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Mergers and acquisitions have become a major driving force in print, figures in <i>PrintWeek</i>s annual survey of the industrys top firms show.

Curtis Fine Papers has secured 60,000 from Scottish Enterprise Fife to fund workforce training.

Greetings cards and general commercial printer Wayzgoose has been sold to a one-man management buy-in for an undisclosed sum.

Two directors of a mailing firm who admitted dumping more than 360,000 mail items have been jailed for two years and given huge fines.

The Lettershop Group (TLG) has installed its third Palamides Beta stacker, part of a drive to minimise the labour needed to operate its finishing lines.

Printing.com has reported significant growth in turnover, pre-tax profits and operating profits in its half-year results released this morning.

Quebecor World has sold six of its Canadian operations to an MBO team for 26m (CAD $53m).

Xsys and Flint-Schmidt have confirmed price rises of up to 12% for packaging and coldset news inks, just two weeks after the group raised prices for publication inks.

ArjoWiggins Carbonless Papers has become the second European producer to announce a price increase for carbonless paper in a fortnight.

Hewlett Packard's Q4 results showed sales had risen 7% to 13.3bn ($22.9bn) year-on-year, while pre-tax profits plummeted by over two-thirds to 222m, from 753m.

Polestar is set to reshuffle its senior management, which will include the appointment of a managing director at its gravure superplant.

Apparel label company Shore To Shore has bought John Hampden Packaging (JHP) to create a 20m plus turnover company.

Interbrandpro, the parent of UK beermat printer Quarmby, has been acquired in a secondary management buyout.

German press manufacturers KBA and MAN Roland have posted encouraging results for the third quarter.

The first two of Graphoprints three Goss presses have been fitted ahead of schedule at the firms Flintshire facility.