Web offset

Wyndeham Peterborough is capitalising on the buoyant market for children's magazines by printing a brand extension of kids’ TV show Hey Duggee, which hit the newsstands last week.

Polestar is parting company with a second main board director as the group moves to a de-centralised structure.

Polestar is proposing to close its Polestar Stones sheetfed site, after nearly two centuries in business, as the company’s chief financial officer departs for pastures new.

RR Donnelley’s Flaxby Moor, North Yorkshire print site is set to close at the end of the year, with an anticipated loss of around 200 jobs.

Woodford Litho’s equipment will be sold off by Sanderson Weatherall, via an online auction and private treaty sale.

Westdale Press has exited the web offset market after taking up a “fantastic opportunity” to sell its web press to a continental printer.

A revamp at Cosmopolitan will see the magazine switch to a new ‘midi’ print format.

Allison Printers has boosted business after investing in its second “low cost” Hans Gronhi Sanxin press.

KBA is optimistic about its prospects for the full year, although it has a way to go to hit its €1bn (£708m) annual sales target.

Woodford Litho has officially gone into administration.

Sales at Polestar declined by almost £1m a month last year, with the continuing fall-off in newspaper circulations hitting its contract gravure supplement printing business.

Woodford Litho is poised to go into administration in what is being described as a “managed process”.