Companies & suppliers

Xerox XMPie personalisation software users can now embed web-to-print onto their customers' Facebook pages, enabling them to order branded print materials.

News International has paid 30m to Johnston Press in an agreement to terminate its long-term printing contract.

Shuttleworth Business Systems and ROI360 will exhibit on a joint stand at this autumn's Cross Media 2012 trade show at London's Business Design Centre.

Ex St Ives marketing director Rob Kelly has re-entered the print production arena after acquiring the South London large format business with business partner Peter Sheldrick.

Muswell Hill, London-based PIP Printing has signed a multi-machine deal with finishing equipment supplier Ashgate Automation

St Ives Direct Leeds is set to be closed after St Ives announced plans to consolidate its direct mail offering at its Bradford facility.

Buckingham-based print business BCQ Print has invested in Fujifilm's XMF cross-media workflow to help "increase the efficiency, quality and consistency of its output".

CTP manufacturer Luscher has signed a "global distribution partnership" with Polytype SA, the South American arm of packaging print systems manufacturer Wifag Polytype.

UPM has sold its Kajaani sawmill to wood processing company Plkky Oy in Finland.

BGP has printed 1.5m copies of two booklets featuring 40 vegetarian recipes from celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for Telegraph Media Group, for inclusion in this weekend's newspapers.