Intense lobbying over several months has seen the PVCA (formerly PIAA) win a review of the National Skills Needs List from the government, with the aim of getting print and packaging on the List, and so being able to receive government assistance for training.

The country's largest printable materials supplier Ball & Doggett is launching a campaign to reward customers for their Avery Dennison wide format purchases.

The Judges' Choice Award at the Real Media Collective Awards on Friday night was the Aldi Supermarkets 'Christmas: The More the Merrier 18' catalogue, printed by Ovato.

In another twist to a story that has already left many in the industry with their jaws on the floor, the Skope Group building in Castle Hill does not in reality have any signage – the image in the corporate marketing appears to have been photoshopped on.

Sign industry spewing as Clear Skies – t/a signmaking outfit Skope Group Manufacturing Services – is successfully steered into a DOCA, which has seen 70 per cent of its $2.3m debt disappear from its books, a debt which will now be pushed onto the taxpayer and the rest of the signage industry.

Digital inkjet print solutions developer Durst is setting up its own direct ANZ subsidiary, with current face of the company here Matt Ashman installed as its managing director.

The plant and equipment at liquidated WA print business Picton Press is up for auction, with Slattery's setting Tuesday 10 Sept as closure date for bids.

Outdoor giant oOh! Media is blaming the subdued economic activity around the May election for a 24 per cent slump in its profits in its first half results.

Australian online print and promotional products portal Redbubble has posted a profit for the first time since its IPO, as it aims to hit $1bn in sales.

Outdoor media company QMS Media achieved strong growth figures across the board for its first half year, with net profit after tax up by 65 per cent on revenue up 23 per cent.

Slaven points to positive signs as Ovato slips back into the red in the 2019 financial year, with soft conditions in retail, the exit of real estate from suburban newspapers, and a damaging price war in New Zealand causing sales to fall by 8.8 per cent.

Customer Experience consultant Scott Telfer asks if Artificial 
Intelligence (AI) is the next digital disruption for customers.

Diversified marketing communications services business and major printer IVE Group saw all its figures rise in 2019, as it met all its key operational milestones.

Digital outdoor media has overtaken print for the first time, with the half year to June showing print, or classic, or static slipping into the minority of the outdoor spend, and down by $11.5m in revenue.

The market gave Pro-Pac the thumbs up for its full year results, with shares rising 6.9 per cent in the first hour of trade, as its 2019 EBITDA rose by 72 per cent.

Fespa Australia (formerly SGIAA) and Starleaton will host another three-day colour bootcamp in Melbourne next week.