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Jarvis Porter is pulling the plug on its loss-making Creative Packaging operation in Hinckley, and is set to close the plant with the loss of almost 260 jobs

Jarvis Porter is pulling the plug on its loss-making Creative Packaging operation in Hinckley, and will close the plant with the loss of almost 260 jobs.<br><br>

Former Tinsley Robor label division deputy managing director George Whitelock has joined Mansfields Label Vision as managing director

The introduction of the stakeholder pension scheme has forced Crest Packaging to abandon its own final salary scheme after failing to meet minimum funding requirements

Duncan Web Offset has sold its Tovil site for more than 4m, freeing the firm to complete the move to its new Parkwood plant in Maidstone

The US economic slowdown and "soaring energy costs" have failed to derail Quebecor World, which has reported record income for the first quarter of 2001

WAM!NET has dismissed rumours that it will go under and says it is on target to become self-financing by the end of the year

Astron has won a multi-million pound contract with Siemens Business Services to provide it with print and fulfilment services for National Savings

Kodak Polychrome Graphics is changing its strategy on pre-press hardware in the UK, signalling an end to its sale of Heidelberg and CreoScitex products

The Print and Graphic Communication National Training Organisation (PGCNTO) has completed its Sector Workforce Development Plan, which will affect its funding for the next three years

Waddies has completed the acquisition of Polton Press two months after it was first mooted

Vaseys Colour Printers has bought an automated B1 six-colour Komori Lithrone 640 with coater, its third Komori press, which will be commissioned in the middle of this month.

Polestar has won the 1.5m contract for Neat Ideas monthly office furniture catalogues and stationery, which were formerly produced by Jarrolds

Burall PlasTec, based in Cambridgeshire, has produced 50,000 lenticular front covers for Shine magazine, the first womens monthly to feature the process

Booktailor is to license its e-business architecture to non-fiction and reference publishers, enabling them to produce on-demand customised books via the web