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Despite tough times, Curtis Papers is implementing a plan of attack to get business back on track.

Repros shift to cheap labour markets is to accelerate following expansion at a Mumbai printer and plans revealed by Fresh Media Group to move some production to India in the next two to three years.

Newly created firm Frontline Stationery has invested 100,000 in a two-colour B3 press and polyester platesetter.

UPM has announced price increases for its magazine grades, which will come into force on 1 January.

Full-colour transactional mailer DSTi Output has appointed ex-Astron man Tony Hall as consultant director.

Tangent Communications has posted upbeat figures for the six-month period to August this year and picked up new business.

The print industry has reacted with scepticism to Chancellor Gordon Browns plans to cut tedious red tape on taxes, financial regulation, health and safety and the environment.

Communisis has renewed its print management contract with the Post Office.

The bumper 278pp <i>Radio Times</i> Christmas double issue will carry the magazines first tip-on CD.

<i>The Independent</i>s move to a tabloid format cost less than an eighth of <i>The Guardian</i>s switch to a Berliner, according to accounts released this week.

Nipson has blamed seasonality and a number of adverse factors for below-par results for the nine months to September.

Pitney Bowes has launched a mid-level high-production inserter, the Flexible Productivity Series (FPS).

Plans to allow foreign newspapers to print in China have been put on hold due to concern over pro-democratic political uprisings in three former Soviet states.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) UK Working Group has reported a 37% growth in the number of chain of custody certificates issued worldwide.

MAN Roland is to attack the B2 long-perfector market with the launch of a perfecting version of its R500 press.