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The Print Education Forum (PEF) is launching its Big Books designed to inform schoolchildren about the print sector at the DTI today.

<i>Harry Potter</i> publisher Bloomsbury Publishing is to print 15 editions of existing <i>Harry Potter</i> titles this year, along with adult hardbacks of the first four books.

Increasing finance costs helped push printers average profit margins down to just 3.29% in 2003, according to the BPIF.

Print groups Cooper Clegg and St Ives have been hit by Emaps closure of <i>J17</i> magazine, and suspension of style bible <i>The Face</i>.

Chancellor Gordon Brown has infuriated small businesses by imposing a 19% tax on dividend payments for incorporated businesses.

MAN Roland will show a shaftless sheetfed press at Drupa which it claims will dramatically reduce the time taken to change between jobs, especially on long perfectors.

Security print specialist The TALL Group has secured a deal to acquire the customer list of De La Rues Peterborough-based special cheque printing business.

Webmart has expanded its UK operations with a new Scottish office.

Print management firm TripleArc indicated that it is likely to hit the acquisitions trail again this autumn, following publication of strong full-year results.

Former Salehurst chief executive Matthew Valentine has joined the James McNaughton Paper Group, initially for three months as a consultant.

Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has appointed Rupert Middleton to the newly created position of group director of manufacturing.

The proposed recycling plant near William Clowes new print works has been given the go ahead by the local council.

The Print Factory is set to invest 2m in a new DM and transactional billing plant.

John Blackburns new sales and marketing director, Gurdev Singh, has drafted in further direct mail expertise with two key appointments.

UK newspaper publishers and British newsprint manufacturers have exceeded targets for recycled content, according to latest industry statistics.