Print buying

DC Thomson is set to roll out Wave2 Media's AdPortal3 print advertising workflow tool across its newspapers business six years after first installing the platform at one of its subsidiaries.

National newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has revealed the merger of its national and regional operations as well as a major management reshuffle and the scrapping of its daily deals site Happli.

HH Global has appointed Jeffery Tolman, a previous deputy chairman and chief executive, strategy, at Saatchi & Saatchi, as a non-executive director.

Ex-Manroland subsidiary ppi Media has appointed Ian Roberts as its UK and Ireland sales agent.

Software developer Quark has unveiled an upgrade to its publishing application App Studio to enable mobile device publication based on HTML5 formatting.

Schawk has launched what it claims is the industry's first cloud-based platform for objectively measuring print quality, particularly in relation to the accurate and consistent reproduction of colour.

Commercial printer Blunt produces banners to adorn a milk float for Ben & Jerry's campaign for the better treatment of cows.

Banner Managed Communication has signed a three-year deal to provide marketing print and warehousing services for pension provider Friends Life.

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).

St Ives' book printing subsidiary Clays increased its output by around half a million books in 2011/12, but while the number of orders was "up significantly", average print runs were "down...