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Hewlett-Packards Imaging & Printing Group (IPG) continues to be the firms cash cow, generating the strongest growth and profits following its merger with Compaq.

Publishing Paper Solutions has reached an agreement with paper management software provider Perfected Solutions to establish a new joint venture, Perfected Paper Solutions.

A student at the University of Salford has won a Sony Design Award for a mobile phone design made from paper at this years Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce...

Polestar will print 30m catalogues for The Cotswold Company over the next two years after it was retained as printer for the list generating insert catalogue.

On-the-ball thinking landed Northwich-based print management company Thinkprint an order to print thousands of mini footballs for Tesco stores across Ireland.

Preprint Imaging in Leeds has done all the repro for the World Cup Guide Book, published by CF Media in four countries, amounting to a total print run of 330,000 copies.

Bayer, the German chemical firm, has sold its 30% stake in pre-press supplier Agfa and will plough the 128m gain into expansion.

Thomas Potts' new chief executive Mark Scanlon plans to get the groups companies to operate in a more orchestrated fashion to produce a more integrated service.

The gravure market is buzzing with talk of two groups considering investing in new UK plants.

De La Rue is reviewing its non-banknote security printing operations after revealing below par year-end results for the division.

The BPIF is to quiz its members on their growing fears over pensions after a report revealed a quarter of small businesses are to axe their final salary schemes.

Ousted Polestar chief executive Jim Brown received a 1m compensation payout.

Smith & McLaurin, the labelstock manufacturer based in Kilbarchan, near Glasgow, has gone into administration with KPMG after suffering from overcapacity, price cuts and declining sales.

The GPMU has held negotiations with BemroseBooth over proposals for 30 redundancies at its Hull plant.

KBA has been affected by "aggressive price competition" in the web sector during the first quarter of 2002, but its revenues and pre-tax profits still increased.