Konica Minolta is among a hundred companies in different fields listed as leaders in gender equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) today, passing a number of strict criteria to attain the Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation. 106 citations were awarded in 2016.

The ACCC will not oppose News Corp's takeover of Australian Regional Media (ARM) from APN, removing a major hurdle in the way of the $36.6m deal. The consumer watchdog said it did not believe the buyout would significantly reduce competition in Queensland's newspaper industry.

The ACCC will not hold a public review into IVE Group's $116 million buyouts of Franklin Web and AIW, which may indicate a clear path for PMP's proposed merger with IPMG. If both deals go ahead, the large format web offset (LFWO) sector in Australia would consolidate from five major players to two.

Roland DG will tour regional Australia with its new 'Mobile Imagination Centre' (MIC) over the next two years, bringing its technology and applications to locations beyond the big smoke. The tour will kick off in Albury, NSW, on February 13, before heading to Dubbo and Bathurst.

Prestige goods house Louis Vuitton has become the first business in the world to deploy a 3D-printed major point-of-sale display in a shopping centre. The pictured unit is located in Sydney city’s Westfield complex and was produced on a Massivit 1800 3D large format printer over two weeks.

Canon Australia, together with its European technology partner EngView, today announced MacOS support for the Packaging & Display Designer Suite. The software, which allows professionals to create innovative packaging and POP/POS displays, was showcased at Visual Impact.

Konica Minolta's National Specialised Print Awards entries close in ten days. The top prize, a $10,000 promotion and business development package, is open to Konica Minolta clients across Australia. Meanwhile, entries are open for the 2017 New Zealand Pride in Print Awards.

When ISO 16759 for calculating the carbon footprint of print media products was under development, we mostly had in mind paper based prints. It is interesting to see this standard being deployed for other types of print media, which is what a Taiwanese supplier of textiles has done.

Huge play in large format web offset (LFWO) will consolidate the sector into two players – IVE Group and PMP - once the mergers on the table complete. Phil Taylor, CEO Franklin Web (pictured), will run the Victorian part of the giant business.

Canon Australia and Konica Minolta will support PacPrint 2017 as Gold Sponsors, joining Currie Group, Graphic Art Mart, HP and Pozitive at that premium level of sponsorship. Roland is the event’s Platinum Sponsor, while Silver Sponsors include EFI, Mimaki and Spicers.

The final board meeting of Printing Industries held yesterday in Sydney brought the old and the new together. Ron Patterson and Peter Clark, the recently elected board members from Victoria and Tasmania, joined their future colleagues to review the year.

Dr David Cooke, Managing Director Konica Minolta, has joined business and religious leaders calling on the Turnbull government to pass laws against slavery-like conditions in Australia's trading partners, pointing to similar legislation on the books in Britain as a model for fighting modern slavery.

Increased consolidation and the growth of the wide format and digital sectors were hallmarks of the industry in 2016, says expert Richard Rasmussen of Ascent Partners (pictured) in his annual review.

Bauer Media will cease printing iconic teen magazine Dolly, shifting it to a digital-only format following its December 5 edition. The move comes seven months after Bauer relaunched Dolly as a mobile-first publication with a bi-monthly print edition. Ex-publisher Marina Go says the website is to blame.

NSW Police have warned that theft of mail from residential letterboxes fuels identity theft by international crime gangs, but industry professionals say printed mail is still safer than online. According to the ACCC, only 1.9 percent of identity theft scams reported in 2015 were due to direct mail.

Staff at IPG Connect in Brendale, near Moreton Bay, Queensland, say that a Daeho 116 guillotine installed by Currie Group last year has boosted their productivity - and reduced their back pains. The guillotine has increased the speed of IPG's operations by 60 percent over its old machine.