assets and equipment, including four Jaguar cars collected by the owner Colin Wilson.
The Hastings company, which closed in late December is located in Hastings, and has been sold to another long established company, Fisher Print, of Fielding.

Colin continues a long family tradition of owning and running Jaguar vehicles since the late Noel Wilson bought his first European Jaguar in 1973. Four of Colin’s five Jaguars are up for auction and after the fifth one was sold as part of the Fisher Print deal which included the company’s 5-colour Lithrone Komori.

While Cliff Press’s printing facility has closed, Fisher Print has retained its name and a sales and design office in Hastings.

Fisher Print is a privately owned company that has been in operation for well over 100 years. It has a comprehensive print facility encompassing all aspects of commercial printing on one site with the capacity to produce digital print orders and offset printing from administrative stationery and business forms through to high end glossy magazine work.

Cliff Press has been a printer in Hawkes Bay since 1937. The company was originally founded by Earnie Cliff in 1906 and bought out by Noel Wilson and his partner in 1938.

Since then three generations of the Wilson family have been involved in the business. Colin Wilson is now retiring and has sold the printing factory to developers in Hastings who intend to set up Hawkes Bay’s first Jaguar agency. Surplus equipment is to be sold by March 31.