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Business card specialist Full Colour Cards (FCC) has boosted revenue by expanding into Europe.

The BPIF and NAPM will join forces for a paper forum in London next week to examine the longer term outlook for the cost of paper and the effect this will have on print and paper companies.

Laminator manufacturer Autobond has made its first sale into Lithuania in 44 years of trading.

Web-to-print firm Moo.com has acquired personal identity platform Flavors.me for an undisclosed sum after six months of negotiations.

ABP Web administrators Duff & Phelps have been confirmed as the administrators for the remaining four Alderson Print Group companies.

Litho printer Printworks North is to open a wide format plant in Wakefield following successful diversification into the market.

Former prime minister Sir John Major has predicted that the "darkest moment" of the recession has passed and that 'green shoots' of recovery are on the way.

The total value of digital fiction book sales increased 188% year-on-year in the first half of 2012, but printed book sales value declined by 0.4%.

Digitl Ink is developing two water-based inks for direct printing onto textiles and fabrics.

Newspapers and magazine inserts are bucking the downward trend of printed media according to new figures which show a 6% year-on-year increase between 2010 and 2011.

Fespa's exhibition website has gone live with the campaign strapline 'Your destination for print'.

Eclipse Colour has acquired the remaining shares of 4DM, completing the buyout of founders Charles Grant-Salmon and Les Ritchie it began in February 2011 with the purchase of an initial 10% stake.

Web-offset publishing printer BGP has won a three-year agreement with Dennis Publishing worth around 3m per year.

Hawthornes of Nottingham looks set for liquidation after a meeting of creditors was scheduled for 24 September by KPMG following instruction from the company's directors.

F1 Colour has doubled the size of its in-house web development team with a second appointment in two months in web developer Daniel Hill.