News

James McNaughton Paper Group has appointed Tony Porter as marketing director

Business support service specialist Amey Comax has handled the stationery printing for QinetiQ, the re-branded Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA)

Openshaw will launch the next phase of its e-commerce strategy, an online catalogue called Phizz, next month

Vios management is engaged in ongoing talks over the proposal for Scitex and BT to sell the data transfer and graphic arts ASP to its management team

Fuji launched its e-production service, myfujifilm.com, at Seybold Boston this week

Patrick Howitt marked his retirement from the printing industry with a farewell lunch at Stationers Hall last week

AGI Media Packaging has appointed Dave Mackintosh as the new managing director at its Swindon multimedia plant

Bemrose is strengthening its executive management team with a number of key appointments

Harmsworth Quays, the worlds largest flexo newspaper plant, has reaffirmed it commitment to the process with a 55m investment in KBA Courier presses over five years

Danka Business Systems has achieved the first stage of an ambitious plan to cut its 376m debt by selling Danka Services Interna-tional for 204m ($290m) to Pitney Bowes

Macfarlanes 21.7m acquisition of National Packaging Group this week has confirmed the groups strategy of focusing on distribution rather than manufacturing

St Ives share price fell to a new 52-week low of 354.5p this week after the firm revealed a 4% dip in half-year profits to 30.7m

Amcor has teamed with Danisco and Akerlund & Rausing to corner 15% of the European flexible packaging market

Jarvis Porter Group has reported its predicted losses for the year ending February 2001, but is confident its restructuring last year will turn fortunes around

More than 50% of printers are investing in new equipment in order to increase efficiency, according to the PrintWeek Investment Survey 2001