Howitt has placed its loss-making Croydon arm into administration, but has reported strong results elsewhere in the group.

Communisis is to consolidate all direct mail production at its Leeds site and will cease production at Altrincham over the next few months.

Astron has secured a 15m three-year print and marketing deal with the Britannia Building Society.

Astron founder and president David Mitchell (pictured right) is to stand down from the company a year after selling it to RR Donnelley for 520m.

4DM Group is to make its first move into full-colour digital printing with a Xerox iGen3 ordered at Ipex.

<i>PrintWeek</i> assembled a trio of some of UK prints most entrepreneurial chief executives at Ipex to discuss how innovation had been key to their business successes.

St Ives posted interim figures in line with expectations this week and said it would weather the challenging conditions more successfully than our competitors.

Xerox racked up several sales of its flagship digital colour press, the iGen3, on the first day of Ipex.

Students from Northgate High School in Ipswich were declared winners of the inaugural PrintIT! awards ceremony, which took place at Ipex on 8 April.

On the closing day of Ipex 2006, industry association Picon revealed that it had sold the show to its organiser IIR Exhibitions.