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London-based print management firm Bergamot has been bought by GMAB Holdings for an undisclosed sum.

New Jarrold Printing (NJP) has received outline permission for an alternative superplant site at Ellough, near Beccles.

After 28 years of providing teenagers with pop star tittle-tattle and posters to plaster their walls, the UK publishing sensation that was <i>Smash Hits</i> has closed.

A private equity firm has made its first play for the print market, snapping up Borcombe SP.

Amicus GPMS members at Quebecor World in Corby have voted to accept the firms planned 6m cost savings.

Tag has made around 75 redundancies following the consolidation of the PRS and Admagic businesses it bought from Vertis at the end of last year.

William Reed has put out a tender document to consolidate its roster of web and sheetfed printers for its titles.

Newcastle-based Potts Printers has invested around 1.3m in its first MAN Roland press, a B1706 LV.

Harlands has gained a global food packaging hygiene standard for both its UK and Polish operations, allowing it to enter new markets.

Following the recent down-sizing of magazines and newspapers, the latest trend is for publishers to launch snack-sized mobile phone publications to boost print sales.

CGI Group has bought the USs fourth largest financial printer, ADP Graphic Communications, part of the ADP Brokerage Services Group, creating a 86m turnover operation.

Paper and packaging group Smith Anderson has restructured its board and reported a 2.2m operating loss for 2005.

New Jarrold Printing (NJP) has received outline permission for an alternative superplant site at Ellough, near Beccles.

Xants latest digital colour press, the Ilumina, has been released onto the UK market at an aggressive price.

New Jarrold Printing (NJP) has hit back at rumours that its new 40m printing plant (artist's impression pictured) will never be built.