Web offset

Polestar is set to begin printing on the first of its two new 96pp web presses at the end of this month.

Average net magazine circulation in the UK increased by 1.2% to 33.4m in the first six months of 2014, despite a mixed performance by some of publishing's biggest brands.

First-half sales are up at KBA, which came close to breaking even in the period.

A white-knight bidder is poised to step in with a rescue deal for the stricken Global MP business.

Wyndeham Group will keep Southernprint open, despite the loss of the IPC Media contract, thanks to a new working time agreement with staff.

Artisan Press is the single-biggest creditor of Quorn House Publishing, which remains up for sale.

Polestar has parted company with the managing director of its Bicester web offset site.

Manroland Web Systems has become the first worldwide authorised reseller of Kodak’s Prosper inkjet heads to the newspaper industry.

Polestar is making headway on the extension to its Sheffield site that will house the first of its new web offset presses later this year.

Artisan Press has entered into a consultation with Unite and workers at its factory over proposed job cuts that could affect almost a third of its workforce.

IPC Media has handed its multi-million pound print contract to a single supplier, in a move that has far-reaching ramifications for the UK magazine printing supply chain.

Global MP has secured a fresh £7.5m working capital facility from Centric Commercial Finance.