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Northern Ireland's Baird Group is on the acquisition trail after its Leeds-based subsidiary Corporate Document Services bought the assets and name of CTP Information Management.

Delano, Agfas JDF-based project management software, has started commercial shipments.

Diary printer and publisher Letts Filofax has posted higher than anticipated pre-tax profits, up nearly 35%, after a solid year of healthy retail sales.

Anglo American has agreed to buy Bauernfeinds corrugated paper and packaging business for 66m (EUR94m) which it plans to merge with its Mondi Packaging business.

Retail specialist bezier in Wakefield has produced festive point of purchase (PoP) displays for Superdrug Stores.

Bury Metro Council has saved around 25,000 with the roll-out of Gandlakes LaserServe Version 5 print management software.

Londons Cantate Print has appointed Ben Turner as its new managing director.

Chevalier Printing in Holland has secured the print contract for Mazda European car brochures.

Duplo International unveiled a range of products to the UK market for the first time last week.

Dalim is set to launch an upgrade to Twist, its flagship pre-press production automation tool, at Drupa.

DS Smith has cited weak markets and pricing pressure as the cause for a sharp drop in its pre-tax profits for the first-half of this year.

St Austell repro and software specialist Atelier Data Services has sold its first software licence for its Digital Publishing Desktop (DPD) to the magazine division of Stibo Graphic.

Future Publishing in Bath has closed its music title <I>Bang</I>, citing poor sales, leading to the loss of a contract for Southernprint in Poole.

GAE finished the year with a raft of Horizon installations including one deal sealed at last months Digital Print World.

Industrial action at Goss Graphic Systems in Preston looks set to continue after workers rejected the companys latest pay offer.