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There has been a "notable" increase in the availability of finance for factoring and invoice discounting and for overdrafts over the past three months, a CBI survey has found.

An NHS-funded study has estimated that smokers cost British companies in excess of 2bn a year.

Four of transpromo specialist DST Output's largest clients have signed contract renewals, including the mobile communications provider Orange.

Interest rates have remained unchanged at 0.5% following this month's meeting of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.

DST International Output (DSTi), the Bristol-based transpromo specialist, has rebranded as DST Output in order to reinforce its affiliation with its US-based sister company of the same name.

Nationwide print franchiser Call Print has moved to complete 24-hour production at its Birmingham plant, following an investment in booklet-making kit and a guillotine from Graphic Arts Equipment.

Security printer Kalamazoo Secure Solutions is to move to larger site following a 2.5m investment.

Gurdev Singh is to leave his role as managing director of Howitt to rejoin Communisis, six years after first leaving the company.

F1 Colour has recruited former Wyndeham Masterpiece business development manager Paul Brazil, who has been appointed to the same position at the Southwark-based pre-press and print management company.

Trade union Unite has claimed that some employers are "taking advantage" of the recession to force pay cuts and warned of industrial action to fight any unsubstantiated claims by companies.

Soft proofing was top of the agenda at the latest quarterly meeting of the Digital Ad Lab (DAL), with case studies from Bauer Consumer Media and BBC Magazines (BBCM).

Independent software provider StudioRIP has signed a European distribution agreement with Italian screenprinting specialist Grafco for a new variant of its recently-released StudioRIP 3.0.