
Benson's Kerridge honoured with Entrepreneur award
Benson Group managing director Mark Kerridge has been awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in the manufacturing & engineering category for the Midlands Region.

Royal Mail calls for Ofcom review into TNT 'cherry picking'
Royal Mail has urged Ofcom to bring forward its review of the effect of competition on the Universal Service Obligation (USO), which it said was being threatened by 'cherry picking arbitrage' by TNT...

Domino returns to profit, but shares tumble
Shares in Domino Printing Sciences, the coding & marking and inkjet printing specialist, closed at £6.15, a drop of 16.7% that wiped £140m off its market capitalisation on the release of its interim...

Rescue bid imminent at Global MP
A white-knight bidder is poised to step in with a rescue deal for the stricken Global MP business.

Kodak targets corrugated market with plate and platesetter launch
Kodak has extended its range of flexo platemaking products to address the corrugated packaging market with a new plate for corrugated pre-print and its largest flexo platemaker to date.

GPT expands product line and sales team
GPT has extended its media product line and boosted its sales team as part of a growth drive based on increasing consumables sales.

Zen Direct Mail buys Canon imagePRESS 1135+
Direct mail company Zen Direct Mail Solutions has invested in a Canon imagePRESS 1135+ to increase its capacity and productivity.

Printergage launches online print sales engine
Brighton-based start-up Printergage has developed an online sales engine for print companies that enables printers and print brokers to market their full product ranges to new and existing clients...

CPI ramps up digital book production with third Quantum
CPI UK is to boost its high-speed inkjet web book printing firepower by more than 60% with the installation of a third ‘Quantum’ line this summer – its largest to date.

Eclipse tests market with hybrid inkjet spend
Eclipse Colour has begun installation of Kodak Prosper S5 inkjet overprinting heads on its 12-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 102.
Felix Dennis RIP
Jo Francis mourns the passing of the mercurial publishing legend. She can but hope to see his like again.

Polestar extends contract with Cross Country Trains
Cross Country Trains has renewed its timetable production contract with Polestar Applied Solutions.