Print buying

Evolution Print is helping Welcome to Yorkshire 'turn Yorkshire yellow' ahead of next year's Tour de France, which will start in the county.

Retail chain the Co-operative will withdraw lads' mags from its shelves after 9 September unless publishers place the titles in 'modesty bags'.

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

Tall Group secure cheque printing operation Checkprint has reconfigured part of its Leicestershire facility and installed a raft of new equipment.

Polestar has renewed its contract to print a range of journals for the British Medical Association.

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.

Alpha Media Solutions (AMS), one of the two companies that emerged from the collapse of Scorpio Print Finishing in 2006, has fallen into administration with the loss of all 61 jobs.

Renowned designer David Bartlett has launched a new range of cardboard furniture blanks that can be overprinted with custom designs.

Print management firm HH Global has won a three-year contract to provide electronics giant Siemens with global end-to-end print services.

CPI Group could soon be under new ownership if a proposed takeover deal comes to fruition.