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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.

Precision Colour Printing is investing for growth with fresh web press capacity and additional bindery kit.

The Dartford-based print firm has installed a further envelope inserting line in response to an uplift in direct mail and door drop work.

Affinion International Print Services has invested in its second inserter from CMC Machinery in 18 months to bring the direct mail firm's finishing capabilities in line with print output.

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

Retail giant Tesco has a new head of marketing procurement for print, paper and post following the departure of Katleen Pelsmakers.

St Ives is in consultation with the workforce at its St Ives Direct site in Bradford about outsourcing the enclosing side of the operation.

CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.

There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

Inc Direct has upgraded its digital print production facilities as a result of the company's successful embrace of cross-media, which it said was now "pulling like a train".