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Edwardthompson has invested more than £400,000 in a raft of new machinery and equipment upgrades to increase its short-run promotional games production by around 50%.

Noted in Style, a Kent-based manufacturer and supplier of customised and branded products, has taken on a new production apprentice as it continues to grow.

This year’s PrintWeek Awards Company of the Year, Buxton Press, is investing in a second Stahlfolder as it continues its multimillion-pound equipment overhaul.

An independently owned sheetfed printer has gone into administration after more than 100 years in business.

Royal Mail’s revenues from marketing mail grew by 3% in the first half of the year, boosted by an increase in DM spend and in its own data activities.

GF Smith is publishing a 100-page crowd-sourced photobook to provide “an authoritative tool for the print buyer and photographer”.

Machinery supplier Engelmann and Buckham has announced a rebrand to reflect “extensive recent business changes”.

MIS company Tharstern has rebranded to support its global ambitions, distilling its various company names down to one word.

Flint Group has agreed to acquire the majority shareholder of Xeikon, XBC BV, and use the press and consumables manufacturer as the basis of a new digital division.

Americk Packaging has acquired Adare’s packaging business, Adare Advantage, for an undisclosed sum.

Benchmark Reprographics has taken delivery of a Canon Océ Arizona 460 GT, as the manufacturer said 5,000 had been sold worldwide.

Druckfarben, which relocated its blanket department to Corby, Northamptonshire, three months ago, has expanded again with an investment totalling around £500,000

DPS has invested more than £30,000 in new equipment to support the expansion of its gift arm, Izzy Rose.

One of the UK’s largest regular catalogue jobs should have a new printer by the end of the month.

Wallace Print has bought a 2m-wide Wohlenberg guillotine and updated its premises by adding new offices to its building.