Business

The first national strike ballot of Royal Mail workers since 2009 could go ahead by September after 500 Communication Workers Union (CWU) representatives voted unanimously for the move.

Saul Loggenberg, former director of failed printer Clowes, has been banned from being a UK company director for 11 years following an investigation by The Insolvency Service.

Antonio Perez will continue as Kodak's chief executive, at least for a period, when the company emerges from Chapter 11.

A French court has accepted a proposed 2.4m deal from Goss International to restructure its operations in France, leaving just 123 positions across two sites.

The former director of collapsed Cromwell Press has pleaded guilty to false accounting after initially denying the charges against him.

Directors of Eastbourne-based technical services supplier Veritek Global have led a management buyout of the business after securing a combined debt and equity funding package.

Tall Group secure cheque printing operation Checkprint has reconfigured part of its Leicestershire facility and installed a raft of new equipment.

A Spanish appeals court has backed an earlier ruling that claims of patent infringement brought against Cretaprint are meritless.

Sequana, the French paper group that owns Arjowiggins and Antalis, has reported a sales slump of 9% in the first half of 2013, citing a "sharp decline in demand for printing papers in Europe".

Polestar has renewed its contract to print a range of journals for the British Medical Association.