News

Heidelbergs profits for the year ending 31 March 2001 have exceeded expectations and sales across all divisions continue to grow

Hyway Printing Group has appointed a new group managing director, David Harrison, to help navigate the company through its on-going investment programme

Virgin has set up a new business to take its own print supply chain management solution to a wider audience, offering clients savings of up to 20% in the process

Midlands Publishing Group (MPG) claims to be "on the verge" of completing the acquisition of a web offset printer with sales of 8.75m

British Telecom is considering plans to demerge or sell Yell, its Yellow Pages business, but it seems unlikely that printing will be affected

M-real plans to substantially reduce the number of Zanders products and streamline its operations

Scitex claims its focus on digital printing and ink-jet technology is bearing fruit after reporting increased revenues for Scitex Digital Printing and Scitex Vision

Field Group has won the contract to produce John Dewars multipack cartons and has installed a high- speed packing line to do the job

The crisis in Scotlands electronics industry is forcing Macfarlane Group to look at rationalising its packaging facilities

Tory Ian McCord, sector commercial manager for Polestar magazines and catalogues in Leeds, is standing for the Conservatives in next months election

WAM!NET has announced a new pricing model and additional services, which it hopes will increase the use of its service

Sappi has warned that profits could suffer in the second half of the year after reporting a fall in operating profits for the second quarter

Continuing pressure on market pulp prices has forced down Sdras profits for the first quarter of 2001

Dellprint in Essex has eschewed CTP in favour of a Screen Tanto B1+ computer to film system citing its superior quality

Bezier is coming to terms with the sudden death of its managing director, David Simpson