Polestar plants lend a hand for huge Xmas job

A group effort has helped Polestar to print four Christmas TV listings titles in only five days.

Its East Kilbride, Chromoworks, Chantry, Colchester, Purnell, Watford and Petty plants teamed up to print over 8m magazines - or 52m 32pp sections - after its imaging hub at Watford produced files. The titles were BBC's Radio Times, IPC Media's What's On TV and TV Times, and TV Quick, published by H Bauer.

Group sales and marketing director John Ashfield said: "This has been a tremendous achievement involving the use of 24 presses, 20 saddle-stitching lines and 14 activity centres at nine different locations."

For the first time every section was printed within the group and 96% of binding was done in-house.

Watford and Petty have both moved to CTP. Anglia should move to it next year.