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