Publishing

Phillips: "We are always looking to diversify and fuel our growth"

Paragon CC moves into on-demand books with Ricoh spend

Ricoh has scooped a major deal with Paragon Customer Communications that will see the business add book-on-demand production to the array of facilities at its Dagenham supersite.

Catté: praised for his vision and hard work at the helm of CPI

Change at the top of CPI

CPI Group executive director Pierre-François Catté will step down at the end of March, and the group is appointing a chief operating officer instead as a result.

Severn: "strong resilience throughout 2020"

Severn under new ownership

Severn has been acquired in a secondary management buyout and is poised to commission its latest investment in Canon sheetfed inkjet technology.

Holmen: 37gsm options means printed products could become up to 16% lighter

Holmen adds lighter weight Uniq option

Holmen Paper aims to enhance its environmental appeal with a new lighter grammage version of its Uniq super-calendered paper.

Reach: digital revenues are up, as is cross-promotion of national and regional titles

Reach updates on trading

Reach has described print circulations as “resilient” in a trading update ahead of its year-end results, but there’s no update on its print plant rationalisation plans as yet.

OK!: issued dated 23 November is first to be printed by Walstead

OK! switches printer, launches beauty box

OK! magazine has become the latest high-profile title to switch from gravure to web offset printing.

Installation of the second Rapida 145 started last week

Bell & Bain takes second K&B delivery and reveals acquisition

Bell & Bain has taken delivery of the second of its two new Rapida 145 large-format presses from Koenig & Bauer and has revealed it acquired press engineering specialist Lithotec Services earlier this...

Reach: balancing production of its regional and national titles, and contract work

Reach plans to close two plants

Reach is proposing to close the newest newspaper printing facility in the UK, with two of its print sites set for the chop with the potential loss of 150 jobs.

Some of JPIMedia's newsbrands

Newspaper print plants change hands

DMG Media has acquired JPIMedia’s three newspaper printing sites ahead of an expected sale of the rest of the regional publishing group.

Walstead's current footprint: group is still on the lookout for suitable acquisitions

Walstead plays waiting game on M&A, expects more rivals will fail

Walstead group chief executive Paul Utting believes it is “inevitable” that some competitors will fail when government coronavirus support packages come to an end, with the web and gravure markets...