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Express Newspapers legal battle to retain its 50% stake in West Ferry Printers has proved fruitful to the tune of 9m.

The extent of the multi-million pound black hole in the accounts at Polestar Chantry in Wakefield can be revealed.

Businesses in the UK are waiting for 18bn worth of late payments from customers, according to figures from BACS.

Former Waddies managing director Brian Purves has returned to the industry in a senior managerial role at Allied Publicity Services (APS Group).

Printers are being urged to be careful in dealings with Berger & Company, which distributes management reports.

Antony Rowe director Peter Vincent left the company last week less than a year after he was appointed.

Argos has produced its biggest catalogue yet the autumn/winter 2002 volume is a whopping 1,122pp and weighs in at a hefty 1.6kg.

Optimism among printing machinery suppliers has risen for the second consecutive quarter, according to Picons latest industrial trends survey.

Emap has reduced its roster of repro suppliers throughout its consumer, business and Peterborough titles from 17 firms to seven after completing the review it began at the start of the year.

Madison Dearborn Partners 2.1bn (3.5bn) pre-conditional cash offer for Jefferson Smurfit has been approved by over 83% of the Irish packaging groups shareholders (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 10 May).

Iain Buckham, a former Engelmann & Buckham Machinery (E&B) director, and Karen Cobbett, former Linro sales director, have set up Integrapak to promote and sell a broad range of packaging machinery.

Police officers from Northern Irelands Serious Crime Squad have seized forged banknotes worth 250,000 in a raid on an illegal printing operation.

Sun Chemical Europe has warned flexo and gravure packaging printers that ink prices will have to rise by 3% due to unforeseen problems with supply.

Printing was one of the hardest hit industries as manufacturing output recorded one of its most significant falls over the past 20 years.

The recycled content targets for UK newspapers will not be achieved without an increase in recovered paper in imports, according to a report by The International Institute for Environment and...