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Retail giant Tesco has a new head of marketing procurement for print, paper and post following the departure of Katleen Pelsmakers.

CFH has invested £1.4m in a raft of Xerox equipment to boost output and services at two of its print and mail sites.

Operating profits at Communisis have jumped 19% to 5.1m at the half-year, as new contract wins and overseas expansion helped fuel a successful period for the group.

The first national strike ballot of Royal Mail workers since 2009 could go ahead by September after 500 Communication Workers Union (CWU) representatives voted unanimously for the move.

St Ives is in consultation with the workforce at its St Ives Direct site in Bradford about outsourcing the enclosing side of the operation.

CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.

Alpha Media Solutions (AMS), one of the two companies that emerged from the collapse of Scorpio Print Finishing in 2006, has fallen into administration with the loss of all 61 jobs.

Quark has revealed details of QuarkXPress 10, which boasts more that 50 feature enhancements that combine to boost the design and publishing package's print and cross-media capabilities, according to...

Printed catalogues still have an important role to play in the multi-channel marketing age, according to a new report published this week, although more needs to be done to promote their use, it...

Modus Creative has bought local web design agency Blue Tesla Marketing as part of a strategy to immerse itself in cross-media and more than double its turnover to £3m over the next three years.

There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

Big-name speakers in print and marketing have confirmed they will talk at Cross Media 2013, which features more than 50 seminars in five theatres for the two-day event.