Paragon Group paid less than a 20th of the price RR Donnelley originally splurged on Astron when it acquired the US firm’s European BPO business earlier this week, Printweek can reveal.

Companies in sectors including travel and retail believe that personalisation in direct mail will increase responses by 33.4%, according to research from Lloyd James.

Communisis has enlisted the help of a data company to hone targeted marketing based on what it hopes will be one of the UK's most comprehensive database services.

Repro firm Dot Gradations has ceased trading following a handover of its archives and order book to Tag Publishing.

Sheffield printer ProCo has made Jeremy Welch account manager and Nicola Renton sales manager of direct-marketing services. Welch used to work for McCann Erickson and Renton joined from Halcyon...

Acorn Web Offset has partnered with Kings High School in Pontefract to promote career options in printing. Backed by Print Yorkshire, the scheme involves visits to the companys Wakefield site. We want...

Banknotes with major printing defects have gone into circulation, after De La Rue mixed up sheets of good and bad quality 20 notes.

The PPA has presented two Chairmans Awards. Alice Beattie, group manufacturing director at National Magazine Company, won for her work co-chairing the PPA production and technology committee. Lindsay...

Xerox XMPie personalisation software users can now embed web-to-print onto their customers' Facebook pages, enabling them to order branded print materials.

Colourfast Financial has taken on the UK’s first AccurioJet KM-1 from Konica Minolta to drive its new online platform as it increases its focus on commercial work.