Ruddocks celebrated its 140th anniversary... IG Design Group confirmed that the recent UK budget measures will add around £556,000 to annual operating costs... H&H Reeds was acquired by an MBO team... Lancashire Laminators underwent a change of ownership, with its former production director taking a majority share in the business... Ashford Colour Press filed a Notice of Intention to Appoint Administrators, with the news sending a shockwave around the book printing and publishing world... Dataline expanded with the acquisition of German firm Pragma Informationssysteme... Think Signs acquired graphic design and printing company Fresh Graphic Solutions... Blackburn’s Modern Bookbinders announced it will close in late December after 94 years in business, with machinery, customer book and website up for sale... German paper and packaging group Palm acquired John Hargreaves (Collyhurst & Stalybridge), a circa 200-year-old business based in Stalybridge... Heidelberg increased factory working hours by around 14% as it geared up for a busy H2 delivering on a big post-Drupa order backlog... Assets with a value of £1.3m were stolen from the site of QC Polymer, a plastic bottle recycling company, that went into administration. It was discovered that the entire rPET recycling plant had been stolen... Directors at Lexon made the drastic decision to close immediately after trading became “untenable”... Rapidity re-entered the litho game with a new £1.5m division at its Sidcup site... Serendipity Software launched a new tool to support RGB workflows for digital printing... Glasgow whisky and spirit labelling specialist Spirit Label Solutions was bought out of administration by Spirit Labels, a new company founded by a local businessman... Pureprint acquired the Ashford Colour Press digital business out of administration, dramatically increasing its book printing capacity and adding a big chunk of inkjet printing... Brightsea Print Group acquired Hedgerow Print... Research from Marketreach revealed that mail is more likely to have had an influence on voting intention than any other marketing channel across all ages... Rymack Sign Solutions was being wound up by the Official Receiver, following a court order to that effect. The company, which traded as PFI Group, had been in a state of limbo for months... Lindley Print and Design celebrated its 100th anniversary in business... Lecta spun off its self-adhesive labels business into a standalone company... The Delta Group continued its kit megaspend with an order for the world’s first Lamina 07.10 Packline hotmelt packing line... National World’s biggest shareholder launched a £56.2m takeover bid for the publisher...