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The current trading status of Anton Group is unclear, with a number of sources reporting that the business effectively ceased trading yesterday.

GI Solutions Group has appointed a new managing director for the recently acquired Eclipse 4DM business, and is poised to roll out a digital re-equip at the site.

Anton Group has been placed in administration with more than 100 of its 300–plus workforce made redundant.

Whistl, the UK’s second largest postal services provider, has reported a boost in underlying profits despite a dip in sales in its first full year following its MBO.

Former St Ives director Neil Evans has joined DMS Agency as its new chief executive.

You could blame Amazon; its relentless focus on shortening delivery times infected the rest of high-street retail and ultimately spread further afield, including to print.

Direct mail service provider Howard Hunt has installed the second of two Böwe Systec Fusion Cross high speed inserting systems at its Dartford site and is considering a third.

US group DST Systems has confirmed that it expects the sale of its UK customer communications business to be completed by the summer.

Communisis has spent around £1.5m on Pitney Bowes inserting lines to ramp up its mailing flexibility.

CMS started in 1996 when a few rugby club friends started discussing a suggestion by current chairman, Tim Tucker, “over a round of bitter lemons”.