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Frozen food brand Findus has appointed Print Design & Graphics (PDG) to manage the supply of its cartons for its frozen foods and ready meals to its Newcastle factory.

Duplo International has struck a deal to market a range of digital short-run bookbinding machinery for the first time in the UK.

TPL made two-thirds of its workforce redundant on 8 April, a decision that GPMU officials have branded as appalling.

Astron has bought Edotech for 130m in what Astron chief executive David Mitchell has dubbed a transforming acquisition.

Liverpool-based company CDMS has clinched a 1.5m print management deal with Littlewoods Football Pools.

Howitt has strengthened its sales team with three new appointments, but has parted company with operations director Dave Weiss and human resources director Keeley Hemmings.

Polestars bottom line loss was 42m last year, and the groups FRS17 pension deficit has ballooned to 137m, just-filed figures reveal.

The Print Factorys new 2m transactional print and direct mail facility is on course for its opening next week (PrintWeek, 25 March).

The GPMUs executive council is due to consider formal legal documents within the next month, as its merger with manufacturing union Amicus progresses (PrintWeek, 12 February).

Despite a drop in revenues and profits in the first quarter Oc said that a recovery in the sales of hardware due to new product launches would continue and lead to a rise in consumables sales.

An introductory course on paper, print and publishing, which will start in October is, one of the first initiatives from the IP3, the recently merged Institutes of Paper, Printing and Publishing.

Nur will show a prototype at Drupa of a 5m wide ink-jet printer, the first of that size to use UV-cured inks, which it claims will revolutionise the super-wide sector.

St Ives sales fell by 6.3% at the half-year stage, and despite a modest improvement in underlying profitability the group has warned that pricing has reached unsustainable levels in some of its...

Vio is focusing its efforts on digital advertising delivery and hopes to crack the US market this year.

A liquidator has been appointed following a creditors meeting for the old Howitt printing group.