Print buying

St Ives's half-year pre-tax profits have fallen by almost two thirds even though sales increased 5% year on year, according to figures released this morning.

BBC Magazines has renewed its contract with Polestar for the production of Radio Times for a further four years, until 2013, following a review of the publisher's production options.

The march of the e-book stumbled forward last week when Japanese electronics company Fujitsu unveiled the world's first colour reader device, to mixed responses.

H Bauer is celebrating a shift to soft proofing after using recently installed ICS Remote Director for the production of new cookery magazine <i>Eat In</i>.

JCDecaux will continue to "change the landscape in print" after capping 10 years of investment in the capital by launching a new division, JCDecaux London.

The recession is pushing more print buying work into the hands of print managers, with the heaviest focus on cost reduction rather than other added-value services, according to sector leaders.

Print buyers have given mixed blessings to calls for a universal environmental labelling scheme designed to prevent "greenwashing".

Print management company Adare has won a contract to handle print and mailing for finance provider Homeloan Management Limited (HML).

Two procurement industry bodies have stressed that ethical and sustainable buyer-supplier relationships are key to healthy supply chains in the recession.