Print buying

Inspired Thinking Group has been acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital in a £28m deal.

Artisan Press has entered into a consultation with Unite and workers at its factory over proposed job cuts that could affect almost a third of its workforce.

IPC Media has handed its multi-million pound print contract to a single supplier, in a move that has far-reaching ramifications for the UK magazine printing supply chain.

Adare has installed two new Xerox presses as part of a digital printing, enclosing and software technology refresh at its Park Mill headquarters in Huddersfield.

Marks & Spencer has moved to ensure some of the greetings card production handled on its behalf by Hallmark will remain in the UK.

EVC Graphic Design and Print has entered Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation resulting in the redundancies of all 22 staff.

Cost-saving strategies helped deliver a 2.6% increase in adjusted pre-tax profit to £101.3m for newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, in its financial results for the year ending 29 December 2013.

Greetings card giant Hallmark UK has announced that it is to outsource its printing and manufacturing operations, currently based in Dawson Lane, Bradford, with the potential loss of up to 300 jobs.

A printer has been ordered to repay £135,000 for VAT fraud or serve 32 weeks in prison.

Tangent Communications has announced a 20% increase in its like-for-like underlying operating profit for the 12-months to 28 February 2014.