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New owners, investment funds KKR and Allegro, indicate they will keep the business going if the receiver, McGrathNicol, sells it back to them without the debt.


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The deadline for entries into this year’s Print in Print Awards is almost here, with 28 February marking the final date for late entry contenders to submit their work.

Canon Business Services Australia awarded its top local business partners in its annual Canon Partner Channel (CPC) awards, held at the Novotel Manly Pacific, Sydney, on 24 February.

Konica Minolta’s A3 MFP range has won the Buyers Lab (BLI) Line of the Year Award for the third year in a row.

GEON goes bust

GEON’s long-running saga comes to a bitter end, with the embattled print giant finally entering administration after years of financial difficulties and deepening debt.

Less than a week after iconic engineering company, Plunkett and Johnson, went under, one of its principals is back in the game to ensure printers are not left in the lurch. Johnson is back into the ring with his new company, TJ Services Australia.

Nessan Cleary, respected UK print technology journalist and one of Print21’s valued European contributors, provides the final wrap on this year’s Hunkeler Innovationdays, showcasing the Swiss event’s highlights.

Naresh Khanna, Print21 Independent Media Alliance partner, and publisher of Indian Printer & Publisher, highlights some of the innovations on show at this year’s Hunkeler Innovationdays event in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Muller Martini showcased its new Presto II Digital saddle stitcher at the Hunkeler Innovationdays trade fair in Lucerne this month, producing three different print products live and without interruption stitcher.

Kodak Announced the launch of its Prosper 5000XLi Press, the latest family addition to its popular Prosper digital press platform, on 11 February at the Hunkeler Innovationdays industry event in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Kiwi printers will be queuing up for the opening of the Currie Colour Roadshow today in Auckland as the industry’s iconic mobile showroom starts its 2nd Middle Earth tour.

Trading halt in newspaper media company’s shares as its largest shareholder, Ireland-based Independent News & Media, which owns 29 per cent of APN, seeks an extraordinary general meeting to sack managing director, Chenoweth.

It’s where the brightest and the best of the better half of our industry will gather to snaffle cornflakes and toast, drink fruit juice and coffee and chart the future destiny of printing in Australia.

Ascent Partners’ Richard Rasmussen wraps up all the local market movements that hit the Australian printing industry in January 2013.

Ricoh is recognised at the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of the most environmentally successful corporations in the world.

The iconic Artarmon-based service and engineering company ceased to trade on 8 February with the appointment of insolvency experts Dean Willcock Shepard. The failure illustrates the depth of the structural change affecting the printing industry.