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Communisis has put a figure on its overseas growth in 2012 in a brief preview of its full year results.

Scottish print firm Montgomery Litho Group (MLG) has appointed provisional liquidators after a major customer loss forced the company into financial difficulty.

Two Memphis-area printers, Toof Commercial Printing and American Digital, have merged with the intention of taking advantage of the city's role as a packaging/cargo hub.

Gas and electricity supplier Npower has renewed its transactional mail contract with Opus Trust Marketing for another three years in a multi-million pound deal.

Leicestershire police are treating a fire that destroyed Arden Direct Marketing's 19th century factory in Barwell last week as "suspicious".

Mailing solutions provider Kern has signed a distribution agreement to supply Objectif Lune's mailing software in the UK.

Bosses at the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have reiterated the union's threat to get postal workers to boycott mail from downstream access (DSA) providers ahead of a ballot in the New Year.

Westdale Press has expanded its in-house services by investing in a new Sitma mailing line.

Howard Hunt will install eight Kodak Versamark DH9100 printheads next month to wrap up a 3.5m spend that does not include the Kodak Prosper 5000XL installed in early 2011.

The Finishing Company in Wiltham, Essex has been rebranded as Finco to reflect its move into online ordering and delivery and on demand digital printing.

Envelope printer First Class Post was fined 2,500 and ordered to pay 1,041 in costs by Leeds magistrates for allowing staff to be lifted nearly six metres in a box perched on a forklift truck.

Print procurement consultancy Blue Buffalo has been awarded the contract to tender the print of UK healthcare giant Bupa, a long-standing client of print management company RR Donnelley GDS.