Print buying

A new ISO standard has mapped out a common method for calculating the carbon footprint of printed products.

Web-to-print firm Moo.com has added three new additions to its luxury business stationery line, Luxe.

Modus Creative has bought local web design agency Blue Tesla Marketing as part of a strategy to immerse itself in cross-media and more than double its turnover to £3m over the next three years.

Big-name speakers in print and marketing have confirmed they will talk at Cross Media 2013, which features more than 50 seminars in five theatres for the two-day event.

Motique Plastics has brought a new Japanese method of producing domed badges and emblems to the UK market.

Oxford commercial printer Holywell Press is targeting growth after adding on-demand book production to its portfolio with a Horizon BQ270V perfect binder.

York Mailing has secured a major vote of confidence in print, becoming the first printing company to receive a multi-milllion pound investment via the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

Guardian News & Media (GNM) has posted pre-tax losses of 30.9m for the 12 months to 31 March 2013, reduced from 44.2m last year.

Pre-media business Rhapsody has appointed digital marketing and media consultant John Rahim into a newly created role of head of digital.

Paperlinx has opened an office in Shanghai, China to serve as its Asia sales office and also offer a route to expand its European portfolio of products manufactured in Asia.