Publishing

Reach to review print ops
News group Reach has posted half-year results that are ahead of market expectations, but is to review its printing capacity due to uncertainty over contract printing renewals.

Hello! revamps with print switch
Hello! magazine has switched to web offset printing for the first time as part of a change of print supplier.

Precision, Prime and Proco merge and unveil £100m target
Precision Printing, Prime Group and ProCo have joined forces to create a £45m, 360 staff multisite commercial and online print group with ambitions to nudge £100m sales in three years.

Extinction Rebellion activists arrested following Newsprinters blockades
Around 80 Extinction Rebellion activists have been arrested after they blockaded Newsprinters plants in Hertfordshire, Merseyside and North Lanarkshire on Friday night (4 September), affecting the...

News UK and Prinovis UK in paper first
News UK and Prinovis UK are set to secure an industry first this weekend when they begin the roll-out of paper banding to replace polybagging on the Sunday Times.

Book printer TJ in £1.5m-plus spend and rebrand
Cornish book printer TJ International has rebranded as TJ Books and installed a raft of new equipment as part of a £1.5m-plus investment drive aimed to increase its capacity and flexibility.

TI Media outsources paper spend
TI Media has outsourced paper procurement in what is viewed as a significant move as the publisher is integrated into new owner Future.

CPI and Wiley in new partnership
CPI Group has teamed with publisher Wiley on a new joint venture for on-demand printing and inventory management.

Reach restructures, 550 jobs to go
Reach’s newspaper printing sites are not included in a wide-scale restructure that has just been announced by the media group

Daily Mail becomes biggest newspaper
The Daily Mail has overtaken the Sun as the UK’s biggest-selling newspaper amid changes in the way news brands report circulation.