England

Pre-media business Rhapsody has appointed digital marketing and media consultant John Rahim into a newly created role of head of digital.

Web-to-print developer Vpress has taken on two new staff members and may recruit four more to meet a 40% growth in business.

Blue Mushroom has spent more than 200,000 on its production facilities to boost competitiveness and drive growth.

Ricoh UK has announced the successful completion of stage one of its first UK trial of Clickable Paper, at Barnwell Print.

Commercial printer KPM has moved into publishing following the acquisition of five magazine titles from a collapsed publisher, a strategic move it said would boost turnover by a "significant amount".

Selsey Press celebrated its 50th anniversary recently by installing a DigiFold machine from Morgana Systems to round off a recent investment of around £750,000

Benson Group has launched its first student design competition, which will involve budding designers creating packaging for one of its clients.

Pureprint Group is to become the first user in Europe to upgrade its HP Indigo 10000 from four to six colours.

Liaison, the print-management division of Intermarketing Agency, has won the Independent Print Industries Association's print manager and distributor of the year award.

GMG is unveiling a host of new features in its latest version of ProductionSuite wide-format production workflow at Fespa.

UK manufacturer Blackman & White (B&W) has launched its latest cutting machine, which boasts laser, knife and routing capabilities, to the European market at Fespa.

Benson Group has won top marks from Leicester College for supporting education and training on its four-year apprentice scheme.