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Simpsongroup, the North East-based screen and digital printer, has landed the biggest single order in its 30-year history.

Printcafe has finally completed its IPO, raising 25.1m ($37.5m) through the sale of 3.75m shares

Polestar plans to shut two of the three presses at Watmoughs, ending weeks of speculation about the future of the Idle-based plant and possibly signalling a longer-term move of all Watmoughs-based...

Wyndeham Press suffered like most of the rest of the industry in 2001 but believes it is well placed to take advantage of any recovery.

Print Direct managing director Gary Lasham has been appointed as group sales director of Wyndeham, which bought the company two years ago.

The BPIF, GPMU and Packaging Federation have joined forces to establish the Fair Deal Group (FDG), which will provide an independent monitoring system to ensure that supermarkets comply with their...

Printers that can diversify and embrace multiple delivery systems and asset management will be best positioned to take advantage of the changing publishing sector, according to Pira and the DTI.

The UK "narrowly failed" by 2%, or 263,000 tonnes, to meet its overall packaging waste recovery targets for 2001, the government has admitted.

CPI UK has acquired the freehold of its main book manufacturing site in Bath, but says its plans to establish a new greenfield site will still go ahead.

Magazine printers toughing it out in a market already hit by overcapacity could be dealt a further blow if the Royal Mails proposal to switch from weight-based to size-based pricing causes publishers...

Kent Lithos assets and goodwill have been bought by a new company led by the same management team.

The print and packaging operations of Mill Hill Printers and Hemel Adhesive Labels have joined forces to form Mill Print & Labels.

Jon Guy is stepping down as head of Heidelberg Used Equipment to become the president and chief of executive of Gallus USA in September.

Creo chief executive Amos Michelson used Printcafes Connect 2002 user conference to announce a new member of the firms Synapse range of software tools, which are the basis of its Networked Graphic...

St Ives Westerham Press has promoted Daniel Nolan to sales director, replacing Sarah Daly, who left the company in January.