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DfWP considers outsourcing

The Department for Work & Pensions is conducting an exploratory exercise into the feasibility of outsourcing its 50m-70m annual print spend through a print management company

Carrs in search of director after Bevington quits

Carrs Paper carbonless sales director Chris Bevington has left the company

Freedman services on the net

A marketing-services agent is to target print hardware firms with a new system to manage all their marketing print needs

Williams Lea wins 75m insurer deal

Williams Lea has won another massive outsourcing deal with a major insurer, signing a five-year 75m deal with Royal & SunAlliance

Print UK set for EU premiere of Heidelberg's DI

Heidelbergs next-generation DI press, which will be launched at Print 01 in Chicago next month, will be shown for the first time in Europe at Print UK

Staff at Lennox McKinlay go to the customers

Design and print company Lennox McKinlay is making life easier for its clients by sending employees to work on customer premises

Indigo on track for end-of-year profits

Indigo has said that despite making a second-quarter loss it remains confident of returning to profitability by the end of the year

M-real condemns EU for irresponsible production

One of the worlds leading papermakers has had an angry dig at European firms for blasting out full capacity and dropping prices

Presstek hires pre-production chief for US site

Presstek aims to smash bottlenecks that blighted its production last year with a newly created post

TPT's software sales to include RealTimeProof

Turning Point Technologies (TPT) has become a distributor of RealTimeImages RealTimeProof software

Takeover rumours boost Sappi stock

Sappi is once again the subject of speculation over a potential takeover bid following a rise in its share price of over 5% to 6.45

UPM profits suffer as fine paper dips

UPM-Kymmene has reported interim review figures for the period January to June 2001, showing that although turnover rose during the period, operating profits for the second quarter, particularly in...

Outsider is heir to Sun throne

Sun Chemical has appointed an outsider as heir apparent to worldwide chief Henri Dyner, and has named the successor to Europes Andy Cova

Environmental levy wasted by larger printers

The BPIF has said that some larger printers could be wasting thousands of pounds a year by not applying for the 80% climate change levy rebate that was negotiated by the federation

Garnett Dickinson aims for 100% CTP

Garnett Dickinson is hoping to become the first web printer in the country to go totally CTP with an Agfa Galileo system