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As <i>PrintWeek</i> went to press police had not recovered a truck and printing machinery stolen from Heidelberg UKs headquarters.

High-street franchise chain printing.com is optimistic that it will hit its target of 175 outlets by August 2005 after growing its interim turnover and pre-tax profit.

Goodhead Group, the parent of Stones the Printers and bgp, has sold its 24.9% stake in Annex Publishing and Printing to Quebecor subsidiary Sun Media.

The team behind the buy-in/management buyout at Premier Print has plans to develop the Nottingham firms print management services.

Former world snooker champion Steve Davis MBE has officially launched Howard Smith Paper Groups Dare to Bare, calendar, which aims to raise 100,000 for the Orchid Cancer Appeal.

Stora Enso is promoting forest certification in a bid to maximise the amount of wood coming from third-party certified forests and increase the number of forests covered by such systems.

Nirvana Print Solutions was among the winners at this years Premier Paper Collection awards.

PaperlinX has started talks over the appointment of a European chief executive to oversee the newly acquired paper merchanting operations of Buhrmann (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 26 June).

Sappi plans to close its London sales office and cut 150 European jobs in 2004, with Fine Paper chief executive Bill Sheffield among those leaving the company.

The Sustainable Office Forum (TSOF) has welcomed four new members from the print and paper industries.

Bell & Bain managing director Iain Walker says his company will be able to do in four days what used to take five with its new Muller Martini Acoro A5 binder.

Print entrepreneur Nicholas Humes will appear at Crown Court on 24 November in the next stage of the DTIs case against him for acting as a company director while an undischarged bankrupt.

Oc is creating a new print production workflow based completely on the Job Definition Format (JDF).

Organiser IIR has added another feature to this months Digital Print World exhibition.

Henry Ling has become the third UK printer to go public as an iGen3 user.