Legal

One of the UK's largest independent asset finance providers has been accused of offering incentives for introductions to struggling firms so that it could profit from their collapse.

Abaris Holdings has been fined 10,000 by Lancaster Magistrate's Court and forced to pay costs of 3,940 after an employee injured his arm at its Lancaster factory.

UPM is taking legal action against fellow paper manufacturer Metsaliitto Cooporative and its subsidiary Metsa Board, in relation to the jointly-owned Metsa Fibre.

The publisher's interim results reveal a 12% drop in advertising revenue to 94m in the 17 weeks to 28 October 2012 but it said that its end of year operating profits would be in line with the 104.5m...

Unsecured creditors of the five operating companies of Alderson Print Group (APG) were owed a combined 5.1m at the time of their administration, according to the creditors report.

A Bank of England scheme to boost bank lending to businesses and households could provide up to 66bn in funding based on current uptake.

American Industrial Partners (AIP), the private equity owner of narrow and mid-web flexo press maker Mark Andy, has completed its $26m (16.2m) purchase of direct imaging press builder Presstek.

The last major mid-market funder to the print industry, ING Lease, has announced its decision to pull out of UK asset finance from 30 November.

Six Spanish envelope exporters have been fined a total of 3.7m for collaborating to fix prices.

Trinity Mirror's share price dropped by 10% overnight as hacking claims were lodged at the High Court on Monday (22 October).

Government plans to allow workers to trade employment rights for tax-free shares under new "employee-owner" contracts from April 2013 have split opinion in the print industry.

Eastman Kodak has asked for more time to file its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation plan as it announced the decision to wind down consumer inkjet printer sales from 2013.