Companies & suppliers

St Ives' shares hit a 52-week high of 107.93 on Monday as it published its interim management statement for the first 14 weeks of its 2012/13 financial year.

Cheltenham-based print manager Brightsource has invested in a new web-based document editor, Aproove, in an effort to improve its client experience and speed approval cycles.

Panda Press, the Staffordshire-based print and design company, has spent 50,000 on a Xerox 700i digital printer from equipment supplier Complete Imaging.

Wide format equipment reseller Stanford Marsh Group (SMG) is offering interest free loans on wide format rental agreements.

Magazine printer Headley Brothers has bought a new Goss M-600 press to replace two older Heidelberg machines.

The anticipated sale of Sir John Madejski's Goodhead Group is still to be confirmed.

De La Rue posted a 3% rise in first half revenue and pre-tax profits in its interim statement yesterday (27 November), despite a 15% drop in banknote paper volumes.

Scottish print firm Armstrong Printing appointed provisional liquidators on 29 October after it filed a winding up plea with the Sheriff of Tayside Central and Fife.

Sun Chemical Europe has announced a "high single digit" price increase across all of its product lines from 1 January 2013.

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