River, which took the plunge into offshore repro with Weight Watchers’ customer magazine Irresistible in September 2008, has now handed F1 the repro for walk magazine.

Nigel Mackay, production director of River Publishing, said: "F1 have proved its service works reliably and efficiently, also, I have seen some useful cost savings.

"What they have done so far has been a success, so the obvious next step is to develop it further by adding a new publication."

F1, which launched its locally-managed offshore service in partnership with Express KCS last August, said that it had now proved the sceptics wrong.

Managing director Ken Harrison said: "The best possible endorsement of the first publication produced off-shore for River is being asked to manage a second title.

"We have shown that it works and there isn’t a catch, so we are now getting more enquiries and I’m confident that the service will start to take off."