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The first meeting of the Leicestershire Print Forum attracted nearly 50 representatives from local print firms and business support organisations.

Polestar Colchester has reinstated former shift manager Paul Brotherton after losing an unfair dismissal case at Bury St Edmunds employment tribunal court.

<i>York & County Press </i>has become the first newspaper to enrol printing staff on Print Media Online, the internet-based learning facility developed by Leeds College of Technology.

South Wales firm Hackman Print Group has brought its production facilities and staff under one roof to ease the pressure caused by split-site production.

The management team at Hydro-Dynamic Products plans to buy the company, nearly six years after its listing on the stock market, in a bid to save costs.

International Papers (IP) Inverurie mill is being touted as a possible site for the new 418m pulp mill project in Scotland (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 12 January 2001).

Tech-ni-Fold founder and inventor Graham Harris has secured the UK patent for the firms Tri-Creaser and is set to preview his latest product at Ipex.

Johnston Press, the acquisitive regional newspaper publisher based in Edinburgh, has nearly completed the 40m upgrade of its printing facilities and is poised to buy Regional Independent Medias (RIM)...

Kappa Attica will demonstrate the properties of its new heavyweight solid board, Printline, on Heidelbergs Speedmaster CD 74 machines at Ipex by producing desktop mobile phone holders.

SR Communications says its January turnover of 1.8m was the highest monthly sales figure it has achieved in 22 years of business.

Former Colorgraphic sales and marketing director Nick Dixon is poised to return to the industry with a new venture.

Former Nuffield Web Offset managing director Tony Britton has returned to his newspaper roots with a new role at Express Newspapers.

Book group CPI has entered into a partnership with ebrary, a provider of information retrieval and distribution services.

All the production partners are now in place for the official show newspaper at Ipex the <i>PrintWeek</i>-produced <i>Ipex Daily</i>.

Pira has published its <i>UK Printing 2002 </i>report, which it claims provides a "complete picture" of the UK market.