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Polestar is set to merge its Spanish printing operations with those of Grupo Prisa, the countrys biggest media company, to form a new joint-venture business.

Claverley, the newspaper publishing and print group that owns the <i>Shropshire Star</i> and Precision Colour Printing, wants to buy Guiton Group, which publishes the <i>Jersey Evening Post</i> and...

Scorpio Print Finishings new management team has extended the Pudsey firms offering with a 200,000 investment in an Autobond thermal laminator.

Polestar, St Ives and Stora Enso are among the founding members of a new PPA initiative that aims to give key suppliers to the magazine publishing sector a greater insight into the major issues facing...

Print and packaging suppliers of Hibernia Foods, which went into administrative receivership last week, will not face any immediate disruption to their contracts.

Brann Direct Communications has installed two Xerox DocuPrint 100s in a bid to improve productivity and offer more on-demand services.

Legal action between the GPMUs national executive and seven of its branches has been called off after agreement was reached.

Kodaks institutional investors said they needed more information on the firms restructuring plan at the meeting organised by Providence Capital last week.

International Paper has blamed weak demand and declining prices for a 16% fall in third-quarter net earnings to 72m ($122m).

The growth in sales of long perfecting sheetfed presses has prompted an alliance between Heidelberg, BASF and Sappi to maximise their competencies for the market.

Roberts Mart, the Leeds-based plastic and paper packaging printer, is moving to a new purpose-built site.

DS Smith has bought Macfarlane Groups northern corrugated packaging manufacturing operations for a cash consideration of 900,000.

Scitex Digital Printing has relaunched its VersaMark range of high-speed ink-jet presses and introduced two new versions.

Quebecor Worlds UK operation maintained its margins but the group as a whole suffered from weak advertising spending and overcapacity in the three months to 30 September.

The increased take-up of colour printing boosted Xeroxs third-quarter equipment sales by 5%.