Publishing

This year’s annual Power of Print seminar is to embrace the power of digital and be hosted online to ensure it’s not impacted by the Coronavirus restrictions.

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

Some of the UK’s biggest print businesses are starting to make redundancies, as the industry reshapes for the post-Corona economy.

Publisher Condé Nast has announced that it will end the use of all single-use plastic packaging by 2025, and will move to 100% certified paper by the end of next year.

The direct mail industry has welcomed Royal Mail’s incentive scheme to encourage businesses suffering as a result of the coronavirus crisis to use mailings to rebuild their revenue streams.

National and regional news group Reach has detailed an “unprecedented demand” for news and content in a trading update that also shows the full impact of the lockdown in its April trading.

Tecnau has launched a new plough-fold cut and stack finishing system for high-speed inkjet webs that UK agent IFS described as a “gamechanger” for digital book production.

US print giant LSC Communications has appointed investment bankers to explore a sale of the business that could see it broken up.

The Spectator – which lays claim to being the world’s oldest continually-published magazine – has published its 10,000th issue.

A third publishing company that falsified links to the emergency services and misled clients has been wound up by the court.