Print buying

Communisis will be on the lookout for acquisition targets in the coming year after it announced an almost 90% increase in pre-tax profit, to 4.9m, in its preliminary results.

Asda has confirmed that its multimillion-pound point-of-sale contract, held by Bezier for more than 25 years, is to move to Delta Group.

Bluetree Design & Print has invested in a second HP Scitex FB7500 flatbed printer in a bid to increase its digital capacity.

BSkyB is to make dramatic reductions to its magazine work, dropping its bi-monthly Sky Movies and Sports magazines and cutting its monthly Sky Magazine to a quarterly frequency.

Print management firm Paperhat is on the hunt for acquisitions following the appointment of former Office2office (O2O) chief executive Ray Peck as its chairman.

Scottish printer FST Technologies has lost a contract to print transactional mail for satellite television company Sky.

Sustainable loyalty card scheme Ice has chosen Plastic Card Services (PCS) to produce cards for its inaugural UK project.

Woking printer Optichrome has been given a taste of the world of espionage after producing a fine art brochure and prints for MI6.

Nottingham design consultancy We Are Pure has helped movie rental company Blockbuster redesign the packaging for its range of ice cream as it moves from plastics to cardboard.