Singapore Post has announced that it will acquire Hong Kong-based Novation Solutions for US$9.8m, through its wholly owned subsidiary, DataPost, a move it will fund from Singapore Post's internal resources.

Having just completed a move to new premises Melbourne envelope over printer PrintTMail is to take on the name of its new owner Candida in the next couple of months.

Australian mailing house and printer supplier Cheque-Mates has opened a new facility in the Philippines, which it claims will enable it to provide better service to its growing international client base.

Heric says the extinction of the monster sized Christmas catalogue serves a warning to printers to focus on document production  in print and non-print versions

Lee Gallagher, director of Precision Marketing Solutions at InfoPrint Solutions Company, spent a week in Australia to discuss the importance of personalisation and leveraging data in relation to marketing messaging. Wayne Robinson gives us the details

In the running for the most innovative piece of new equipment manufactured within Australia in recent times is the Direct Target Mailer DTM 8000, which takes a preprinted A3 sheet, cuts it, folds it and creates an envelope with one half and inserts the other half as a flyer

Studies by an Australia Post working group and the CMO Council found that mail remains the preferred method of communication by consumers across of variety of sectors

Printers have a powerful opportunity to increase their revenues by leveraging new technologies to take a slice of the mailstream. Pitney Bowes Australia marketing and business development director Michelle Sheehan explains

Network Services, the distribution arm of PBL Media’s ACP Magazines has picked up a number of clients from IPMG’s distribution business NDD after the business closed last month.

Australia Post has introduced its price increase for basic postage rates (BPR) this week, dashing Printing Industries’ hopes of a last minute intervention from Stephen Conroy, minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy.

Fairfax Media is considering options to share printing and distribution facilities with newspaper publishing rivals in order to reduce costs.

Printing Industries has branded as a “charade” the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) decision not to object to Australia Post’s proposed price increases. The decision will see price rises in letter services from June 28 which will apply to Small, Large and PreSort letter services.

After acquiring VDP software company XMPie in 2006, Fuji Xerox has laid the groundwork for the New Zealand printing and marketing industries to embrace a technology that it expects to improve marketing response rates and bottom lines

Some 82 per cent of printers say their business productivity would be affected if Australia Post goes ahead with a proposed price increase, according to an online survey conducted by Printing Industries.

Printing Industries has released an online survey to gather information on the likely impacts of the latest bid by Australia Post to increase postal rates.

Indian newspaper printer Kasturi & Sons is continuing to decentralise production and has recently equipped its printing centre in Coimbatore with mailroom technology from Ferag.

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Salmat’s profits were up 21.9 per cent to $24.3m in the first half of 2009-10 compared with $19.9m during the same period the year before. While the company reported total mail volumes were down four per cent, its Targeted Media Solutions division earnings increased by 40.5 per cent to $20.7m following strong outcomes from efficiency programmes and new business wins.

This WA digital, mail and fulfilment house has just installed its third Sitma, from AMT, which comes with a host of added value features

Galloping Press has installed a new mailing and fulfillment line from MailPack in order to help grow its business

For many commercial printers mailing and fulfilment services are being recognised as potential new revenue streams, after all the printer already has the customer, and a fair amount of print is in need of mailing

If you’re not familiar with the term ‘personalisation’ and the opportunities it offers, then it’s probably time that you retired

Australian measurement information company Scale Components’ CubiScan 150 manifesting table has recently been pattern approved by the National Measurement Institute (NMI) for legal trade measurement.

The Bali Post, an Indonesian language newspaper has invested in a new Goss Community SSC press in order to provide additional colour capacity, transforming the 20-page title from a 60 per cent black and white publication to a full colour title.

A team from Saatchi DGS had its entry judged the supreme winner of the 2008 Art Of The Envelope Awards, which were held on Thursday night in Auckland.

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

IPMG has surprised the industry with a decision to build a giant new gravure site, due to be commissioned in late 2009. It will be the first publication gravure site to run in the country for more than 30 years, and will produce a variety of printed products including magazines, inserts, direct mail material, brochures and books.

Finishing and mailing solutions company GBC Australia has been appointed Australian distributer for digital press and finishing technology manufacturer MGI. The agreement will include all of MGI’s products, which will be on display in GBC’s Melbourne and Sydney showrooms.

Baldwin Technology Company announced it has received a $1.8m order from Jomo Shimbun, a major Japanese daily newspaper with a circulation of approximately 312,000.

The 1135sq m HP Indigo Centre of Excellence in Singapore is divided into five main areas: Commercial Printing, Photo Specialty, Direct Mail, HP Indigo Finishing Solutions and Label Converting & Specialty Printing.

Baldwin Technology Company has announced it has received a $3.3m order from Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan’s five national newspapers with the country’s sixth largest circulation.