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The BPIF has urged prospective parliamentary candidates to sign its Pledge for Print in the run-up to the General Election.

Pensord managing director Darren Coxon has been elected BPIF president, having served as vice-president since March 2015.

The industry's seasonal Q4 upturn was better than expected last year, although output was down on the same quarter in 2015, the latest survey shows.

Print finisher Celloglas has ended a successful year of reinvestment after recovering from floods that left its Leeds premises under almost 1.5 metres of water last Boxing Day.

The BPIF will be relocating its London office from its current home in Aldgate to a space at the St Bride Foundation, Blackfriars, the self-proclaimed 'home of print'.

While the Brexit vote did not have the expected negative effect on trade, output levels for Q3 were at their lowest levels for the quarter since 2012.

The Brexit vote shook confidence, concludes the BPIF’s latest quarterly Printing Outlook, and as the survey highlights, no one likes uncertainty.

If predictions for output levels in Q3 are realised, we will see the lowest output levels since the financial crisis, according to a survey from the BPIF.

BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold has called on the government to invest more capital in the print industry in the wake of Brexit.

The BPIF has made the shortlist twice for the Trade Association Forum (TAF) Best Practice Awards 2016.

BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold expects to see even more entries than last year to the 2016 British Book Design & Production Awards (BBD&PAs).

The BPIF has released its latest Printing Outlook study of the health of the industry, highlighting that output and orders exceeded expectations in Q4 2015 and there is a positive forecast for Q1 2016...