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St Ives has appointed Peter Hayden as the new boss at Westerham Press.

Kroll Buchler Phillips has had an undisclosed number of offers for Basildon-based Carlton Barclay and Litho-Tech Colour Printers.

Benhamgoodheadprint has entered into a 30-day consultation period with the GPMU over proposed press room redundancies at its Bicester plant.

WAM!NET and Vio have moved quickly to assure their customers that the WorldCom "debacle" will not impact upon their services.

A tough economic climate and a dwindling membership has forced the GPMU to hold preliminary talks with three separate unions about the possibility of a merger, if its membership reject plans to reduce...

The BPIF has scored a significant coup by signing Polestar as a platinum member the highest level of membership.

Terry Baber is to take over as managing director of Kodak Polychrome Graphics, succeeding Jack Wiethoff who is returning to America.

The BPIF has scored a significant success in its bid to sign up large print groups as members - Polestar has joined the federation as a platinum member.

Former Fujifilm Electronic Imaging managing director Mike Bartlett has joined Polestar as operations director.

Westerham Press managing director Mark Croucher has left the company suddenly.

Imprinta 2003 has been cancelled by Messe Dsseldorf following the decision by major exhibitors, including Heidlelberg and Creo, not to attend

Xerox has restated its earnings for the period of 1997 through to 2000 as well as further adjustments to 2001 figures of 1.2bn ($1.9bn) compared to its original figures

ControlPs acquisitions of Documedia and Colourflow have boosted its turnover but the group still recorded a hefty loss for the year to 28 February.

<i>PrintWeek</i> is sponsoring the Supplier of the Year category in the BPIFs annual Excellence Awards.

Waddies veteran Brian Purves has left the Livingston-based direct mail specialist in the wake of its takeover by Ormolu Group (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 24 May).