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A healthy Royal Mail is "vital to sustaining the universal service", Lord Mandelson has said after confirming plans to partially privatise the postal operator.

The new UK managing director of Punch Graphix has signalled that he intends to beef up the company by "doing more than just shifting boxes" and competing with "the inkjet boys".

Baxters the Printers has rounded off a 1m investment with a Stitchmaster ST 100 from Heidelberg to meet increased demand.

Audi UK has recorded particularly high responses to a personalised direct mail campaign thanks to "clever data handling" of customer information.

Devon County Council has put 11 print jobs on the line under plans to outsource print production and redirect print buying through its central procurement department.

Direct marketing agency Entire has launched a website to encourage media agencies, buyers and the wider industry to debate the definition of direct mail.

Steinbeis Papier has received the German Sustainability Prize for 2008, making it one of the top three most sustainable enterprises in Germany.

UPM Tilhill and property services company Savills have said the growing biomass market in the paper industry is having a positive impact on woodland values.

Ink Publishing has teamed up with Polestar Colchester to produce Virgin Rail Group's Hotline travel magazine.

Benson Group has acquired the order book and various trading assets of Cameron Linn in a last ditch-deal as the food packaging company was to be liquidated.

Pirelli has partnered with Beacon Press to print the 36th edition of its famed photographic calendar.

Manufacturing giant Heidelberg has sold all shares in Swedish mailroom specialist IDAB WAMAC to Schur International for an undisclosed amount, it has emerged.

A shake-up of the UK direct mail sector could move a step closer today with the expected announcement of a review that could see part of Royal Mail sold off to a private company.