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The Color Co is restructuring and refocusing its business, and will concentrate on its 12 London outlets, selling all eight other locations.

An epidemic of tree-killing pine beetles sweeping through British Columbia's (BC) forests in Canada has infested 3.6m hectares (9m acres) of forest.

The James McNaughton Paper Group has declared that it views any form of support for phoenix companies as unacceptable business.

Curtis Fine Papers has been named a regional winner in the national Vision into Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) competition.

The European market is awaiting price increases for virgin fibre, but at the same time waste-based cartonboard prices are under pressure.

MY Cartons and Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) have won contracts to be carton suppliers to Diageo, along with its main carton producer, Field Group.

Walsall Print Company has won a contract to print 10m labels a year for the perfume brand Xavier Laurent.

Polestar Petty has been awarded the contract by BBC Worldwide to print a new weekly tailored edition of the <i>Radio Times</i> for NTL cable customers.

Hyway Printing Services has been placed into administration today, less than four months after the Surrey Quays company was bought by Montrose Press sister company Valeyard.

Jarrold Printing plans to make 59 redundancies as part of a major restructuring proposed to staff at a meeting on 2 December.

The GPMU and BPIF have reconciled their differences over training issues and were both in London today (2 December) to support the launch of the Printing Industry Forum.

Thomas Potts has disposed of its second print manufacturing business in four days.

Bobst Group wants to become a bigger player in the flexible packaging sector through the 57m acquisition (e90m) of Metso Corporation's converting activities.

Edotech, the Tewkesbury-based transactional print outsourcing specialist, has won BT's Breaking the Mould supplier award for its "innovative and effective processes" to improve service levels.

Centurion has won a two-and-a-half-year extension to its Sainsbury's print management contract in a deal worth 40m.