Companies & suppliers

Swiss Post International UK (SPI UK) has bought the Southampton-based direct marketing company MCM Direct for an undisclosed sum as part of its push into the UK retail market.

Creo Retail Marketing produced the in-store point-of-sale (POS) and window displays for menswear chain Moss' Spring/Summer 2010 collection across the group's 150+ stores.

Leeds-based Slatcom has developed a display system that can be retrofitted to slatwalls offering a low-cost and simple-to-install method to add graphics to the common shop fittings.

German press manufacturer Heidelberg has recorded a "significant fall in sales and profit" in its 2009/10 preliminary full-year results.

Heidelberg is to use Ipex as the worldwide springboard for a new B1 press, the 16,500 sheets-per-hour Speedmaster CX 102.

The Indian paper industry ranks 15th, globally. Ashok Java analyses the impact of the hike in paper prices, shortage in pulp and emerging growth in the Indian printing industry

Xerox will give a European launch to the 800/1000 - a high-end sheetfed colour press that sits between the 8002 and the iGen, at Ipex next month.

HP has launched its first 3D printer, which forms part of the Designjet range.

Agfa has decided on a direct sales strategy for its recently-acquired Jeti range of wide-format printers in the UK.