Companies & suppliers

SP Group, the retail and POS division of St Ives, has sealed a £1m contract with Holland & Barrett's parent company NBTY Europe.

Intelligent Finishing Systems' managing director Tony Hards has been clothed as a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.

The North East-based commercial printer initially forecast a 1.8m sales boost after securing funds from Yorkshire Bank, but PBL now expects an uplift in excess of 3m.

The community of HP graphic arts customers has detailed its inaugural EMEA conference, which will take place this November.

Mastercolour has installed the UK's first six-colour KBA Rapida 75E after it ordered the press at Drupa as a replacement for two five-colour KBA Rapida presses.

Printing.com has announced the departure of board member and head of its Dutch-subsidiary Media Facility Group (MFG), Hans Scheffer, as it gears up for the roll-out of its "third generation"...

Intoprint UK is the latest North East printer to attract funding from a turnaround fund that invests in SMEs to boost their profit and capacity.

At the paper company's AGM on 1 August chairman Mark Cropper voiced concern that the market conditions causing the decline were showing no sign of abating.

HP is to take an $8bn (5.1bn) goodwill charge this quarter after writing down the value of a division that sells computer services to businesses.

The Wyndeham Group subsidiary has signed a deal with Egmont Publishing Group after it won the contract to produce new Disney Pixar magazine, <i>Brave</i>.