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Nearly 10 years after print tycoon Robert Maxwell was found mysteriously drowned in the Mediterranean, DTI inspectors are putting the finishing touches to their long-awaited investigation

David S Smith (Holdings) is taking "considerable downtime" at its UK paper businesses due to tough market conditions

The GPMU has said its National Agreement talks with the BPIF are "progressing amicably"

Britains fourth largest magazine by circulation in the latest ABC figures, Oranges Just Talk, could move its 3.34m print run from a Dutch gravure printer to the UK

HarperCollins has set up its first global eBook publishing programme under a newly formed imprint, PerfectBound

Hull-based Henry Booth Group has held the five-year 25m contract to supply ticketing for the UKs rail network

Employees at Appleton Papers in the US are in discussions with Arjo Wiggins Appleton (AWA) about an employee-sponsored buyout of the carbonless and thermal paper manufacturing operation

The NCS Group has opened its variable information centre of excellence at its advanced technologies centre in Leeds

Sterling Finance, based in Gillingham and London, has installed a Dainippon Screen Trueflow digital workflow system

Buhrmann is forecasting that paper consumption will grow faster than GDP, and that paper prices will remain stable in 2001.

Honda Trading Europe is conducting a feasibility study into the prospect of setting up its own paper merchanting division at its Swindon base

Sheffield-based greetings card printer Loxleys is to install a six-colour Indigo TurboStream and a Komori Lithrone 640EH with a reverse printing unit and coater as part of a 2.5m investment

Polestars relationship with Condé Nast will end in May after the publisher shook up its print roster

The internal investigation into print buying practices at Great Universal Stores' giant home shopping division is still ongoing.

Lynx Advances deal to acquire the lease and at least one of the web presses at Washington Webs former site could be in danger of falling through after six weeks of inactivity (PrintWeek, 9 February)