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Vertis appoints new sales director

Vertis has appointed Ruaraidh Thomas to succeed Alistair Ezzy as UK sales director

Forms manufacturer NEC meets APACS criteria

North East Continuous (NEC) has achieved APACS accreditation at the first attempt and hopes to increase its turnover by 25% this year

Rawlings loses veteran MD and founder aged 88

Kenneth Ballinger Rawlings, chairman and managing director of Ballinger Rawlings has died

Back to basics for a more focused JP

Jarvis Porter is "getting back to where it started being a label producer", but has been hit by interim pre-tax losses after exceptional items of over 8.5m

Stora Enso appoints new MD

Stora Ensos new UK managing director will be John Bardsley

BASF sustains profits course

BASFs Printing Systems division is reporting a strong performance despite market conditions affecting the outlook for its parent company

Documedia hit by cashflow problems

Documedia has appointed administrative receivers and made 22 staff redundant with the closure of its London office after experiencing on-going cashflow problems

12-colour B1 press for Taylor Bloxham

Taylor Bloxham has become the first Midlands printer to install a 12-colour B1 Heidelberg Speedmaster

Photobition restructures debt

Photobition looks set to announce a programme of debt-restructuring, to convert at least 50m of its 100m debt into equity

Webb promoted at Redwood

Redwood Publishing production director Niki Webb has been promoted to senior account director

Goss gains credit increase approval

Goss Graphic Systems has won final court approval for its 63m debtor-in-possession lending facility, and has confirmed 70m of new orders

DM has doubled in a decade

The volume of direct mail sent in the UK has doubled in the last 10 years, according to findings published by the Direct Mail Information Service

Time capsule found at Thomas Forman site

A 1m-long time capsule buried underneath the Thomas Forman printing works in Nottingham has been unearthed after 38 years

AdFast to use MarkzNet web-based pre-flighting

The Newspaper Society aims to broaden AdFasts appeal to smaller advertisers by incorporating AdWebs Ad2Press software into it

KPG puts faith in regular film

Kodak Polychrome Graphics has launched a new imagesetting film because it believes there is still a strong market for conventional film and plate