News

A newspaper price war looks likely after major cuts in the cover prices of four national dailies this week.

Field Lithoprint is moving into a new facility as part of a 3.5m expansion involving more staff and a cutting-edge press.

Smurfit Kappa has announced plans to close unprofitable plants, which could lead to hundreds of jobs being cut in the UK.

Prolitho has invested 1.5m in a five-colour B1 Heidelberg Speedmaster press.

Johnston Press is spending 500,000 on technotrans hydraulic ink-pumping systems for its Sheffield and Portsmouth sites.

Quark has announced the release of the first QuarkXPress version to run on both Intel and Power PC-based Macs.

BT is to move production of <i>The Phone Book</i> overseas for the first time in its history, placing a number of jobs at risk at its printer Benhamgoodheadprint (BGP) in Colchester.

Following the fall of crisp manufacturer Golden Wonder into administration this week, sole flexible packaging supplier Amcor Flexibles is confident that it has no exposure to bad debt.

A gloomy outlook is predicted for the print industry over the next few months, according to the latest <i>Directions</i> survey from the BPIF.

St Ives has been tipped as a top target for private equity (PE) companies by Morgan Stanley.

Polestar Sheffield and Chantry have together printed 1m copies of ACP-NatMags new title <i>Real People</i>.

Two of the biggest names in print have started the new year with new jobs.

Highbury House is putting all of its magazines up for sale having failed to trade its way out of a crushing 29.5m debt.

HH Associates has awarded York Mailing a bumper new Post Office printing contract to produce a magazine with one of the largest circulations in the UK.

Packaging manufacturer Field Boxmore Healthcare has proposed closing of its Bedford factory, causing an expected 87 redundancies.