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St Ives wins Conservative Party print contract
The Conservative Party has awarded the contract for all of its print and print management requirements in the build up to the 2015 general election to St Ives.

Graphics and Print launches fantasy football league
Shropshire-based Graphics and Print is giving local football fans the chance to win big in its fantasy football league, while doing their bit for charity.

NS Print buys Horizon folding machine
North Shropshire Print Company (NS Print) has bought a Horizon AFC-566F automated B2 combination folding machine for 39,000.

Memjet stakes out ambitions in commercial print
Memjet aims to increase the life of its high-speed Waterfall inkjet print heads in order to take advantage of "huge" opportunities in the commercial print market.

Quark appoints Barriball as mobile product VP
Software giant Quark has named former chief executive and founder of UK-based Mobile IQ Shaun Barriball as vice president of mobile products.

Billingham Press invests in Shuttleworth MIS
Teesside-based Billingham Press has invested 27,000 in an integrated management information system (MIS) from Shuttleworth Business Systems.

Report: Landa to approach investors, fundraising puts $1bn price tag on Nanography
Landa has orders for 400 Nanographic presses and chairman Benny Landa is poised to embark upon a fundraising round for the venture, valuing it at up to $1bn, according to a report in the Israeli...

Laserline directors buy back business with newco I Am Print
Digital printer Laserline has been sold via a pre-pack administration to I Am Print, an affiliated web-to-print business set up by two Laserline directors in July, although it is hoped that there will...

Roland DG appoints Spandex as authorised UK dealer
Roland DG has appointed Spandex as a UK authorised dealer of its range of print-and-cut systems.

Fastsigns targets growth following successful 2012
Fastsigns Hammersmith is targeting the 500,000 turnover mark by the end of 2013 after a successful 10 months under new ownership.

Antalis McNaughton launches digital print website
Antalis McNaughton has launched digital2business.co.uk - a website for the digital print sector throughout Europe.

Trinity Mirror merges national and regional divisions
National newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has revealed the merger of its national and regional operations as well as a major management reshuffle and the scrapping of its daily deals site Happli.

AlphaGraphics North East wins "Xcellence Award" in Boston
AlphaGraphics North East (AGNE) won the "Xcellence Award" at the 2012 XMPie Users Group Conference, in Boston, last month.
Print industry news roundup: Kodak, Fespa Mexico, DS Smith, Xerox, Government, Antalis McNaughton
Stay up to date with your procurement supply chain thanks to print industry news at your fingertips. This week: Kodak publishes cashflow forecast; Fespa Mexico breaks attendance record; DS Smith and...

NIESR calls end to UK double-dip ahead of ONS Q3 GDP publication
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the past quarter, bringing the double-dip recession to an end, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has said.