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Greenaways moves to new purpose-built City site

Greenaways has moved into new purpose-built premises based close to Tower Bridge, which will accommodate its dedicated corporate finance and digital businesses

Publishers limber up for waste laws

Magazine publishers are joining forces to pre-empt any legislation that could be enforced for recovering paper waste if the EU decides to apply the principles outlined in the Packaging Waste...

Associations move to form print umbrella body

Picon and the BAPC are to meet with the BPIF to explore the formation of a new umbrella body to "promote and represent the printing industry to the world at large"

Waddies in talks to trial Xerox DI presses

Waddies has had discussions with Xerox about taking its next-generation DI presses and FutureColor on trial when they are ready

PrintPotato eyes non-print buy

PrintPotato.coms share price doubled from 0.75p to 1.5p after the company announced that it was in advanced discussions to acquire another business

Insolvency practitioner called in at CD and DVD specialist Traxdata

An insolvency practitioner has been appointed to South Wales-based CD printing and fulfilment specialist Traxdata Wales

Ex-CEO Brown is blamed for Polestar's downturn

Operating margins fall below 10% and group lays blame for failure to implement its efficiency improvements squarely at the feet of former chief executive Jim Brown. "If the change programmes had been...

Karat 74 Israeli staff to join CreoScitex

Karat Digital Press has closed its Israeli operations and transferred all the staff to CreoScitex, which will provide the imaging systems and software for the 74 Karat DI press

Failures hit men's mag sector

The mens lifestyle magazine sector has been hit by the closures of <i>Sky</i> and <i>Later</i> as a result of poor circulation figures

Planet Repro buyer revealed

The buyer of Planet Repros assets and goodwill has been revealed as a new firm set up by the firms previous joint managing directors

South East print firms deny placing FT for sale ad

Mystery surrounds the identity of a "specialist sheetfed magazine printing company", which appeared in a Business for Sale advertisement in the <i>Financial Times</i> on 5 June

Goss axes 25% of workers at US HQ

Goss Graphic Systems is to axe a quarter of staff at its Illinois headquarters in a bid to cut costs

Speed of Duncan Web Offset's closure rocks the web offset sector

The speed of Duncan Web Offsets closure has sent a shockwave through the industry

Xerox takes huge area at next IPEX

Xerox has unveiled bold plans for IPEX 2002 that will see it topple Heidelbergs long-established position as the events largest single exhibitor

Buyout possibility at Burall Carwood

Label specialist Burall Carwood has been placed into administrative receivership with BDO Stoy Hayward while its management investigates the possibility of a buyout