Transactional printer Stralfors UK brought its Kent-based facilities under one roof… More than 250 jobs were put at risk at Transactis’s Liverpool-based site after it was sold to RR Donnelley…

Paper and board merchant Doric Anderton saved 29 jobs when it acquired Crimped Paper Works… The Express Group’s move to Luton was unofficially confirmed by a local MP…

Maurice Payne, founder of Theale, Reading-based Maurice Payne Colourprint, passed away… Etrinsic secured a multi-year contract with the National Grid worth more than £3m per annum… Granite Colour went into administration after the failure of its subsidiary business, The Good News Press and its assets and goodwill were subsequently bought by Park Communications…

SV Two Digital went into liquidation owing more than £1m to creditors, with the loss of 12 jobs, less than six months after its litho sister company closed… MDA Creative went into administration after losing one of its biggest regular contracts…

Adare completely revamped its Huddersfield site as part of a £3m investment in new machines… The company formerly known as Eurogloss Print Finishers closed its doors forever after going into liquidation… Printers raised concerns over impact of the VAT rise… RR Donnelley bought the business of former CDMS firm Transactis…