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Baulch CVA hits envelope firms

Envelope suppliers are among the unsecured creditors of Horsham-based Baulch Mailing Services being asked to accept its proposed company voluntary arrangement (CVA).

Symonds' NatMags role increased as Wilson departs

Alice Symonds, group manufacturing director at the National Magazine Company, will extend her role when Andrew Wilson takes redundancy in June.

Pindar praises group's fantastic year

Pindar chairman Andrew Pindar has praised the Scarborough-based print groups "fantastic progress" in 2001.

Bridge sold to PPL and MBO at Merlin

Print Productions (PPL) has bought the assets and staff of fellow Nottingham-based print management firm Bridge Direct (UK), but several printers are believed to have been hit hard by Bridges demise.

Dorset Printers goes into liquidation

Glasgow-based Dorset Printers has gone into voluntary liquidation, with the loss of 52 jobs, after directors declared it insolvent.

HP personalised print deal will be revealed at Ipex

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will use Ipex to announce details of an "important deal with a major financial company" to print personalised materials, according to Imaging and Printing Systems president...

MPG profits up by 18.5% on last year

MPG (Martins Printing Group) has "turned the corner" and has reported an 18.5% rise in operating profits to 1.01m for the year ending 31 December 2001.

Vio secures 3m equity funds

Vio has secured 3m of equity finance from LMS Capital.

Child leads an MBO from receivers at Clifford Thames

An MBO team headed by director Rick Child has bought the business and assets of Clifford Thames Printing Company from administrative receiver RSM Robson Rhodes, and has set up a new company, Montrose...

Sale of Box Room puts Fulmar in the red

Fulmar chief executive Mike Taylor has described the groups 2001 results as "solid" in the face of tough conditions, and believes it is too early to say whether the market is improving or not.

CIP4 to hold Ipex seminars on JDF applications

The International Co-operation for the integration of processes in pre-press, press and post-press (CIP4) will hold a series of seminars on the Job Definition Format (JDF) at Ipex on Thursday 11...

Nationals opt for Colorbus proofing

Colorbus is making significant inroads into the national newspaper advertising page proofing market.

New automatic 2pp platesetter from HighWater

As many suppliers rush to introduce manually-loaded two-page platesetters to meet the markets demand for affordable 2pp metal plate CTP, HighWater, which pioneered the technology nearly three years...

Alwan offerings on show on NCS stand

NCS Integrated Solutions, the exclusive UK distributor of Alwan Color Expertise products, is to show three new products from the French colour management firm at Ipex.

Comeleon secures biggest orders so far

Comeleon, the imaging technology firm, has received its two largest orders to date for mobile phone covers.