Printing World articles from January 2003

Printing World archives from January 2003

Polestar posts profit again.(increase in company operating profits)
January 6, 2003... Polestar was quietly pleased with itself last week, announcing that operating profits for the year to September 30 were up 19% to #37.5m despite a #51m fall in sales. There is investment in a #3.5m gravure press, three commercial webs and...

JC Graphics: Crooke could face legal action.(Ray Crooke, formerly boss of JC Graphic Supplies, may face legal action after joining Litho Supplies)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... JC Graphic Supplies' former boss Ray Crooke may face legal action by its receivers, after defecting to Litho Supplies just before its assets were taken over by its cutthroat competitor Keane Graphic Products. JC Graphic Supplies was...

MBE for Polestar man.(John Longbottom)
January 6, 2003... John Longbottom, an account manager at Polestar, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours for services to the Territorial Army. With ten years' experience in the TA, he also helped organise the last Lord Mayor's Show, and took part in...

Brand new Brand.(Pira journal )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Pira has launched its bimonthly journal Brand, containing analysis of brand protection and brand packaging technologies. An annual subscription costs #575, but Pira is offering an introductory price of #399. For more details call 01372 802080....

IIP for Copyprint.(Copyprint UK wins Investors in People accreditation)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Copyprint UK has been awarded the Investors in People accreditation. IIP assessor Gill Atmeare said: `Copyprint has used uncomplicated, practical ways of demonstrating its commitment to the development of its staff. The business is family run...

CDP helps kids in need.(CDP Print Management)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... CDP Print Management, Liverpool, has raised a total of #2,850 for local charity, Kids in Need and Distress. The majority was raised at a charity event organised by CDP's staff and held in memory of the company's founder Joe Scanlon. ...

Potts to scrap AIM listing.(Thomas Potts, alternative investment market)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Thomas Potts says it plans to delist from the alternative investment market after announcing a pre-tax loss of #988,000 in the six months to September 30. The company will remain a plc and have shareholders, but it says it is "gaining very...

Montrose up for sale after crash.(Montrose Press)
January 6, 2003... Montrose Press has been put up for sale, just weeks after the Chelmsford company closed down Hyway Printing Services which it bought last summer (Printing World, December 9). The Montrose management had given a guarantee for a substantial...

AGI calls it a day in Swindon.(AGI Media Packaging site)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... AGI Media is closing its Swindon site which specialised in CD packaging. The plant is scheduled to close by April and follows the decision of one of the major CD pressing operations to move its work from Swindon to Holland. That decision had...

Starting young.(computer donation to primary school)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Washington Envelopes, Tyne and Wear is providing a unique opportunity for primary age children at a local school to learn design skills. The manufacturer has donated an Apple Mac G3 complete with software to Usworth School as part of a...

Adhesive alliance.(Escribo Technologies Ltd. alliance with Pinnacle Label)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Adhesive products supplier Escribo Technologies has formed an alliance with US company Pinnacle Label to manufacture and market Pinnacle's range of self adhesive labels throughout Europe. The range is approved for use on Oce, Xerox, Canon, Dell...

Choc chips pack win.(Alan Packaging's flexibles operation wins award)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Alcan Packaging's Salterbeck flexibles operation has scooped a Worldstar award for its Supercook Real White Chocolate Chips pack. The winning design is process flexo printed in seven colours onto a metalised polyester laminate, and was...

Vote of confidence.(Smith and Ouzman launches postal ballot paper system)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Smith and Ouzman has launched its Post&Vote postal ballot paper system to provide 100% fulfilment accuracy and decrease mailing costs for councils. Currently patent pending, Post&Vote, based on an A3 printed sheet, incorporates three detachable...

Foxes funding.(Taylor Bloxham producing membership copies for Foxes Trust)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Taylor Bloxham is supporting Leicester City Football Club by working with other local companies to produce 30,000 copies of a new membership form for the Foxes Trust. The company offered its services free, alongside Big Communications and...

Emap chief exec chides shareholders.(chief executive Robin Miller accuses Emap shareholders of their investment management)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Emap chief executive Robin Miller has chided shareholders for "only showing a superficial interest in their investments" and then "thrashing around for someone to blame" when their investment does not succeed. In a personal submission to...

Howitt gets go ahead for factory.(to build new CHP printing plant)
January 6, 2003... Howitt is in position to sign orders for printing, finishing and prepress equipment following the decision by Ashfield District Council to grant conditional planning permission for the company to build its Equator gravure plant. The site...

Fraud trial continues.(between Hungarian International Bank and printers Stephen Riddle and James Lovat)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... In the continuing fraud trial involving the Hungarian International Bank and printers James Lovat and Stephen Riddle, the defence has suggested that inflated invoices were on the high side to cover the costs of reprinting and redesigning the...

Merlin on the move.(Merlin Colour Printers moves to Essex, England location)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... After trading on Canvey Island for over 40 years, Merlin Colour Printers has used the Christmas break to move to premises in Halstead, north Essex. Managing director Dave Marrable says: "The move has gone without a hitch. We planned it...

FT: no comment on WSJ rumour.('Financial Times' does not comment on merger talks with 'Wall Street Journal')(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The Financial Times has declined to comment on reports that it is in talks about merging distribution or printing contracts with the Wall Street Journal in Europe. National newspapers reported after Christmas that the FT was in talks with...

Statex reward.(Statexcolourprint managing director James Dark meets with UK Chancellor Gordon Brown after company earns award)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... James Dark, managing director of Newcastle printer Statexcolourprint, visited 11 Downing Street to meet Chancellor Gordon Brown after the company received recognition in the Inner City 100 awards. The company has raised turnover 309% to almost...

Kall Kwik five-colour.(to install five-colour printing press in print hub)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Kall Kwik is to install a five-colour press in its Crawley print hub, which serves four stores with print that cannot be produced on the spot. Peter Makin, managing director of the Brighton and Crawley stores says that the five-colour SM52 will...

Bonus for Indigo.(HP Indigo Ltd. staff receives salary bonus)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Staff at HP Indigo, the digital press company now a division of Hewlett Packard, have received a month's salary as a bonus in recognition of hitting performance targets for the year. HP is aiming to reach sales of $1bn over three years. In 2001...

Bank of England to privatise printworks.(Bank of England to sell printworks to De La Rue)
January 6, 2003... The Bank of England is planning to sell its printworks at Debden, Essex, to De La Rue. A seven-year contract with De La Rue could start in the spring, after consultation with unions and clearance from competition authorities, the Bank...

Communisis looks on the bright side.(Communisis print contract with Barclays Bank PLC)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... While the printing market remains tough Communisis is seeing growth in print management, the company said in a trading update before Christmas. Having been named as one of the three `strategic partners' that Barclays Bank will now use to...

Largest ctp device to Finns.(BasysPrint invests in ctp device from WS Bookwell)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... BasysPrint has secured an order for the world's largest ctp device from the Finnish book printer, WS Bookwell. The unit is to be delivered later this year and when installed will be able to produce both projection speed and conventional plates...

Gardner Gibson closes.(Tenon Recovery receiver Kenneth Craig called on to find buyer for Gardner Gibson)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Gardner Gibson, Renfrew, has succumbed to the trading difficulties currently hitting the printing industry. A few days before Christmas the Bank of Scotland called in receiver Kenneth Craig of Tenon Recovery, having refused to continue to...

New year, new thinking.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 6, 2003... It's the time of year for new resolutions and new beginnings, though few printers will be joyous about prospects for 2003. Those we have spoken to predict more of the same for the coming 12 months rather than anticipating a year filled with...

Letter: Call to stop phoenix menace.(Letter to the Editor)
January 6, 2003... As trading conditions become tougher for the UK print industry and increasing numbers of companies go to the wall, there can be little doubt we will continue to be bedevilled by having to compete with phoenix printers rising from the ashes of...

Letter: Alive and kicking.(Letter to the Editor)
January 6, 2003... I was bemused to read in your issue of December 9 that I had "quit print"! To paraphrase Mark Twain, stories of my quitting print are greatly exaggerated! Actually, I was very sorry indeed to be asked to leave Centurion Press after...

Ready for action.(Ronald E. Daly, Oce USA Ltd.'s CEO, talks about managing company)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Oce USA's new chief executive officer Ronald E Daly has described his new company as `like David out to slay a bunch of Goliaths' in the digital press market. `I have my slingshots ready. This is going to be fun,' added Mr Daly in an interview...

So solid crew.(Novar PLC not to sell its subsidiary Clarke American)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Novar, the conglomerate that owns security printer Clarke American, says that the unit `has continued to deliver a solid performance' this year, although they will be hit by the weak US dollar in the second half. Novar had been trying to sell...

Adobe recovery.(Adobe Systems Inc. fourth quarter sales)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Adobe Systems enjoyed a recovery in sales in the fourth quarter of 2002, which at $294.7m was 11% above the same period in 2001. Net income increased from $34.7m a year ago to $40.1m. CEO Bruce Chizen says that Adobe is `pleased with our return...

Wholesalers told to relax grip.(UK Office of Fair Trading reviewing rules of newspaper distributors and retailers)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Newspaper distribution should be liberalised, says the Office of Fair Trading, which has finally concluded its review of the domination of wholesalers WH Smith, John Menzies and Dawson Holdings. The current rules date from 1993 and require...

Polestar reviews pension schemes.(Polestar's changes to final salary pension scheme)
January 6, 2003... Polestar, one of the last large printing companies still offering a final salary pension scheme to new staff, is likely to announce the scheme's abolition within the next few weeks. Polestar's finance director Peter Johnston says that the...

SMG wasn't right for us, says Johnston Press chief executive.(Tim Bowdler, CEO of Johnston Press, says purchase of Scottish Media Groups's newspapers wouldn't be right)
January 6, 2003... Johnston Press chief executive Tim Bowdler has explained why he decided against bidding for Scottish Media Group's newspapers, including the Herald and Sunday Herald, whose purchase by Gannett looks certain. The #216m deal will now be...

Compulsory winding up.(legal cases in the UK printing industry, scheduled presentation times)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 6, 2003... The following cases are due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL * Birchwood Publishing Ltd 20 Upper Dicconson Street, Wigan, Lancashire WN1 2AD on January 15 at 10.30am. Petition by Secretary of State for...

Appointment of liquidators.(for the printing industry in the UK)
January 6, 2003... * Studio 5NV Ltd Graphic design. Liquidator: AH Wilkinson, Wilkinson & Co, 68 Thorpe Lane, Almondbury, Huddersfield HDS 8UF * PISEAF Ltd Previous company name The Non-League Paper Ltd Newspaper publication. Liquidators: GW Roberts, Hurst...

Appointment of receivers.(C. Laughton and N.H. O'Reilly of Numerica appointed as receivers for Valeyard Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Valeyard Ltd (t/a Hyway Printing) Printing. Receivers: NH O'Reilly and C Laughton, Numerica, PO Box 2653, 66 Wigmore Street, London W1A 3RT Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Meetings of creditors.(in the printing industry in the UK)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 6, 2003... * Wallis Repro Ltd at The Holiday Inn Hotel, Gibson Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 2RF on January 9 at 10.45am * Motionposters Company Ltd at Hazlewoods, Windsor House, Barnett Way, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RT on December 12 * Invicta...

Vision on.(merger of Scitex Vision and Aprion)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The proposed merger of Scitex Vision and Aprion has gone ahead according to plan with the group retaining the Scitex Vision brand and the Aprion name retained for the piezo inkjet technology it developed. Scitex is pumping $15m in order to...

Caldera arrives.(Caldera Graphics introduces image management application)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... French developer Caldera Graphics has introduced a server based image management application with remote access provided via web browsers. The Caldera Collection application supports ICC profiling, raster and vector file formats and has a...

Cylinder swap.(European Rotogravure Association makes cylinder exchange system for use in packaging companies)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The European Rotogravure Association has instigated a cylinder exchange system for packaging companies. The operation uses a web site (www.heimann-hamm.de) to handle the sale and purchase of gravure cylinders that are either surplus to...

Eagle soars.(Eagle 44 inkjet machine goes from Inca Digital to Siebdruck Esslinger)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... An Eagle 44 has flown from Inca Digital in Cambridge to Siebdruck Esslinger in Grosskuchen in Germany where the large format flatbed inkjet machine will provide extra flexibility to the specialist vinyl printer. Copyright: CMP Information...

Heidelberg gives digital support.(Heidelberg UK provides printing supplies for UK colleges and universities)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Heidelberg continues to support the UK's print training establishments with a further round of #1.5m equipment placements. This has included Quickmaster DI presses and platesetters. Three colleges have DI machines to date, South Notts...

DuPont unveils inkjet proofer.(E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. launches proofing device)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... DuPont has launched its new Cromalin B2 proofing device in what it describes as its "second generation" drop-on-demand piezo inkjet technology for B2 sized market. The new proofer is designed as a mid-market machine to fit just below its...

Dalim picks Impostrip.(Dalim picks Ultimate Technologies as supplier for Impostrip product family)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Dalim has switched to Ultimate Technologies as supplier of its preferred imposition applications for the Twist and Swing workflow applications. It will integrate the Impostrip product family into the Dalim products, allowing Mac operators...

New inkjet promises colour.(inkjet printer from joint venture between The Technology Partnership and Research Labs)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The inkjet sector is warming up with demonstrations of new technologies at either end of the quality scale. A new electrostatic drop-on-demand technology is a joint venture between The Technology Partnership, a UK company based near...

M-real deal.(M-Real Corp.'s supply deal with European Office Supplies Alliance)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... M-Real's Map Merchant Group division has struck a g35m deal to supply the newly formed European Office Supplies Alliance. The Alliance comprises three partners: the UK's o2o, the Norwegian Tybring-Gjedde and Dutch company Ahrend Office...

Scottish donation.(Tullis Russell papermakers donates paper for Children 1st, Pillans and Wilson Greenaway prints copies for free)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Tullis Russell Papermakers has donated the paper for the annual report of Scottish children's charity Children 1st. In addition, Edinburgh's Pillans & Wilson Greenaway printed the 5,000 copies free of charge. Copyright: CMP Information...

New grade for Olmec.(ICI Imagedata adds heavyweight grade to its current range of inkjet paper products)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... ICI Imagedata, the inkjet paper manufacturer, has added a heavyweight grade to its Olmec range. The new 260gsm grade is available with gloss and satin finishes and is designed to print photo realistic images with significantly lower ink usage....

UPM backs eastern promise.(UPM-Kymmene Corp. to invest in paper machine)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... As an indication of the growth anticipated in the Chinese print market, UPM-Kymmene is spending E470m on a new fine paper machine for its mill in Changshu, near Shanghai. It will have an annual capacity of 450,000 tonnes of high quality...

Intelicoat paves way with value.(Intelicoat Technologies preparing product range for digital display media industry)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Intelicoat Technologies, the former Rexam Image Products business, is predicting a huge growth in digital display media demand this year and has spent the six months since its buyout preparing a product range in anticipation. It expects a...

Stora spends on pack centre.(Stora Enso Oyj to invest in research and development building for packaging products)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Stora Enso is spending E4m on an R&D centre to support its ambition of becoming world leader in new packaging products. The site in Finland, called InnoCentre, will start up this summer and will be used to develop new concepts in packaging....

Price to fall says analyst.(paper prices forecasted to decline by first quarter of 2003)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Paper prices are set to fall by 5% in the first quarter of the year, according to the latest report from Morgan Stanley Equity Research. It forecasts slow demand growth of 2.5% and operating rates of 85%. In the face of such low...

Power of print.(MAN Roland report on worldwide newspaper activities, including facilities and services)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... MAN Roland has commissioned a 24-page report on how newspapers around the world are developing services and facilties to underline the power of print. Author Andreas Weber toured the world in 12 days and includes MAN's seven golden rules to...

Automation for Axel.(Axel Springer installs reel handling system from Rocla)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Axel Springer has signed off an automated reel handling system for its newspaper plant near Hamburg where it uses Roland presses to print 5 million papers a day. Rocla supplied the AGV system with eight radio controlled and laser guided robots...

On target.(Ferag supplies drum inserter to Landshuter Zeitung)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Ferag has supplied an MSD-C drum inserter to allow the Landshuter Zeitung to add precision to insert targetting. The paper can now target inserts to individual streets from a circulation of 70,000. The paper is helped by the fact that 90% of...

Classified information.(New Zealand Herald to advertise on classified part of Atex, computer system)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The New Zealand Herald, an Auckland daily paper, is preparing to go live on the classified part of Atex, its Media Command system next month. This follows the successful switch to the new software for display ads. Copyright: CMP...

KMG production chief loses cancer fight.(David Dalton, 'Kent Messenger' production director, passes away)
January 6, 2003... David Dalton, production director of the Kent Messenger, has died aged 61 after a long battle with cancer, just days from retiring at the end of last year. Mr Dalton spent most of his working life in newspapers, starting with Thomson...

Mirror bites into production time.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Surrey & Berks newspapers has improved the print quality of property and car advertising following a decision to automate image handling through Agfa's IntelliTune application. The newspaper had added a Goss Colorliner and more recently a...

S&B fine tunes picture quality with IntelliTune.(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... The Mirror group has switched to PDF for output of its six national newspapers following a project with Global Graphics lasting six months. The software developer has supplied the Jaws PDF server at the Mirror Group offices in Canary Wharf....

EfI realises it need to move closer to the market.(Electronics for Imaging )
January 6, 2003... Electronics for Imaging is changing tack as signalled by its $9m acquisition of Best By Gareth Ward Electronics for Imaging closed 2002 with the acquisition of Best, something that will help set the tone for the next year and beyond as the...

On a business footing.
January 6, 2003... Printcafe is seeing printers adopt business management technology to improve how their operations perform By Gareth Ward The size or maker of your sheetfed press does not determine the success of your business. It might have done so at one...

Fancy finishing.(Direct mail)
January 6, 2003... It is time direct mail providers came to realise that a finisher is no longer the fall guy at the end of a food chain By Rod Hayes Remember when it was fashionable to think of "working with computers" being regarded by the ignorant as a job...

Direct and to the point.(Direct mail)
January 6, 2003... Direct mail remains a specialist area but this does not preclude printers moving into this sector By Marion Wilson The term direct mail covers a whole raft of services ranging from simple mailing with perhaps a degree of...

Encore brings specialist technology to UK.(Cuvertomat supplier, Encore Machinery)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... Having started life as an offshoot of one of Germany's biggest mailing houses, Cuvertomat in Stuttgart manufactures specialist gluing, folding and inserting lines for direct mail finishing. Tailored to meet specific needs of each customer,...

NPA - Appointment.(Newspaper Publishers Association appoints Terry Grote as chairman)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Terry Grote, managing director of Independent News & Media, has been elected as the new chairman of the Newspaper Publishers' Association. His term of office is one year. He became managing director of IN&M (UK) in 1999 having joined as...

De La Rue - appointment.(Peter Cosgrove joins as Global Services division managing director)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Peter Cosgrove is joining De La Rue as managing director of its Global Sevrices division as a replacement for Jon Marx who resigned in November. Mr Cosgrove, who is leaving Smurfit Packaging where he has been president, takes up the new...

4imprint Group - appointment.(Peter Evans hired as non-executive director)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * The 4imprint Group has named Peter Evans as non-executive director. The Derby company, based on parts of the old Bemrose business, is a specialist in promotional items. Mr Evans was previously a senior partner with accountant KPMG in...

Quad Tech - appointment.(David Barton appointed director of sales)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Quad Tech, the engineering side of the giant US print group, and newly enlarged through the acquisition of Printech in the UK, has named David Barton as director of sales. He fills a gap left when Karl Fritchen was promoted to company...

Antalis - appointments.(company hires James Jarvis as marketing director)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Antalis has appointed James Jarvis as marketing director. Mr Jarvis has been sales director of the Antalis consumer operation. He has spent 19 years with the company, previously Wiggins Teape. Reporting to him will be Ernie Dellow, who joins...

Technotrans - appointment.(Technotrans AG hires Daniel McFazdean as service engineer)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Daniel McFazdean has joined Technotrans as a service engineer covering the country south of Northampton. He has four years' experience with TW Services, a refrigeration specialist. Copyright: CMP Information Ltd.

Turning Point Technologies - appointment.(names Gareth Sharkey systems engineer)(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Turning Point Technologies has named Gareth Sharkey as a systems engineer looking after Luscher platesetters and workflow installations in the north from a base in Leeds. He has a background in IT system support and field engineering before...

PPS - appointment.(PPS Ltd. hires Matthew Rawnsley )(Brief Article)
January 6, 2003... * Matthew Rawnsley is the latest recruit at expanding packaging specialist PPS. He has 20 years' experience in customer facing roles in print and packaging and joins the Leeds company at a time of rapid growth. It expanded 30% last year...

Thecv: Jonathan Harry.(Sales and marketing director, RPM Print and Design)(Interview)
January 6, 2003... Sales and marketing director, RPM Print and Design How long have you been in this role? Six years. What is your background in print? As a boy I helped out in the family printing business, but on leaving Cambridge University...

Montrose put on the MAP empire.(MAP Group acquires Montrose Press)
January 13, 2003... MAP Group, the Bishops Stortford company that embarked on the acquisition trail last year, has had a busy start to 2003, taking over KSC Printers in Tunbridge Wells and buying Montrose Press from the administrators (Printing World, last week)....

Strike ballot at Jarrold.(Jarrold Printing)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... GPMU members at Jarrold Printing in Norwich are voting on industrial action after the company proposed a 15% pay cut and a change from four shifts a day to three, on top of 59 redundancies, in order to improve profitability. The current...

No phoenix for MCI.(MCI Tradeprint put into administrative receivership)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... MCI Tradeprint in Tonbridge, Kent, has been put into administrative receivership and ceased trading, with the loss of around 12 jobs. Managing director Julian Marsh says: "The printing industry is having a tough time at the moment and is...

No7 heaven for PPS.(to produce packaging for Boots products)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Packaging specialist PPS has produced new packaging for the Boots No7 range of Daily V vitamins, using PET GAG material. Printed silk screen and offset litho printing, it also has foil blocking and uses high frequency creasing technology to...

New Emap ceo.(Tom Moloney appointmnent)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Emap has announced that current chief operating officer Tom Moloney is to take over as group chief executive on January 23. He has been with the company since 1981 and succeeds Robin Miller in his new position. Copyright: CMP Information...

Murton dies at 50.(Andre Murton)(Obituary)
January 13, 2003... Andrew Murton, account manager for Litho Supplies' East Anglian region has died from cancer aged 50. A former press minder at Jarrold Printing, Mr Murton has been with Litho Supplies since 1989 and was widely respected by his customers and...

MAN Roland makes Charles king of the UK.(Nick Charles appointment)
January 13, 2003... Nick Charles, a sales and marketing expert with a background in the IT and computer industries is the new chief executive of MAN Roland GB. The post has been vacant since the departure of Keith Gatfield last year, which followed a...

RWE profits hit by Heidelberg.(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Heidelberg's worldwide sales fell by 19% last year, figures from parent company RWE reveal. Although sales in core activities rose by 27%, RWE's full-year figures show that after exceptionals, profits fell 22% in 2002. This was mainly due...

EfI picks manager.(Electonics for Imaging, Lisette Sens appointment)(Brief Article)
January 13, 2003... Electonics for Imaging has named Lisette Sens as regional sales manager for the UK, Ireland and South Africa. This is the first time the firm has made such an appointment and follows a strategy which sees EfI developing products for...