NatMags outsources image cut-outs to Express KCS

The National Magazine Company (NatMags) has outsourced the production of image cut-outs for all 17 of its titles to India-based pre-media company Express KCS.

NatMags, which began working with Express KCS on four of its titles last year has since rolled out the project across all of its titles, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Esquire.

Group publishing systems manager Sean Briggs said that the combination of local account management, cost-effective pricing and high quality of service offered by Express KCS had been crucial to the deal.

"Express KCS are now integral to our everyday production," he added.

Robert Berkeley, chief executive of Express KCS, said: "We are seeing more and more publishers come to us to drive down their costs while improving the level of service they had been used to. Clearly the opportunity to cut costs is something that's very much on everyone's mind.

"These times are causing people to think not just about things like imaging and traditional repro but also about outsourcing back office activity altogether and that's something that we're talking to a number of publishers about."

Berkeley added that there were more deals in the pipeline for the India-based outsourcing giant.


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