Contracts

HH expands market reach with Sara Lee contract win
HH Associates has won a EUR 15m (12.9m) three-year pan-European print management contract with the global consumer brand manufacturer Sara Lee.

BSkyB axes two magazines, Sky Magazine to go quarterly
BSkyB is to make dramatic reductions to its magazine work, dropping its bi-monthly Sky Movies and Sports magazines and cutting its monthly Sky Magazine to a quarterly frequency.

FST Technologies speaks out on Sky contract loss
Livingston printer FST Technologies has spoken out on the loss of its Sky contract, which will move to GI Solutions in Leicester.

Ice loyalty scheme chooses PCS for first UK project
Sustainable loyalty card scheme Ice has chosen Plastic Card Services (PCS) to produce cards for its inaugural UK project.

PM promises SMEs access to government contracts worth bns
A raft of measures aimed at making sure small firms are in "the best possible position to compete for billions of pounds' of [public sector] contracts" has been announced by the Cabinet Office.

Tenders revamp is welcome, but the devil is in the detail
Great news for many of you reading this: the government has listened to SMEs and is shaking up the way public sector tenders are managed.

Stephens & George secures 4m Haymarket print deal
Stephens & George (S&G) has won a three-year contract with Haymarket Media Group to print the publisher's weekly and monthly sheetfed B2B titles in a deal worth up to 4m.
Printer involved in political tiff
Portsmouth-based Bishops Printers has been at the centre of a political tiff after it printed products for a Scottish MP who is a self-proclaimed champion of local businesses.

Transactis staff still at risk following RR Donnelley contract award
More than 250 jobs are at risk at Transactis's Liverpool-based reprographics, print and mailing site following last week's 'sale' of the business to RR Donnelley.

De La Rue still in talks over Reserve Bank of India contract
De La Rue's contract with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) remains in limbo, according to the printer's interim statement, which confirmed that banknote paper production for the RBI was still suspended...