News
Midlands branch for McIntosh
Print management firm Alistair McIntosh has opened a regional office in Birmingham to serve Midlands-based customers.
Photobition in administrative receivership
Arthur Andersen is in the process of being appointed as administrative receiver to Photobition
Cradley
Cradley is disappointed with its results for the year to 30 June and its problems have been compounded by cancellations for a significant amount of autumn work
Heidelberg expects weaker second half
Heidelberg says the initial repercussions of the 11 September attacks have hit its provisional figures for the first half of 2001 and it forecasts weaker figures for the second half of the year
Polestar receives major cash boost
Investcorp has delivered a major vote of confidence in Polestars future by ploughing a further 74.3m into the group
Petty laments loss of director
Polestar Petty is mourning the loss of commercial director John Thompson, who died of a heart attack on Monday (22 October)
September hits Agfa's Q3 results hard
Agfas third-quarter results suffered heavily due to the effect of the terrorist attacks in September and subsequent economic slowdown
Alito poised to buy Keldia's business
Alito Color was on the verge of buying the business of Keldia Printing as PrintWeek went to press after Thomas Potts was ruled out of the race
All@once does photo to print
Norwich-based All@once has used its new Imacon FlexFrame 3020 digital camera back to produce a 1,000-run two-sided A4 leaflet in-house in under 36 hours
Vertis appoints new sales director
Vertis has appointed Ruaraidh Thomas to succeed Alistair Ezzy as UK sales director
Forms manufacturer NEC meets APACS criteria
North East Continuous (NEC) has achieved APACS accreditation at the first attempt and hopes to increase its turnover by 25% this year
Rawlings loses veteran MD and founder aged 88
Kenneth Ballinger Rawlings, chairman and managing director of Ballinger Rawlings has died
Back to basics for a more focused JP
Jarvis Porter is "getting back to where it started being a label producer", but has been hit by interim pre-tax losses after exceptional items of over 8.5m
Stora Enso appoints new MD
Stora Ensos new UK managing director will be John Bardsley
BASF sustains profits course
BASFs Printing Systems division is reporting a strong performance despite market conditions affecting the outlook for its parent company