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The Burlington Press (Cambridge) has been acquired in an MBI by Andrew Tooke, his brother Richard, and Jack Lindop

An "indicative cash bid" has been made for Donside Paper Company just hours after it appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as administrative receiver

The lack of training in printing means it is becoming a science devoid of art and craft, according to Basingstoke Press chairman Gordon Hill

Denmark's Stibo Graphic has emerged as the firm that will take over the printing of the Farnell Electronic Components catalogues from Jarrolds

W&G Baird is expanding its activities into facilities management, and has appointed a new chief operating officer to oversee the enlarged group

Agfa UK's system sales and customer support manager, Ralph Hilsdon, is to head up the firm's European systems integration business in the new year

Astron chief executive David Mitchell hopes to keep the group's "small company feel" after its 92m merger with Tactica Solutions

BPI is closing a manufacturing site and three distribution depots with the loss of 75 jobs as part of its restructuring programme

Slow conversion of Drupa prospects may be the cause of lighter-than-expected supplier order books, according to Picon's latest survey of quarterly trends

Elements, the UK wing of troubled US digital print firm Unidigital, has gone into administrative receivership

The BPIF is "on course" to register all printing and packaging firms that have signed up to its Climate Change Levy (CCL) scheme

Around 45 jobs have been lost at DRB Reprographics, which traded as SynRG, a week after the firms directors approached Begbies Traynor to begin liquidation proceedings

Jarrolds managing director William Mills has insisted the loss of another major catalogue contract wont knock the group off course

Speculation is mounting that Stora Enso is preparing to move in on Bunzl Fine Paper and Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper

The SMS Group has bought back its four Burnham, Slough-based companies from RSM Robson Rhodes after placing them into administrative receivership at the request of director Martin Brown