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Charterhouse, the Hatfield-based print management company, has won a major contract to handle all the collateral for the relaunch of The AirMiles Travel Company.

Mercury Packaging in Kirkby-in-Ashfield has supplied and printed 35,500 bags for Greek motoring magazine Drives special Ford-sponsored issue.

John Brown Citrus Publishing (JBCP) has been forced to opt for a European printer for a new magazine after its UK preferred suppliers had no spare capacity.

Truckside advertising specialist RoadAds has produced a campaign to market Bruce Springsteens latest album.

Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond says he has secured the financial backing to buy the Telegraph Group if its parent, Hollinger, decides to sell.

De La Rue is closing its Peterborough and Byfleet operations with the loss of up to 200 jobs following a strategic review of its Global Services division.

A&R Carton has told employees that it is not possible to continue its operations at its Chesterfield site and has called in administrators from Kroll.

Print entrepreneur Nicholas Humes pleaded not guilty to charges of acting as a company director while an undischarged bankrupt when he appeared in court this week (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 16 October).

Credit checking firm ICSM has updated its database to improve the delivery of information to its clients, including BPIF members with affiliate membership.

Forensic experts are trying to establish the cause of a fire that destroyed Reed Print & Designs production site in Washington, Tyne & Wear last weekend.

Another user of Heidelbergs Mainstream newspaper press has reported performance problems, but it believes its on the way to solving them.

Germanys Siegwerk Group hopes to become Europes third largest manufacturer of packaging and gravure publication inks by acquiring Iowa-based packaging ink maker Color Converting.

Many print companies should face less red tape under new government plans to increase the threshold for the statutory auditing of accounts.

The GPMU national executives report into its Kent branch makes 26 allegations of breaches of rules.

Jefferson Smurfit chairman Michael Smurfit has earmarked his son Tony as a successor to current chief executive Gary McGann, amid talk that the paper and packaging manufacturing group could return to...