Printers

Santa Ana, CA-based Foster Printing has bought a new KBA Rapida 205 81-inch, six-color UV press in order to meet demand for larger formats in everything from point-of-purchase displays to packaging.

Gemini Group has invested in a raft of new litho and digital kit, including two new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL presses, as part of a "long overdue" 3.4m capital equipment upgrade.

Alderson Print Group (APG) has labelled Barclays a "disgrace" as it continued its battle to save its ABP Web division from administration.

Johnston Press saw the number of monthly visits to its mobile platforms increase by 100% in the six months to 30 June, although it posted declines in group turnover and operating and pre-tax profits.

The family-owned printer has produced a limited edition collectors' card for Royal Mail's Gold Medal Stamps, whicih depicts Team GB's victories at the London 2012 Games.

Alderson Print Group has blamed Barclays for putting the jobs of its 250 staff at risk as it prepared to file a notice of intent to appoint an administrator for its ABP web division.

Digital printer Integrated Graphics has been bought by its former sales director Jeffrey Mayho.

Barclays has hit back at claims from Alderson Print Group that it is to blame for the impending administration of the company's ABP web division.

River Group has appointed Polestar to produce new in-store title Scent after it won the contract from retail chain The Perfume Store.

Publisher DC Thomson has announced that the December issue of Britain's longest-running children's comic, <i>The Dandy</i>, will be its last printed edition after readership dwindled to less than...