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Former Pureprint business development manager Kelly Harris has joined Healeys as sales and marketing director.

Intelligent Finishing Systems' managing director Tony Hards has been clothed as a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.

The North East-based commercial printer initially forecast a 1.8m sales boost after securing funds from Yorkshire Bank, but PBL now expects an uplift in excess of 3m.

Prosthetic limb maker RSL Steeper briefed Smurfit Kappa to create a pack that reflected the feel, image and strength of its BeBionic products yet was accessible to those with limited dexterity.

Mastercolour has installed the UK's first six-colour KBA Rapida 75E after it ordered the press at Drupa as a replacement for two five-colour KBA Rapida presses.

Intoprint UK is the latest North East printer to attract funding from a turnaround fund that invests in SMEs to boost their profit and capacity.

At the paper company's AGM on 1 August chairman Mark Cropper voiced concern that the market conditions causing the decline were showing no sign of abating.

The Wyndeham Group subsidiary has signed a deal with Egmont Publishing Group after it won the contract to produce new Disney Pixar magazine, <i>Brave</i>.

The multi-billion dollar costs of the investigation into the closure of the <i>News of the World</i> (NOTW) last July have restricted financial growth at News Corporation.

New non-executive director Andrew Price said he had 'enthusiastically accepted' the invitation to the Paperlinx board following completion of the company's strategic review.