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A specialist supplier of barcoding technology has been fined £500,000 after a fatal forklift incident.

Five former employees of PFI Group subsidiary Futurama have been awarded nearly £120,000 in total after a judge found they had been unfairly or wrongfully dismissed.

Reach has proposed the reduction of its total workforce by an estimated 450 full-time roles as part of the cost reduction programme it announced in March.

Parry Jones has been appointed CEO of media planning and buying agency The Specialist Works and its parent company What’s Possible Group.

Gill Tress, business services director at commercial printer SF Taylor, has celebrated her 40th year at the 97-year-old Stockport firm.

Denmaur co-founder Nick Gee will retire at the end of the firm’s current financial year, after four decades at the paper and board merchant.

Peter Scott, founder of the Burnley-based commercial print business that bears his name, has passed away after a short illness.

Jack is 30 and has been working at Bluetree Group since 2021.

As ever, the Knowledge Bank section is the meat in our Printweek sandwich, nestled between our six-page news round-up and the Product Portfolio section.

The latest version of the Level 3 Print Technician Standard for apprentices has been rubber-stamped by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE).