Print buying

H Bauer is celebrating a shift to soft proofing after using recently installed ICS Remote Director for the production of new cookery magazine <i>Eat In</i>.

JCDecaux will continue to "change the landscape in print" after capping 10 years of investment in the capital by launching a new division, JCDecaux London.

The recession is pushing more print buying work into the hands of print managers, with the heaviest focus on cost reduction rather than other added-value services, according to sector leaders.

Print buyers have given mixed blessings to calls for a universal environmental labelling scheme designed to prevent "greenwashing".

Print management company Adare has won a contract to handle print and mailing for finance provider Homeloan Management Limited (HML).

Two procurement industry bodies have stressed that ethical and sustainable buyer-supplier relationships are key to healthy supply chains in the recession.

Eco-focused print buyers have welcomed a print industry carbon calculator as a way to simplify and promote environmental best practice.

TNT has signed a contract with Brightsource to handle charity mailings from the company, which sends out one in seven of all UK fundraising mailings.

The in-flight magazine sector is in rude health and is driving UK print volumes, despite airlines announcing reviews to titles, said leading customer publishers.