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Creo has signed a deal to raise 27m ($50m) through the issue of 5m shares to a syndicate of investors, which it will use primarily to fund its plate strategy.

Williams Lea is to benefit from a 20m influx of new capital from venture capital house 3i, which it will use to fund new contracts and potential acquisitions.

Leeds and London-based repro company Gilchrist is aiming for growth under new managing director Paul Bean.

A reliance on print management to drive sales has been reflected in Communisis year-end results for 2003.

The trading situation of paper merchant York & Ford remains unclear.

Around 600 jobs at Polestars loss making Purnell gravure plant are at risk unless on-going talks between the print groups management and the GPMU find a way to stem the losses.

Any new owner of The Telegraph newspaper would have to look for new print sites, according to the owner of Express Newspapers Richard Desmond.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is to launch a Paper Forum to try and bring together key players in the industry, following confusion over its Chain of Custody Certification for printers.

The print buying process can greatly add value and reduce costs significantly, if it is evaluated and properly researched.

Polestar Colchester has won the contract to print monthly magazine <i>Sussex Life</i> and is linking up with its publisher Archant on further projects.

At Drupa, Kodak Versamark plans to show its next generation of ink-jet presses, which it claims provide a viable alternative for some web-offset work.

Scitex Vision is taking the threat from Chinese manufacturers seriously and has reduced the price of its hardware in response.

Esko-Graphics will launch an entry-level B2 platesetter at Drupa, the PlateDriver-Compact, which is based on HighWaters Python.

Reed Packaging, the Gateshead-based food and pharmaceutical carton manufacturer, has been put up for sale by its parent company Reed Print Group.

Franchising will generate almost 30% of Printing.coms quoted print work in the current financial year, and should grow to half the firms revenue by 2005, reports corporate research specialist...