Print buying

Tall Group secure cheque printing operation Checkprint has reconfigured part of its Leicestershire facility and installed a raft of new equipment.

Polestar has renewed its contract to print a range of journals for the British Medical Association.

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.

Renowned designer David Bartlett has launched a new range of cardboard furniture blanks that can be overprinted with custom designs.

Print management firm HH Global has won a three-year contract to provide electronics giant Siemens with global end-to-end print services.

CPI Group could soon be under new ownership if a proposed takeover deal comes to fruition.

A new ISO standard has mapped out a common method for calculating the carbon footprint of printed products.

Web-to-print firm Moo.com has added three new additions to its luxury business stationery line, Luxe.

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.

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.

Motique Plastics has brought a new Japanese method of producing domed badges and emblems to the UK market.