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Paper lags behind in e-trade uptake

The paper and board industry "lags way behind the majority of the manufacturing industry in its adoption of e-commerce", with only 17% of companies developing e-commerce strategies and plans

AIM float to boost value of TripleArc

Online print buying service TripleArc is looking to float on the Alternative Investment Market by Christmas

Print Buyers hosts PII launch

Progressive Impressions International used last weeks Print Buyers Forum as a launchpad for its UK operations

Kodak to buy Encad

Kodak is buying wide-format ink-jet manufacturer Encad for 17.5m ($25m)

Akzo Nobel sells printing inks division

Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its printing inks business to a management team led by Akzo Nobel Printing Inks president Peter Koivula.

PPS cuts 16 jobs

Pershke Price Service (PPS), MAN Rolands UK sales agent, is to make 7% of its staff redundant due to current trading conditions.

Xeikon to make announcement on future later today

Staff at Belgian digital press manufacturer Xeikon were in a mass meeting this morning (9 November), amid speculation about the firms financial situation.

Oc to acquire Gretag Professional Imaging

Oc has reached an agreement with Gretag Imaging Group to acquire its Professional Imaging division.

Essex Colour MBO, Perivan buys White Dove

Essex Colour, the repro house owned by Goodspeed Communications, has been bought in an MBO led by Mark Dane

Xeikon files for creditor protection

Xeikon has filed a request for creditor protection under applicable Belgian legislation.

Polestar Broadley proposes job cuts

Polestar is proposing 31 job losses at Broadley, its Accrington-based wet-glue label printing plant, to improve productivity because of increasing pressure on label prices.

NUR forced to reduce costs and cut jobs

Flat sales at large-format printer manufacturer NUR have led to cost-saving measures including an unspecified number of job cuts

End of the road for Finchmark Graphics

Finchmark Graphics has ceased trading with the loss of around 60 jobs after its administrative receiver failed to achieve a sale of the business as a going concern

Keldia contract still not signed

Keldia Printings administrators have agreed a price with Masterspeed, a subsidiary of Alito Color, for the business of the Walthamstow commercial printer printer but contracts hadnt been signed before...

Donnelley cuts London staff

RR Donnelley Financial in the City of London has cut 18% of its workforce citing a dip in the worlds markets