News

HP has revealed plans to cut 14,500 jobs as part of a programme to drive growth and make annual savings of 1.1bn ($1.9bn).

Bousfield Holdings, the company formed to take on the manufacturing and distribution businesses of Openshaw, has bought printing powder firm Faust for an undisclosed sum.

Scorpio Print Finishing is in the early stages of talks with print finisher TTB Group about the possibility of buying the Kent-based firm.

Garnett is to cease papermaking production in the UK, with 134 jobs at risk at its Otley mill.

Wace has finished commissioning the first long perfector in its 5m Heidelberg spend with the second going in this week, as part of a move to nearly double turnover.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has broken all UK book sales records in its first week, and publisher Bloomsbury has paid tribute to printer Clays.

The latest batch of delegates have graduated from the BPIFs professional certificate in print management at Loughborough university.

Energy firm Powergen has launched its annual search for Britains liveliest executive, with a call for entries to the Most Energetic Boss 2005 award.

HH Associates has bought Cheshire-based print management company ART Print Services.

Sanderson Group has acquired Progressive Computer Systems in a 1.75m deal, with further acquisitions planned in the firms buy and build strategy.

Print management firm BDL Print Group has bagged two new contracts to provide packaging, point-of-sale, stationery and marketing collateral to subsidiaries of the Caudwell Group.

Print firm Image Data Group (IDG) has appointed two former bezier directors to head up its business development and marketing divisions.

Williams Lea has refuted claims in the national press that it could be looking at a possible sale of the business.

Heidelberg is to target the packaging and label market as its latest press, the Speedmaster XL 105, comes on to the market.

A Belgian print museum has been named a Unesco World Heritage site, alongside the Rocky necropolis in Italy and three ancient biblical settlements in Israel.