Trader may go in GMG review

The Guardian Media Group (GMG) will conduct a strategic review that could include the sale of Trader Media Print Group, which owns printers Apple Web Offset in Warrington, Acorn Web Off-set in Normanton, West York-shire, and Wiltshire in Bristol.

The group would not officially confirm or deny reports in The Sunday Times and its own paper The Guardian that it is preparing a strategic review in the next few weeks.

But a GMG spokesman said: "In the dynamic and fast changing world of the media, [GMG] regularly reviews its investment portfolio."

He added that GMG had not hired financial advisers to conduct a review and it would be "wrong to speculate on the outcome of any such review".

Trader Media Group declined to comment.