Printers

Print profit margins are up at St Ives as the group says it has achieved a "fundamental realignment" of its overall business.

St Ives has announced the sale of its Bradford-based direct mail business, St Ives Direct Bradford, to Cogent B2B for 8m.

Tesco has replaced its bi-monthly Tesco Real Food and A5 format Tesco magazine with a new-look A4 title that will have one of the highest circulations in the UK.

By his own admission, DST Output UK chief executive Jeremy Walters has had to be a fast learner throughout his career. And his latest challenge is learning US English, since he took up the reins at...

French security printer Oberthur Technologies will launch a joint bid with the UK-based private security firm G4S for the Bank of England's 1bn next generation banknote contract, according to Reuters.

York Mailing has become the first UK printer to be awarded an EU Ecolabel license for printed paper products.

John Watson & Co has been bought by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Multi-Color Corporation (MCC) less than a year after the collapse of its proposed sale to Canadian labels group CCL Industries.

Colorscan Imaging Products has installed an EFI Jetrion 4900M digital label press as part of a 3m expansion.

Spin Print Solutions has installed a five-colour Hans Gronhi B3 press and ordered an additional two-colour model as part of a 600,000 litho, digital and finishing kit spend.

Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.