中文There is a quiet kind of heartbreak in watching an old name disappear. Integrity Print can trace its roots back 110 years, to 1916, when the Standard Check Book Company first opened its doors. Generations of British businesses mailed things out on its forms. And as of 5 October 2026, that name is being retired — folded into a younger sibling, Integrity Connect, to become one unified business.
Before anyone gets sentimental, this is not a failure. It is a strategy. And it tells us a lot about where print is actually heading.
One door, not ten
The Bath-based Integrity Communications Group turned over £70m last year and employs around 400 people. It has long been a patchwork of specialised brands — labels, security print, communications, and more. Integrity Print handled the print and personalisation side. Integrity Connect, launched back in 2020, bundled web-to-print, secure hybrid mail, inbound services and document automation under one roof.
The two already shared clients. They were, in the words of the people running them, doing the same dance from different rooms. So the group decided to stop making customers walk through ten doors when one would do.
Richard Maunder, sales and marketing director at Integrity Connect, put it plainly: customers increasingly want “one trusted partner that can support the complete communication journey.” Not a printer here, a mail house there, a fulfilment shop somewhere else. One throat to choke, as the old sales saying goes — except framed nicely.
Why this is bigger than one company
Step back and you see the same story playing out across the industry. The print companies that are thriving are not the ones bragging about their presses. They are the ones quietly becoming infrastructure — the invisible layer that handles a brand’s statements, mailings, kits, and personalised comms without the client ever thinking about it.
For a small business owner, that is a relief. You do not want to become an expert in substrate weights and postal regulations. You want to send the thing and have it arrive. Consolidation like this is the market’s way of saying: let us carry the complexity so you can carry on running your business.
There is an emotional side too. A 110-year-old name vanishing feels like a small piece of industrial heritage being quietly archived. But the people at Integrity would tell you the soul of the company — the craft, the reliability — is not going anywhere. It is just wearing a different badge. The production site near Bath, all 16 acres of it, keeps running. The service levels the clients know are promised to stay.
What it means for you
If you are a print buyer, a marketer, or a converter, watch this space. The trend toward “one partner, full journey” is accelerating, and it is reshaping how jobs get priced and won.
First, expect fewer, bigger vendors. As brands merge their needs, the print houses that survive will be the ones who can say yes to everything — print, personalise, mail, fulfil, report. If your shop only does one of those, the writing is on the wall.
Second, the website shutdown matters. Integrity Print’s site will eventually go dark, redirecting to the Connect brand. If you have bookmarks, saved quotes, or automated reorder links pointed at the old domain, fix them now. Small details like that are where consolidated relationships quietly break.
Third, use this as a prompt to audit your own supplier stack. How many vendors does it take to get one campaign out the door? If the answer is more than two, you are carrying risk and cost that a unified partner would happily absorb.
The bigger picture
We should not romanticise consolidation. Mergers create winners and casualties, and not every employee or client lands softly. But the direction of travel is clear, and Integrity’s move is a tidy case study in reading it.
The companies that win the next decade will not be the ones with the most impressive machinery. They will be the ones who made themselves indispensable by removing friction. One brand. One login. One accountable partner. That is the future Integrity is betting on — and a 110-year-old name just made the sacrifice to get there.
For the wider trade, the lesson is uncomfortable but useful: legacy is not a moat. A century of history counts for nothing if the customer has to make five phone calls to get one job done. Integrity’s answer was to simplify itself out of existence under a single, clearer banner. It is a move more printers should be brave enough to consider.
For competitors watching from the sidelines, the message is blunt: customers are rewarding simplicity, not scale. The printer who can say “we’ll handle the whole journey” will keep the account that the specialist loses to a dozen handoffs. Integrity just made that bet explicit, and the rest of the trade should be taking notes.
Source: Printweek (19 October 2026)
