Publishing

Creative cover first for Stella magazine
Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine featured its first commercial use of an innovative ‘Maltese cross’ multi-page promotional cover format.

TVGuide.co.uk hails successful print launch
TV magazine, the spin-off ‘freemium’ print magazine of website TVGuide.co.uk, has reported a successful first few months, as it adapts its online content to suit the print title’s city...

MBO deal confirmed at York Mailing
Just 18 months after joining the business, York Mailing chief financial officer Stephen Goodman has led an MBO at the £100m group.

Cosmo opts for new print format
A revamp at Cosmopolitan will see the magazine switch to a new ‘midi’ print format.

60 seconds with Fine Print
Fine Print started life in Oxford in 1991. The firm, run by managing director Dan Bakewell since an MBO in 2003, still holds to the guiding principles of the founder – hire the best people and give...

ABCs don’t reveal the whole story
The recent release of the ABC figures for net circulation of magazines between January and June 2015 showed the usual continuing falling circulation figures across the board, yet publishers and...

Q&A: Derek Knoll Chairman, Hastings Printing Co
Derek is 83 and has been in the trade since he was 14, a whopping 69 years – beat that! He still goes into the office twice a week and likes to keep up with advances within the trade.

Printing error blamed for missing text in Go Set a Watchman books
A printing error has been blamed for missing text in a number of copies of one of this century’s most hotly anticipated books.

Artisan Press shortfall tops £7m
The family owners behind Artisan Press are facing an investigation into the legal ownership of some associated farmland as part of the administration process, as it emerged the firm had an estimated...

Printer marries vibrant colour with metallic paper
Print North East has produced a wedding brochure for Newcastle’s Vermont Hotel, designed to replicate its luxurious surroundings and represent the high quality of its wedding events offering.