Print buying

Colour management software firms GMG and matchmycolour have partnered to create compatible databases for more efficient colour management.

Gas and electricity supplier Npower has renewed its transactional mail contract with Opus Trust Marketing for another three years in a multi-million pound deal.

Bristol-based printers Taylor Brothers has been selected to print new, high-quality food and travel magazine, <i>Cereal</i>.

Newly-formed newspaper publisher Local World has completed its acquisitions of Northcliffe Media and Iliffe News & Media.

English historic conservation body English Heritage (EH) is running a series of internal print buying workshops to improve the standards and efficiency of its print materials.

Leicestershire police are treating a fire that destroyed Arden Direct Marketing's 19th century factory in Barwell last week as "suspicious".

Readers Digest UK has cut 95 staff from its 120-strong workforce with immediate effect, citing declining book, DVD and CD sales.

Polestar Varnicoat looks set to close after the company kicked off a 30 day consultation at the site on Wednesday (2 January).

Printing.com has signed up the first customers to its white label W3P hosted web-to-print platform, after 10 of its franchisees made the switch thereby dropping the franchise network's own branding.

Informa Exhibitions has highlighted the "real appetite from European PSPs" for print trade shows in a response to Xerox's "regrettable" decision to pull out of Ipex 2014.