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Mark Croucher has left Butler and Tanner after just eight months to join MPG Group as deputy managing director of Unwin Brothers.

South London printer First Impression has closed its doors leaving serious debts to suppliers.

Creo has served 90 days notice on NCS, its biggest UK dealer, stopping it being a Creo authorised reseller from 6 November.

Quebecor World will today enter the high-octane world of mens weekly magazines, with the arrival on newsstands of publisher H Bauers Cut.

BASF has again declined to comment on reports that it is about to sell its printing inks unit for up to 400m (598m).

Hydro-Dynamic Products has launched its environmental manifesto and announced its intention to gain ISO 14001 accreditation as a matter or urgency.

Drupa generated a huge surge in orders for Heidelberg in its first quarter, but the massive cost of the show effectively wiped out operating profits from continuing operations.

Global media specialist Clear Channel Communications has bought the assets of Mega Profile, after the company went into administrative receivership.

Goss International has effectively doubled in size with the completion of its acquisition of Heidelberg Web Systems.

Polestar has looked outside the industry to find the boss for its new Sheffield gravure plant.

Print management company HH Associates drive to drum up more European business has continued with the appointment of Chris Onslow as a non-executive director.

ESP Colour has won the contract to produce fundraising packs for the BBC's Children in Need appeal.

M-real has agreed to sell its subsidiary Price & Pierce Group to Gould Paper for an undisclosed sum.

Astron has secured a three-year contract to manage the Scottish Executive's print, publishing and related services.

Industrial action over pay at Polestar Direct has been avoided following talks between the firms management and GPMU officials.