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The countdown to PrintWeeks best-read feature, the Power 100, has begun and several of those candidates known to have made the list assembled at Stationers Hall last week for a special photoshoot.

Edinburgh-based print firm Stewarts has been bought out by its management for an undisclosed sum.

Curtis Fine Papers has reached agreement with the GPMU to close its Dalmore mill, with the loss of 100 jobs, around a quarter of its workforce.

Escalating losses at its metallised paper division have seen API post an operating loss in its first half, and the group has also parted company with chief executive Derek Ashley.

Oxuniprint has appointed George Thomas as its director of printing services, to replace Martin Slade, who is retiring.

European and council elections on June 10 could be declared null and void after the distribution of postal ballot papers was delayed by printing problems.

The printroom of The Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening News has suffered severe smoke damage after a fire.

Hollinger International, publisher of the Daily Telegraph, has said the sale of its titles will focus on the UK elements, instead of trying to sell the publishing group as a whole.

The majority shareholder in Goss has pledged to invest $100m in restructuring Heidelbergs web division when it buys the firm.

The BPIF has extended the deadline for entries for this years Excellence Awards to 14 June.

More paper companies have been the subject of European Commission raids into price fixing and cartel allegations, as the net has spread wider into the US.

Arvato, the wholly owned print and services division of German media giant Bertelsmann, is yet to release full details of its proposed gravure printing plant in Liverpool.

Charterhouse, the Hatfield-based print management company, has won a major contract worth in excess of 4m per year to handle the vast majority of the general print for supermarket chain Waitrose.

The managing director of book printer CPI Bath has said that the company would return to profitability after it posted growing losses in its accounts to March 2003.

EFI has licensed the Fogra media wedge for use in the next generation of its RIPs and proofers.