Business

Close Brothers has reported a 21% rise in pre-tax profits to 163.1m in its preliminary results for the year to 31 July 2013 on the back of increased lending to SMEs.

Wyndeham Group has renewed a printing contract with its longest standing client, Haymarket Media Group, until December 2017, taking the relationship between printer and publisher to 50 years.

Atlantic Coast Studios, which has spent around 40,000 on a new Schneider guillotine, has said the investment was critical to business success.

Communisis group business development director Gurdev Singh has left the company amid a reshuffle of its senior sales staff.

Archant chairman Richard Jewson will retire at the end of 2013.

Manroland Sheetfed has taken its first UK press order since its administration and sale to Langley Holdings in March 2012, from Derbyshire-based fashion house David Nieper.

Litho, digital and wide-format print supplies business Avon Graphic Technologies has been placed in administration.

Duncan Print Group is expanding into food packaging after a recent kit investment and accreditation.

Spectrum Printing Services (SPS) has installed a second Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-5+L five years after taking one of the UK's first XL presses.