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Serigraphic, part of Thomas Potts, has made 12 of its 55 staff redundant after a slackening of demand. The Harlow-based firm has also appointed a new production director, Chris Guess.

Trinity Mirrors regional press improvement is continuing with an 11m investment into new press facilities in Teesside.

Heidelberg has hit back in the struggle to secure orders in the tough commercial web market after The Artisan Press, the Leicester brochure and magazine printer, signed up for a 48pp gapless Sunday...

Polestar has retained the services of former Watmoughs managing director Doug Richardson, who will work on manufacturing performance from the groups head office.

The DTI claims that measures included in its new white paper, Modernising Company Law, will renew confidence and save small firms 170m a year.

Magazine printers could face more pressure next year after the PPA warned that A4 magazines, as well as A3 publications, would suffer under the Royal Mails plans to introduce size-based pricing...

Hyway Printing Services administrator, RSM Robson Rhodes, has received over 20 enquiries about the London-based City and fine art print group since its appointment last Friday evening (12 July).

Wheatley Packaging, the Scunthorpe-based flexible packaging printer, has been bought by Austrian packaging group Frantschach.

Jarrolds has lost out after the <i>Financial Times </i>opted to stop producing its Saturday magazine, <i>The Business</i>, due to a decline in advertising.

Phil Judd, the former managing director of Sonicon, is back in print after acquiring a majority stake in west London-based fine art specialist PJ Print.

Colour Systems has expanded its repro contract with <i>Readers Digest </i>beyond the UK to cover 19 European editions.

Printing companies are employing fewer staff as technology boosts efficiency and changes shift patterns, according to a new survey.

De La Rues market value slumped by almost two-fifths this week after the group issued a profit warning for the first half of the year.

Creditors of Aspire Print & Repro have expressed anger after the firm fell into liquidation with substantial trade debts.

Loudwater, the Milton Keynes-based greetings card group, has set up a new division to specialise in printing onto plastics.