- London-based design and print firm LightBrigade Media has been appointed by global fast food chain Just Falafel to develop its UK brand identity and printed media.
- Digital printing group PhotoBox has been awarded the top prize in the Digital Partnership at the Prince's Arts and Business Awards for its Face Britain initiative.
- A 6% decline in revenue from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday to £287m (2012: £305m) was partially offset by a surge MailOnline revenue in the six months to 31 March, DMGT said.
- A new report shows that small businesses in the UK are falling victim to online scams and viruses to the tune of £785m annually.
- Tangent Communications posted pre-tax profits of £860,000 for the 12 months to 28 February 2013, down from £1.45m in 2012, although revenue was up 11.8%.
- Mailing house Opus Trust Marketing has secured a 'multimillion-pound' contract to process all of energy company EDF's annual statements.
- The management team of Belgian pre-press group De Schutter Neroc (DSN) has concluded an MBO for an undisclosed sum and is eyeing growth across the UK.
- KBA has posted Q1 pre-tax losses of €18.8m (2012: - €0.4m) citing postponed orders and weak quarterly sales.
- Colour management developer GMG has unveiled the latest upgrade to its ColorServer software.
- Pitney Bowes has sold its mailroom and document management services businesses in the UK and Ireland to Swiss Post for an undisclosed sum.
- Sappi Fine Paper Europe has announced that it is to increase the prices of its speciality paper products by 6% from 1 July this year.
- Lord Young's latest report on boosting UK business calls for the abolition of PQQs on public sector contracts worth less than £200,000 and the removal of the Start-Up Loan scheme's age cap.
- Point-of-sale designer and manufacturer MJD is bedding in at its new facility in Corby, after expanding out of its Rutland headquarters.
- Circulation of quality dailies in April experienced a rare uplift as readers hit the newsstands to read coverage following the death of Margaret Thatcher.
- In an interim management statement, Johnston Press reported an increase in operating profit for the first time in seven years for the 18 weeks to 4 May 2013.
- The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has created a guide to help businesses tackle late payment and access to finance problems, which it is pitching first at printers.
- Publisher Condé Nast is to close the print edition of Easy Living despite the women's title achieving a 7.6% year-on-year increase in circulation to 150,854 in the second half of 2012.
- New government figures have revealed that lending to SMEs through its Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme is showing improvement.
- Kent-based Swan Mill Paper Company has been fined following an HSE investigation into an incident in which an employee was crushed by a forklift truck.
- Digital Imaging Services jetted to New York to install the British Fashion Council's London Show Rooms event at Manhattan's Industra Superstudio.
