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Kirklees Council has awarded Xerox a five-year contract to supply the Yorkshire local authority with high-volume digital kit to its new Document Solutions centralised print and mailing centre.

Chancellor Alistair Darling this morning announced a fund of 4bn to be made available to businesses, which he claimed restored credit levels to that of 2007.

B2 Printer B&B Press has said that investing in a new card cutter has been just as important as a 1m spend that preceded it.

Heidelberg is to cut up to 2,500 jobs in a bid to reduce its annual costs by around 200m euros (157.8m) by 2010/2011.

Press manufacturer KBA has claimed that the door is open for printers wanting to print newspapers overnight and continue producing commercial work during the day.

Nipson Digital Printing, the manufacturer of the VaryPress, has placed its main operating subsidiary into the Redressment Judiciare, the French equivalent of administration.

Only 20% of companies have purchasing departments in control of the marketing budget, according to research by HH Associates and the Aberdeen Group.

Charterhouse has announced plans to setup a new office in Zurich, Switzerland following a recent contract win with Renault Switzerland.

Gemini Press, Shoreham, has invested in a new Varimatrix 105 die-cutter from Heidelberg.

Communisis has announced an historic partnership with arch-rival Williams Lea in its interim management statement today, in which it revealed that the two are working together on the HBOS contract.

Autobond has revealed the reason why its Mini Laminator was missing from the Chicago Graph Expo show.

Printoff Graphic Arts has achieved environmental standard ISO 14001 as part of plans to become FSC-accredited later this year.

Environmental guidance agency Netregs has said that 32% of SMEs fail to have any environmental policies or systems in place, and are "unlikely to develop them in the future".