Printers

John Watson & Co has been bought by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Multi-Color Corporation (MCC) less than a year after the collapse of its proposed sale to Canadian labels group CCL Industries.

Colorscan Imaging Products has installed an EFI Jetrion 4900M digital label press as part of a 3m expansion.

Spin Print Solutions has installed a five-colour Hans Gronhi B3 press and ordered an additional two-colour model as part of a 600,000 litho, digital and finishing kit spend.

Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

Pureprint has officially received its latest Queen's Award in a handover ceremony carried out by the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex.

Polestar is set to confirm the chosen location for the first tranche of its new web presses next month.

Lancashire-based B&D Print Services has announced a doubling of finishing capacity since installing a new Horizon SPF-FC200A bookletmaker two months ago.

Bell & Bain's Fujifilm Jet Press 540W - the first in the world - has arrived on-site.

Norfolk-based Swallowtail Print has been fined after a member of staff almost severed his index finger in an unguarded machine.

Communisis has increased the size of its design division by around 15% with the 7m acquisition of Editions Publishing.

The shortfall to creditors resulting from the collapse of MPG Printgroup is likely to exceed 10m, according to the administrator's report.

The major overhaul at Johnston Press has resulted in the group's first increase in like-for-like operating profits in seven years.