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Jarrold & Sons is to sell a 70% stake of Norwich-based magazine printer Jarrold Printing to a team led by former TPL managing director Bob Pitts.

The trading status of Yale Press in London SE25 is unclear, with reports that it has been placed in administration.

Up to 70 jobs are to go at Bicester-based benhamgoodheadprint (bgp) as the company announced a modernisation plan to take out inefficient capacity and invest in new kit.

WWF International UK has made a friendly takeover bid to buy rival paper merchant the Salehurst Group.

Gary Lasham has returned to the industry at the head of a 10m buy-in management buyout at Multigraphics.

Polestar has ordered Cerutti presses and Ferag finishing equipment as part of a 100m investment in its greenfield gravure facility and group binderies.

The GPMU has secured the first recognition deal for white-collar workers within the Polestar Group at Bristol-based Polestar Purnell.

PrintWeek has struck a deal with IPA to get its readers a discounted rate on the CIP4/IPA organised JDF Expert Certificate training.

The trial of Richard Spearman, accused of conspiracy to defraud, heard how proofs originating from St Ives Burrups were found at a business address in Essex.

The future of WE Berry hangs in the balance this week as administrators sit on a decision whether to sell the company as a going concern or sell off the assets.

Biddles, the book-printing arm of W&G Baird Group, has installed an IBM Infoprint 4000, increasing its book printing capacity by 30,000 books per month.

Despite a poor performance in commercial printing, ink-jet manufacturer Domino Printing Sciences has posted a record set of results for this financial year.

Former Perivan Group sales and marketing director Richard Owers has joined Beacon Press as business development manager.

Creo has launched a new component of its newspaper workflow range, Synapse NewsManager.

Peterborough-based The City Ruling Company has expanded its premises following a sustained period of growth.