Publishing

Polestar Sheffield gets Nordic Ecolabel accreditation
Polestar Sheffield has become the first UK printing plant to be awarded the Nordic Ecolabel environmental accreditation.

PrintWeek Awards 2013 Newspaper Printer of the Year - Trinity Mirror Printing (Watford)
This story is set to run and run: Trinity Mirror Printing (Watford) has won this category three years in a row, and what stood out for judges this year was "consistently punchy colour".

PrintWeek Awards 2013 Book Printer of the Year - Pureprint Group
Pureprint has done it again. Last year judges were won over by the team's attention to detail and post-press work; this year they were even more fulsome in praise, insisting products were...

Charles Gee Group appoints administrators
Geoff Rowley, Phil Armstrong and Andrew Sheridan, partners at FRP Advisory, have been appointed joint administrators to the Charles Gee Group of Companies and several of its trading subsidiaries.

Harrier LLC installs new Kolbus binding line
Harrier LLC has installed a Kolbus DA 260 casemaker and Kolbus BF 512 casing-in machine as part of a "heavy investment" push which has also seen the company add an eighth HP Indigo and other...

Clays prints Morrissey's 'classic' Autobiography
Clays has printed British singer-songwriter Morrissey's memoirs, <i>Autobiography</i>, which has controversially been published under the Penguin Classics imprint.

UKIP Media and Events ups the ante on print
Fulfilment bureau Air Business has signed a contract worth over 10m with publishing and exhibition business UKIP Media and Events to focus on printed marketing material.

Cameron announces late payment consultation
A consultation to tackle the problem of late payments to small businesses will launch later this year, following criticism of the Prompt Payment Code.

Frankfurt Book Fair: 'Print will always be important'
The chief executive of the world's largest trade book publisher has stressed the ongoing importance of print whilst taking part in a panel discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week (9-13...

Haymarket contract renewal seals 50-year partnership with Wyndeham
Wyndeham Group has renewed a printing contract with its longest standing client, Haymarket Media Group, until December 2017, taking the relationship between printer and publisher to 50 years.