Marcomms

MailShot Manager, a direct mail customer database, printing and delivery service, was launched by Printed.com on Monday (22 October).

Steve Parish, chief executive of Tag Worldwide, will step down at the end of this calendar year to pursue "other interests outside of the business".

DS Repro, trading as The Print Centre, has invested 95,000 in finishing equipment to enhance its envelope inserting capabilities.

Royal Mail has announced a renewed freeze on reversion charges relating to envelope sealing issues just over a month after its initial six month moratorium ended on 17 September.

The Conservative Party has awarded the contract for all of its print and print management requirements in the build up to the 2015 general election to St Ives.

Quad/Graphics has announced a $258.5m (161m) bid for rival direct marketing business Vertis Holdings as the latter filed for Chapter 11 "to facilitate the intended sale".

Shares in St Ives have risen by more than 17% in the past week, after the group announced better than expected results on Tuesday (2 October).

DST Output UK has embarked on a multimillion-pound equipment upgrade across its Bristol, Dagenham and Nottingham sites.

Mail management company Synertec has installed two CMC 9000 inserting lines at its new Bristol site to align its capacity with demand.

Print broker Stuprint.com claims it is the first UK company to offer augmented reality (AR) across its entire printed product range.

Die cutter and folder-gluer manufacturer Kama has included its first "machine finder" tool on its revamped website it claims.