Leipa Graphic Paper increases prices at short notice

French retailer Cora says it will use its print advertising in a more targeted way and reduce it altogether. Particularly its advertising brochures, which used to contain about forty pages and were distributed to non-addressed households, will be reduced to four pages now. Printed copies of the full brochure will only...

Canadian company Irving Paper is forced to reduce operations temporarily by 50 per cent. The company announced on 21 July that it did not expect to resume full-scale operation before the end of Week 29. The company says it took the decision because electricity costs are currently over four times higher than normal....

Newsprint producers expect strong business in the fourth quarter: in this regard, however, buyers are sceptical. They believe that high paper costs and the frequent lack of a planning horizon for print projects will further slow down print advertising. Conditions are seen to ease in the German newsprint market. On the...