Print buying

Total advertising spend in UK printed press fell by 11.7% to 900m compared to the same period last year while all other media adspend experienced an increase, figures show.

The Conservative Party has awarded the contract for all of its print and print management requirements in the build up to the 2015 general election to St Ives.

Rival publishers of the <i>Guardian</i> and <i>Telegraph</i> newspapers have clashed over the latter's publication of a rumour that "senior figures" at Guardian News & Media had "seriously discussed"...

The administrators of the four operating companies of Aldersons Print Group are to issue an update on the trading status of the companies next week.

UK software specialist ISL has signed an agreement with online address search provider Postcoder.com that it hopes will boost sales conversion rates through its Catfish web-to-print platform.

DC Thomson is set to roll out Wave2 Media's AdPortal3 print advertising workflow tool across its newspapers business six years after first installing the platform at one of its subsidiaries.

National newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has revealed the merger of its national and regional operations as well as a major management reshuffle and the scrapping of its daily deals site Happli.

HH Global has appointed Jeffery Tolman, a previous deputy chairman and chief executive, strategy, at Saatchi & Saatchi, as a non-executive director.

Ex-Manroland subsidiary ppi Media has appointed Ian Roberts as its UK and Ireland sales agent.