Century Web Offset falls to administrators

Century Web Offset has been placed in administration with Southampton-based insolvency practioners Smith & Williamson, it has emerged.

Joint administrators Gregory Palfrey and David Blenkarn were appointed on Monday 26 January at the Penryn-based web offset printer.

Both administrators were unavailable at the time of writing.

According to Century’s latest published balance sheet, for the year ended 30 September 2007, it had creditors totalling around £1.8m and assets totalling £2.2m.

The company was founded in 2000. PrintWeek understands that sister company Century Litho is unaffected.