The value of the personalised gift market is expected to reach $31bn (£24bn) by 2021 – up 55% from 2016, at least according to new research commissioned by HP.

Hexcite Group has been launched as the new £60m-turnover unifying brand identity of Gardners, Kesslers and SFD, which were recently brought together in a series of acquisitions.

Big-name speakers in print and marketing have confirmed they will talk at Cross Media 2013, which features more than 50 seminars in five theatres for the two-day event.

Enfocus has launched a second update for its Switch 2018 workflow software.

Canon Europe and Pageflex, a division of software developer Bitstream, have struck a pan-European deal to give Canon customers access to a range of personalisation and web-to-print software.

Williams Lea Tag (WLT) has acquired end-to-end shopper marketing activation partner Popcorn Global to add advanced POS design and prototyping capabilities to its offering in this area.

Blackburns has installed two Kodak Versamark digital printing systems as part of its bid to strengthen its position in personalised direct marketing.

Midlothian based-printer Harveys UK has continued trading under the same name after it was sold in a pre-pack deal to newco CGD Binder Solutions.

Crossroads - an initiative set up by Enfocus to promote automated and efficient best-in-class bespoke pre-media workflows - is launching a series of free-to-attend seminars in the UK.

Vienna-based bank card manufacturer Austriacard has declared it will apply for listings on the Vienna and Athens stock exchanges and merge with Inform-Lykos, a data management and digital/security...