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Tag inplant at Ogilvy & Mather

Tag has set up an inplant repro house at advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.

PCC counts on private sector to aid recovery

The Printers' Charitable Corporation (PCC) is looking for corporate sponsors to raise more than 300,000 next year to make up for losses in the value of its stock market investments.

Polestar to set up focused DM wing

Polestar has united all its direct mail activities to form Polestar Direct and plans to invest 3m in the new division over the next year.

PPA to launch v3 of pass4press

Version three of pass4press - the digital advertising submission standard - was launched yesterday (28 November) at the Periodical Publishers Association's (PPA) Production 2002 conference.

VNU extends PPS contract

VNU Business Publications UK has extended Publishing Paper Solutions' (PPS) paper management services contract (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 13 July 2001).

Prism signs major MIS deal

Prism Group, the Colchester-based MIS supplier, has signed major deals with Howitt and The Walsall Print Group.

Print's Top 500 shows profitability split

<i>PrintWeek</i>'s annual <i>Top 500</i> survey, starkly reveals the widening gap between print's winners and losers.

Quebecor to lose president by April

Quebecor World's share price fell by almost 10% this week after president and chief executive Charles Cavell, the man who led its transformation into the world's largest commercial printer, said he...

Print firm bosses accused of fraud

Two former business partners of dissolved London print company Grangewood (Sales & Marketing) are in court accused of swindling 2m from a City bank to pay for executive boxes at Tottenham Hotspur's...

RR Donnelley wins Pages Jaunes deal

RR Donnelley has secured the third major European customer for its Flaxby Moor directory printing plant in Yorkshire.

Silicon Crag to distribute Polkadots

ROOM workflow specialist distributor Silicon Crag is distributing Polkadots PrePage-IT in the UK.

SMG completes printing move

SMG's print centre has completed the move from its former Glasgow city centre plant in Albion Street to the new 38m state-of-the-art production centre in Cambuslang.

St Bride to run Tudor replica

St Bride Library, the London-based research institute for the printing industry, will next year install the working replica of the Caxton-style Tudor printing press featured in BBC2's <i>What The...

FSC catalogue first from Stibo

Stibo Graphic in Denmark has printed what is claimed to be the world's first Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified B2B mail order catalogue, for office supplies company WITRE.

Tharstern develops direct supplier links from MIS

Tharstern has developed direct links from its MIS to consumables suppliers and new features for its Customer On-Line service.