Three executives from Konica Minolta have thrown themselves out of a plane at 14,000 feet above Wollongong to support not-for-profit group Project Futures in its fight to end human trafficking, slavery, and child exploitation. The ‘Toss the Boss’ initiative raised more than $21,000.

Printing Industries is rolling out a new series of business transition webinars following the success of last year's nationwide roadshow of transition seminars. "The webinars will continue to help businesses negotiate necessary changes to ensure a successful future."

Media Super is running a nationwide program of free seminars to help members boost their super and plan for a financially secure retirement. Twenty-one seminars will be held next month in NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, ACT, TAS and the NT.

How bored are we all with colour management? Marginally bored? Slightly bored? Very bored? Bordering suicidally bored? We are all somewhere on the spectrum, as it were. But boring as it may be, colour management is about money management, writes Laurel Brunner.

An exposition of words that have changed history illuminating the heights and depths of the human spirit is presented as collaboration between Tim Jetis and Theo Pettaras.

Well-known Sydney printing icon, Sydney Allen, is listed on the ASIC website as being in receivership. There is no official confirmation from the company at Rydalmere where as of midday Friday the directors remain closeted in meetings.

Rebranding of long-established Sydney printer puts core activity front and centre with the name, Rawson Print Co.

The board of the PIAA has interviewed a short list of six candidates in the search for a new CEO to replace Jason Allen, who announced his shock resignation just before Christmas. "There are some very high calibre candidates with an extremely diverse range of experience in print and communications."

Former Opus Group CEO Cliff Brigstocke, who resigned from the company this week, has been appointed the new CEO at Blue Star, a division of IVE Group. "I believe in many ways that the time is right," said Brigstocke, who will start his new role on 1 July.

Former Pacific Magazines COO Nick Chan has been appointed chief executive officer of magazine publisher Bauer Media for Australia and New Zealand, five months after David Goodchild stepped down from the job. "I’m excited by the opportunity to work with these special brands," said Chan.

The Chaser co-founders Julian Morrow and Charles Firth will host this year’s Media Super National Print Awards in Melbourne. "We just love their particular brand of intelligent and irreverent humour and are very much looking forward to the entirely new slant they will inevitably bring."

Future Print has launched a new subsidised training program for supervisors and team leaders that will begin next month at Printing Industries' headquarters in Sydney. “With so many bright and capable young people coming into our industry, it’s vital we invest in them," said project leader Bill Healey, PIAA.

Venerable publishing industry production association The Galley Club returns next month with a panel session in Sydney titled 'What is the future for Print Publications.' Guest panellists will include Elizabeth Weiss from Allen & Unwin and Jon MacDonald of XOUM Publishing.

Canon Australia has extended warranties on its popular ColorPainter M-64s & H3 series of wide-format printers. “This is a powerful statement by the manufacturer and the icing on the cake for purchasers," said Tom McKerrow, Canon Professional Print.

Supplier Bobst Group has signed a deal to acquire the coating technology business of WIFAG-Polytype Group. Bobst plans to leverage the strengths of both companies and continue growing its global coating technology business.

Australasia's leading printer PMP has signed a mega deal with Currie Group to install a web-fed HP PageWide T410 inkjet, a HP Indigo 10000 B2 sheetfed and HP Indigo 7800 digital press.