Print buying

Cross Media 2013 opened for business today (23 October) with a line-up of exhibitors including big names such as Konica Minolta, Layar and Brand Perfect and high hopes on visitor numbers.

Neil Mendoza, founder of Forward publishing, has been appointed chairman of The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts.

Polestar Sheffield has become the first UK printing plant to be awarded the Nordic Ecolabel environmental accreditation.

Geoff Rowley, Phil Armstrong and Andrew Sheridan, partners at FRP Advisory, have been appointed joint administrators to the Charles Gee Group of Companies and several of its trading subsidiaries.

Urban Cottage Industries (UCI) and Print Club London have launched Cardpress, a personalised greetings card business with a difference.

Clays has printed British singer-songwriter Morrissey's memoirs, <i>Autobiography</i>, which has controversially been published under the Penguin Classics imprint.

Postal workers at the Royal Mail have voted in favour of strike action by a ratio of 4:1 in the recent national ballot, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has just announced.

Pixartprinting is offering its clients a new free sample book that demonstrates the range of rigid materials available for printing with its flatbed Durst P10 wide format printer.

Fulfilment bureau Air Business has signed a contract worth over 10m with publishing and exhibition business UKIP Media and Events to focus on printed marketing material.

A consultation to tackle the problem of late payments to small businesses will launch later this year, following criticism of the Prompt Payment Code.