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Graphic Facilities has picked up the contract to do the repro for Radio Times

Carlton Offset, the Beckenham-based printer that suffered from the demise of ITV Digital, has gone into administrative receivership.

A printing industry forum could be launched this autumn if the DTI approves the plans for its formation.

Centurions 42m price tag has provoked a flurry of speculation in the print management sector over who could be the next to cash in.

SPS Group, SPS Advertising and SPS Printing have been placed into administration with Andrew Andronikou of Hacker Young and Partners.

Mail-Well has sold its labels division, including UK interests Label Double S in Bradford, Customark in Cradley Heath and Stampiton of Stockport.

Dudley Office Supplies has gone into administrative receivership and effectively ceased trading with the loss of 250 jobs, only four months after the end of its previous administration.

Directors of Graphic Inline, the Leicester-based direct mail printer, are behind a new venture headed up by former Communisis key accounts staff Paul Foster and Tim Bennett.

St Ives Gillingham factory will close on 7 June.

Klippan Paper has bought a further 500,000 shares or 1% of Inveresk, taking its total holding up to 8.4% of the Scottish papermaker.

Problems at a UK printer have been falsely blamed for the late distribution of 144,000 World Cup 2002 tickets, according to the FIFA World Cup Ticketing Bureau.

About 60 people have attended a meeting convened by the Montgomery Litho Group finance director Andrew Montgomery to discuss the growing problem of phoenix firms in the Scottish print sector.

KBA is claiming second spot in the sheetfed market behind Heidelberg after its order backlog overtook that of main rival MAN Roland.

Digital print will become a mainstream process alongside litho, both for monochrome and colour work, and will account for 15% of the value of all print by 2007, a new report predicts.

Ipex organiser IIR Exhibitions has appointed Trevor Crawford as exhibitions director, following the announcement that Caroline Eden is stepping down in June after eight years.