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

St Ives' shares hit a 52-week high of 107.93 on Monday as it published its interim management statement for the first 14 weeks of its 2012/13 financial year.

Advertising data research service WARC has scaled down earlier predictions for global ad spend growth in 2012 and 2013 to 4.3% and 4% respectively.

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.

Print manager Charterhouse PM is being bought by Japanese document giant Konica Minolta.

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.

President Barack Obama's victory over Republican rival Mitt Romney last night marked the end of one of the most combative - and expensive - political races in US history.

HH Global, the Surrey-based print management group, has secured a three-year contract extension from Iceland worth more than 10m.

CFH, the Somerset-based print and mail company, has acquired Slough-based Print For Business (PFB) for an undisclosed amount.

Speculation is rife about who will head up Tag Worldwide following the imminent departure of chief executive Steve Parish and commercial director Richard Jameson.

AlphaGraphics North East (AGNE) has added a cross media marketing "movie star" experience to its website, in time for Halloween.

Follicly-challenged printers keen to raise money for charity during "Movember" can still take part thanks to JAK Print and Design's free moustache kits.