Publishing

St Ives has put out its second positive trading update in as many months, resulting in an upturn in the group’s share price.

Global affairs magazine and brand Monocle has launched a new newspaper, the Monocle Summer Weekly, with the first of four issues hitting newsstands today (10 August).

Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror have reached agreement on new “mutually supportive” multi-year printing contracts.

The company formerly known as Houseprint appears to have changed identity again and complaints are continuing to flood in from disgruntled clients.

Commercial printer Printexpress has invested around £40,000 in two new Konica Minolta presses and a Watkiss binder in a bid to bring book production in-house.

Pureprint has expanded its packaging operation by relocating it to a new larger site in Hertfordshire.

A strong performance from the i newspaper has helped bolster interim results at Johnston Press, which is battling to reinvent itself in the face of huge decline in classified advertising.

Trinity Mirror has reported an expected fall in revenue and profit as it increases its structural cost savings target for the year to £20m.

Commercial printer Charlesworth Press has invested in a Horizon BQ-470 four-clamp perfect binder to support increasing demand for personalised books.

After the first stage of its three-year cost-cutting programme the Guardian Media Group (GMG) has driven down losses by a third and seen revenue and membership gains.