The t’s are crossed and the i’s are dotted on the Blue Star buy-out of Sydney’s iconic Lilyfield business from German STI Group. The official handover is now set for June 30, as Blue Star gets serious about boosting its wide format and POP offering.

The Truepress Jet L350UV nabbed a gold trophy at the eighth annual European Digital Press (EDP) association awards, held at last month's FESPA Digital show in Munich. From a pool of over 120 suppliers, Screen's leading digital label press took home the prize for "Best Label Printing Solution".

A step too far for industry consolidation as the Selig and Hannan families pull back from the brink of creating Australia’s largest printing company. Too many uncertainties and the potential costs of rationalising weighed against the benefits of the proposed $700 million merger.

Gallus owner Ferdinand Rüesch cashes in its shares for an anchor stake with Heidelberg. In a landmark trade-off, Heidelberg picks up 100% ownership of Gallus while the share swap deal leaves Ferdinand Rüesch as its single largest shareholder, controlling 9% of the company.

Paul Tannous, former managing director, will be one of a significant number of iGroup employees to join the Selig brothers' growing printing enterprise. The acquisition adds another building block to the rapid expansion of the Blue Star empire.

The World’s largest English-speaking Printing and Graphic Technology Exhibition is past. This evening event is your chance to hear first hand from those who attended the show, and whose job it is to bring us up to date and to keep us informed.

Management buyout team takes former NZ Post business into the winner’s circled with HP Indigo DM. The Wellington-based digital printing business, Kinetic, scooped the awards on its first outing since returning to private ownership.

Early closing and lock out laws are squeezing the promotional budgets and revenue of bars and clubs with a dramatic knock-on effect on print suppliers. The clamp down on late-night trading in Sydney’s entertainment districts has hit the demand for flyers, postcards, POP and advertising handouts.

The milestone is regarded by the company as an endorsement of the L-4033 technology with increasing acceptance by label converters in the local market. There are currently four SurePress installations in Australia and New Zealand.

Derek Williamson, digital imaging manager, West Australian Newspapers is the recipient of this year’s GAMAA Industry Overseas Internship Grant. He intends to explore the uses of continuous feed digital printing, especially as it applies to newspapers.

Keep up to date and across all the most recent industry movements, mergers and major installations with Richard Rasmussen, director of Ascent Partners. For the latest installment of Market Watch, there was very little action on the acquisition and merger front, but sadly four closures.

Going out to engage the design community is central to Tony Bertrand’s plan to put value back into paper marketing. This is his manifesto. You can have any color you like as long as it's White or Cream?

It’s another shining line-up across the pond, as the New Zealand printing industry celebrates its own night of nights, at this year’s Pride in Print awards. The tentpole event showcased the very best of NZ print, with supreme award going to the team at GTO Printers in a landslide win.

Tough prices, decreased activity from customers and the difficulty in maintaining product differentiation all contributed to a dismal financial performance for wide-format supplier Anitech. The result helped to tip the half yearly result of 50% owner, HGL, into a statutory loss of $2.4 million.

Trade print specialist CMYKhub picks up another Ryobi 920 eight-colour LED-UV perfector, its second in just under a year. The new press supes up the trade network’s Queensland manufacturing plant, more than doubling its capacity to deliver on tighter-than-ever deadlines.