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Midlands Publishing Holdings has lost out in its bid to buy Beshara Press Group after the Tewkesbury-based printer was bought by AVG Corporation.

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

More than half the full-time staff at Basildon printer Carlton Barclay have been made redundant after the firm went into administrative receivership last week.

Bunzl is selling Bunzl Fine Paper to PaperlinX of Australia for 138m, but chairman Anthony Habgood said the performance of the paper industry had nothing to do with timing of the sale.

William Alden, group managing director of the Alden Group and former chairman of the Print & Graphic Communication National Training Organisation, has been awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday...

Advertising industry veteran Graham Hinton has joined Seven Worldwide with the brief to build business with advertising agencies.

Cicely Brown has joined the BPIFs executive board as director of corporate and external affairs.

Pelican Press in Manchester has emerged as Holdmede, two weeks after Pelican went into liquidation due to a 100,000 bad debt from Public Sector Information, which wound up in May.

BAS Printers, which specialises in books and catalogues for fine art, has been sold to Artprint Holdings following the retirement of managing director David Gumn.

Jack Deller, founder of print industry recruitment specialist Jack Deller Associates, has died aged 82.

Cambridge Newspapers has signed a 4.5m contract with KBA to enhance its press line to satisfy advertisers demand for back-to-back colour.

Access Plus, the Bristol-based print management group, has recovered from "flat" trading conditions after winning five new contracts during its second quarter.

FIFA claims that it warned the World Cup 2002 organising committee months before the tournament be-gan that ticketing problems could arise, and has praised Manchester-based Byrom for its handling of...

Bousfield has appointed a new finance director and introduced a plan to enhance customer service.

Bootyman Printers director Phil Bailey says Mitsubishi presses are "the best kept secret in the industry", and in a demonstration of his faith his firm has installed a six-colour Diamond 1000 LS with...