Publishing

Immediate Media in £24m Future titles swoop
Immediate Media has acquired Future's Sports and Craft titles, which have an audited print circulation of more than 250,000 a month, in a deal valued at up to £24m.

Trinity Mirror beats first half expectations
Trinity Mirror’s share price jumped by 20.5p, or 11.5%, after the newspaper publisher and printer reported first half results that were ahead of expectations.

Comic book fans celebrate a long and colourful history
The words ‘comic book’ bring for most a fairly specific image to mind. Or rather two specific images: superheroes of the Marvel and DC Comics ilk exploding thrillingly across the page, and cheeky...

Sun Capital confirms River deal and Polestar collaboration
Polestar owner Sun European Partners has confirmed that one of its affiliates has purchased River Group and expanded on its plans for the customer publisher to work in partnership with Polestar.

Polestar owner Sun plans River acquisition
An affiliate of Sun European Partners, owner of Polestar Group, is understood to be on the verge of acquiring the contract publishing business River Group.

Dot Gradations ceases trading following handover
Repro firm Dot Gradations has ceased trading following a handover of its archives and order book to Tag Publishing.

CPI follows digital spend with new hardback book line
CPI UK has boosted its trade hardback book capacity by 50% with the installation of a new Kolbus casing-in line at its CPI Mackays site in Chatham, Kent.

CPI ramps up digital book production with third Quantum
CPI UK is to boost its high-speed inkjet web book printing firepower by more than 60% with the installation of a third ‘Quantum’ line this summer – its largest to date.
Felix Dennis RIP
Jo Francis mourns the passing of the mercurial publishing legend. She can but hope to see his like again.

Polestar extends contract with Cross Country Trains
Cross Country Trains has renewed its timetable production contract with Polestar Applied Solutions.