	bpcc planning sale of packaging operations the british printing and communication corp plc bpl l is considering selling its specialist packaging and labelling operations a spokeswoman said she gave no dates or prices for the transaction but said the units would be sold by negotiation she declined to give any turnover or profit figures for the packaging and labelling operations beyond saying that they were very profitable they formed a self contained part of the overall group she said analysts said the packaging and labelling division could be sold for up to mln stg earlier this week group chairman robert maxwell also said it expected to float its mirror group newspaper subsidiary bought from reed international plc reed l for mln stg in the spokeswoman said that bpcc intended to keep a majority share in the newspaper group if it was floated bpcc is currently locked in legal battles resulting from its attempt to take over u s publisher harcourt brace jovanovich inc hbj earlier this week bpcc launched a two for three rights issue to raise mln stg and said the money raised would enable it to renew its assault on harcourt it has also expressed interest in dutch publisher kluwer nv kluw as reuter 
