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The GPMU has agreed a wage settlement with CarnaudMetalBox (CMB) following eight months of negotiations and a weeks industrial action at the beginning of September

Smith and Williamson has made 35 shop floor workers redundant at Bradford-based Foster Print after being appointed administrative receiver

A new online print quoting site that went live last week has signed up over 500 printers

Williams Lea has landed a monster seven-year contract to handle 210m of print for the financier Axa

A class action lawsuit has been lodged in the US against Xerox for allegedly publishing misleading information about its financial status

Management at Barco Graphics are planning an MBO of the business, in a deal which will be backed by Cinven Partners. <br> <br>

Applied Optical Technologies has bounced back after losing euro banknote work to win contracts with FIFA, General Motors and German railways

Communisis has expanded its financial printing activities with a new typesetting operation in the City of London

Wyndeham subsidiary ET Heron could be the next UK printer to opt for the 48pp web format

The EU Commission has extended the investigation into SCAs acquisition of Metsa Tissue for four more months

Canon has introduced the imageRunner brand to the UK, under which the Heidelberg Digimaster will be eventually sold

Polestar Wheatons in Exeter is closing its 50-staff sister firm Digital Techset and opening a small graphic arts studio

Xerox has made Jean-Noel Machon president of Xerox European Solutions Group

Anglia GPMU has predicted management opposition to union recognition of 140 staff at the Cambridge Evening News following leafleting outside the papers Milton offices

Litho Supplies has sealed a major deal with Imation which will see the firm take on the majority of Imations "traditional" customers