Receivership & administration

Kodak has dismissed claims made by an intellectual property consultancy that it has retained valuable patents that were supposed to become the property of the Kodak UK Pension Plan.

Birmingham bookbinders and print finishing firm Henry Mills closed its doors on Friday (22 November) after 157 years of trading.

PrintWeek has learned that an offer has been made for Prospect Mailing Services.

Bradford-based Prospect Mailing Services has been placed in administration six weeks after parent firm Cogent B2B bought rival direct mail business St Ives Direct Bradford for £8m.

High-quality corporate print specialist The Colourhouse has closed its doors after the directors ran out of time to save the business.

Independent logistics business CM Downton has bought the Charles Gee Group subsidiary C&H (Hauliers), a major supplier to UK newspaper printers, from administrators FRP Advisory.

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.

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

Fundraising agency CSDM Fundraising, which fell into administration on 28 June, owed around 400,000 to printers and direct marketing firms, according to the administrator's report.

South East London commercial printer Newgate Concise has appointed liquidators Bailey Ahmad after suddenly closing its doors in mid-August.