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UK's first Promotional Products Week hits the mark

British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) is amassing feedback from its inaugural Promotional Products Week, which ran from 16-20 September.

CWU serves ballot legal notice

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has served formal legal notice to Royal Mail of its intention to ballot members for industrial action.

Confidence crisis is print's opportunity

In tough times, marketing budgets are typically the first to be squeezed. And this, as any printer working with marketers will tell you, has certainly held true over the past few years.

Royal Mail rejects CWU strike ballot commitment

The Royal Mail has said that a strike ballot scheduled for next week "makes no sense".

Duplo unveils application-focused London Calling 5

Duplo has unveiled some early details of its next London Calling event, which will be held at Somerset House at the end of November.

CWU to ballot for postal strike this month

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced that it will ballot for a national postal strike on 20 September.

CWU firm on strike ballot plans as Royal Mail privatisation confirmed

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has said plans to privatise Royal Mail, confirmed this morning, are a betrayal of the British public and vowed to press ahead with a planned strike ballot on 20...

Communisis buys content marketing specialist

Communisis has increased the size of its design division by around 15% with the 7m acquisition of Editions Publishing.

Printers owed in latest CSDM collapse

Fundraising agency CSDM Fundraising, which fell into administration on 28 June, owed around 400,000 to printers and direct marketing firms, according to the administrator's report.

Print and digital must team up to re-energise both media

At the beginning of the month, newspaper publishing giant News UK catapulted itself onto a new platform of cross-media potential and made the industry as a whole sit up and take notice.

York Mailing acquires Lettershop

York Mailing has ended weeks of speculation and acquired The Lettershop Group in a deal signed last Friday (9 August).

New MD for CFH Slough division

CFH commercial director Jon Marsh has been appointed managing director of Slough-based Print For Business, which was acquired by the transactional mailing company in October 2012.