Print buying
Print industry news roundup: Fidelity, IOS, BPIF, Five Castles, Label Solutions
Stay up to date with your procurement supply chain thanks to print industry news at your fingertips. This week: Fidelity early with new Xerox; IOS press rationalisation begins; BPIF Outlook shows...

Communisis increases profit, continues cost reduction
Communisis has increased its profit by almost 50% year-on-year in the first half of 2011 as it continues to transform its business through capital investment, new contract wins and ongoing cost...

Royal Mail U-turn on 'Delivered by Royal Mail' consultation
Royal Mail has reversed its decision not to hold a consultation with clients on the new Delivered by Royal Mail stamp, which was due to be launched in mid-September and is now expected to be delayed...

Opus launches digital editions of luxury books
Opus Media, producer of limited edition luxury large format books is to extend its brand into digital editions for the first time.

Brands mix it up with multiformat promo campaigns
It wasn't until the last few years that the print industry really began to embrace cross-media services, despite the fact that capability to run a multichannel campaign has been around for some time....

Turn on and tune in to all the channels
Think of it this way: if you had no experience of flying a plane, you would not jump into the pilot's seat of a 747 and try and fly 300 passengers to the Bahamas. It's the same principal for...

DM sector slams 'arrogant' Royal Mail over Mark Design Specification change
Royal Mail has been slammed for its decision to alter the Mark Design Specification (MDS) by introducing a Delivered by Royal Mail mark to all machineable UK post.

Wyndeham and Haymarket agree to 'fair prices' in contract extension
Wyndeham has extended its contract with Haymarket Media Group to December 2015 in a deal that will see print prices increased from July 2011.
RR Donnelley wins $300m Meredith print management deal
RR Donnelley announced it has been awarded a $300m multi-year print management agreement by Meredith, the leading US publisher of magazines and other content targeting American women.

Xerox GDO beats Williams Lea to combined Lloyds Banking Group contract
Xerox Global Document Outsourcing has won the print management contract for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group, following the merger of the HBOS and Lloyds TSB contracts.