Print buying

Favini has added Satin coated papers to the Metallics line of its Majestics fine paper range, which is aimed at design and print companies.

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.

Gemini Group's operating profit rose more than 150% in the year to 30 June 2012 following the management reorganisation and restructuring of the previous year.

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.

InnerWorkings CEO Eric Belcher has predicted growth for the company's managed print services in the year ahead as more large corporations look for a single vendor to handle their global brand and...

Goodhead Group creditors have expressed alarm about the potential pre-pack sale of the group, with the situation still unresolved at the time of writing.

Paper manufacturer James Cropper has recorded a double digit increase in its operating profit for the first half of 2012 despite falling sales in its speciality paper business.

Paperlinx UK is to centralise its "face to market" across its commercial print operations in a move that could prove to be its first step in consolidating Howard Smith, PaperCo and Robert Horne into...

UK-based trade and commercial printer RCS has secured a B2 sheetfed inkjet world first as part of its strategy to be at the "bleeding edge" of new technology.

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

London's Spineless Classics has sealed a deal with John Lewis to sell its Book On One Page posters in stores in time for Christmas.

Pensord has signed off the single largest kit investment in its 43-year history with a UK first that will boost its effiency by as much as 75%.