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Arvato, Gruner + Jahr and Axel Springer have applied to the EU for approval of the planned merger of their gravure printing businesses.

Astron has made further in-roads into the US by signing a new three-year global contract with British Airways (BA), worth 45m over the period.

BASF Printing Systems president Michael Stumpp will leave the company when it merges with ANI Printing Inks at the end of the month.

Pressteks 22m ($40m) deal to buy AB Dick in the US will complete tomorrow, after approval for the deal was granted in a US court yesterday.

The Burall Group has appointed Andy Leet as the packaging and label specialist's executive chairman.

Goodman Baylis has hit back after a Worcester city councillor described the company as greedy over plans to move its factory.

Scorpio Print Finishing has bought Leicester-based Senator Print Finishers for an undisclosed sum, as part of an ongoing expansion of the business.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) has bought three DocuColor iGen3s in what is Xeroxs biggest ever digital press deal in the UK.

Print Design & Graphics (PDG) has won the contract to produce the packaging for Florettes new product Heavenly Veg.

The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has produced 200,000 copies of its Home Delivery Catalogue as part of a joint initiative to increase magazine sales via independent retailers.

Moving Print Distribution (MPD), part of the Delta Group, is to relocate into new 3,716m2 purpose-built premises, close to the group headquarters in Walthamstow, east London.

Trade encapsulator Encapital Finishing has bought a D&K Proteus fully automatic thermal laminator at Digital Print World.

Intaglio Print Finishing has rounded off a 150,000 investment program with the installation of two Fidia folder-gluers.

Benson Box has installed its fifth Bobst die-cutter at its Barden, Leicestershire site.

GBC Films Group Europe has launched the Centurion2 high-speed thermal laminator and two new films.