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Delta Display, the London-based designer and producer of point-of-purchase and outdoor advertising, has entered into a rolling contract with Buena Vista International (BVI) to promote its films...

Xerox believes that its first-quarter results show that it is on track to return to profitability this year.

Significant excess capacity in all St Ives main markets bar book printing almost halved the groups interim pre-tax profits before exceptional items to 16.6m.

William Gibbons & Sons is understood to have placed an order for yet another Komori System 38 web press.

Thomson Litho is set to shed up to 80 jobs in yet another cull that could mean its workforce has shrunk by nearly a third in just over a year.

Production efficiencies and the need to expand printers traditional relationships with customers were among the themes at Comprint in Lisbon this week.

Westcoast is poised to pick up RESs Hewlett-Packard (HP) DesignJet large-format printer distribution contract in the UK after RES Holdings, RES Distribution and Calcomp European Supplies were placed...

The worlds largest print machinery manufacturing plant Heidelbergs in Wiesloch could be affected by proposed strike action by Germanys IG Metall engineering union.

Polestar is tapping the recruitment market to assess potential managers and manufacturing directors.

Trinity Mirror has confirmed its massive order with Goss for its new 60m Fort Dunlop site between Birmingham and Coventry (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 8 March 2002).

Inveresk will close its Westfield Mill in Scotland and exit the label papers business in May, with the loss of 152 jobs.

Stora Enso has seen a drop in business but is holding out for an improvement this year after its first-quarter net profits fell 43% to 99m compared to the same period last year.

Printing equipment and supplies from the US could be hit by a 30% rise in import duties if punitive measures relating to the steel dispute between Europe and the US are approved.

Managing director Adrian Coles has successfully completed an MBO at James Townsend & Sons, the Exeter-based wet-glue label printer, and remains assuredly realistic but not optimistic about the coming...

Warners Midlands, the Lincolnshire-based magazine printer, is hoping to boost its turnover by 5m to 27m with the addition of a Heidelberg four-unit M600 A24 press with Autoplate and Omnicolor control...