News

Printing.com has reported a 45% rise in turnover and a 43% fall in its pre-tax losses, as anticipated in its preliminary results for the year ending 31 March 2002 (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 14 June).

Enfocus Software plans to open up its Ghent PDF Workgroup, which will look at developing and maintaining PDF certified standards, to global production associations.

The advertising industry has called on national newspaper publishers to adopt Adfast at the earliest opportunity so that transactions are simpler.

Pine Tree Systems, the Danish digital asset management software firm, has launched a range of off-the-shelf products for printers and publishers.

Xerox has renegotiated its 4.67bn ($7bn) revolving line of credit by repaying 1.87bn and extending the final repayment date for the remainder to 30 April 2005.

Mohn Media will be the test site for Printcafes production planning software, Prime.

HP Indigo is reorganising its European and UK marketing departments.

Aprion Digital has made its Shaldag SP industrial high-speed ink-jet press commercially available, following nine months of beta testing.

UK paper merchants still dealing with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) face being "named and shamed" by Friends of the Earth (FoE), according to forest campaigner Ed Matthew.

M-real has unveiled plans for a restructuring of its Map Merchant groups UK operations, which will involve staff cuts and warehouse closures across its three UK merchants.

Jefferson Smurfits independent directors have confirmed that they have received an approach from a rival bidder, believed to US private equity house Texas Pacific Group (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 21 June).

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) "still has a lot to do", according to a report highlighting its progress over the past year.

The governments of the G8 countries and China are not doing enough to stamp out imports of illegally sourced timber and wood products, according to a WWF report.

John Brown Citrus Publishing is reviewing the status of suppliers for the UKs largest circulation magazine, <i>Sky Customer Magazine</i>, after taking over the publishing contract from Redwood...

Intelligent Print Solutions (IPS), the print management company in Tonbridge, Kent, has supplied more than 15m game cards for fast food chain McDonalds in its World Cup promotion.