The country's biggest franchise print operation Snap is appointing a new CEO, with Richard Thame set to get behind the desk on 16 December.

Digital flexible packaging operation ePac is investing some US$100m with HP for a new fleet of 24 HP Indigo 20000 digital presses, with which it it will serve its rapidly growing number of customers with on-demand, short-run packaging.

Wide format and 3D solutions systems supplier Roland DG is giving the trade an early Christmas present in a deal that lets printers have its equipment now, but with nothing to pay until the new year.

Fresh from its conscious uncoupling with Fujifilm, imaging giant Xerox is making an audacious bid to buy HP, slapping a US$33bn cash and shares bid on the table in New York.

The Fespa organiser says visitors to the wide format Global Print Expo 2020 in Madrid next March will discover a content-rich event, including a programme of features “designed to inform and inspire in equal measure”.

Visy is selling its Visy Cartons business to long term partner SIG for $70m, with SIG set to use the business to drive growth across the Asia Pacific.

Oji Fibre Solutions is investing around $100m in a new automated cardboard box plant development in Christchurch, which will come with the latest printing technology.

Private equity fund Mercury Capital is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy the country’s biggest magazine publisher Bauer Media from its German owners.

Chili_publish will launch version 6.0 of its Chili_publisher software before the end of the year, promising turbo-charged speed, and spot colour reproduction from CMYK.

Print broker Pulse Print Solutions is causing industry ire with an online post promoting a job it is producing for a local business – which is being printed in China.

Print & Visual Communication Association (PVCA) and Visual Connections confirm that the LIA Biennial Award Recipients from 2017 and 2019 have received their prize money, and will shortly be making travel plans for the trip of a lifetime from Adelaide to Düsseldorf for drupa 2020.

Kodak has launched its call for entries for its sixth Sonora Plate Green Leaf awards, which are designed to celebrate print service providers that are leading the way in adopting sustainable printing practices.

Wide format solutions supplier Starleaton is running an open house for the next two weeks centred on the EFI Pro 16h LED hybrid printer, which it calls “the ultimate growth tool”.

Heidelberg subsidiary Gallus has sold its 100th Labelmaster flexo printing press, two years after the platform was launched at that year's Labelexpo, making it the fastest-selling Gallus press in history.

The wave of closures and consolidations impacting the Victoria print industry in the last two weeks has claimed one of Melbourne's biggest printers, with Waratah Group in external administration and essentially finished. Rival printer Finsbury Green has bought the customer list, and will be bringing a substantial number of the 170 staff over.

The long running dispute between Fuji Xerox joint owners Fujifilm and Xerox, which erupted last year over a proposed $6bn merger, has ended with the two companies agreeing a way forward.