Receivership & administration

The assets of Leeds-based Jade Press are being sold off following its fall into administration after 16 years of trading.

Stationery printer Blackburns of Bolton's assets have been sold in a bid to recoup creditors' dividends as sale prospects disappear following its fall into administration.

East London printer Blackhammer has ceased trading with all staff made redundant, following the appointment of administrators last month.

Mathias Bauerle (MB) has been saved from closure by a buyout team including its existing management team, UK distributor and an unnamed Swiss investor.

Scottish print firm Armstrong Printing appointed provisional liquidators on 29 October after it filed a winding up plea with the Sheriff of Tayside Central and Fife.

Local newspaper publisher Tri Media Newspapers has been bought back by its director after falling into administration.

Eastman Kodak has been told it must sell its digital imaging patent portfolio for "no less than $500m" as a condition of a new interim and exit finance facility totalling nearly $800m.

Neil Alderson has set up a new company, Centrical Technologies, initially backed by Peter Alderson and Neil's father Ron Alderson.

Unsecured creditors of the five operating companies of Alderson Print Group (APG) were owed a combined 5.1m at the time of their administration, according to the creditors report.

Eastman Kodak has posted double digit increases in its pre-tax and net loss in its third quarter results.