Polestar

Draw a line under the Polestar years and continue to rebuild

As the curtain draws on the Polestar saga, with the last remnant of what was once the UK’s largest print group being dissolved, I can’t help but wonder if we will ever see its like again?

Polestar: flagship Sheffield supersite began winding down five years' ago this week

Final Polestar company dissolved

Five years after its ignominious collapse, the last remaining Polestar Group company has finally been dissolved.

Former Polestar book site calls in administrators

Wheatons Exeter, the former Polestar book printing facility, has fallen into administration just under a year after it was bought in an MBO following the collapse of Polestar.

2016 and all that... Polestar: six months of mayhem

No guesses as to which story dominated the news in 2016, the 20 most read stories on printweek.com for 2016 are all about Polestar...

Blaze breaks out at former Polestar site

A fire has broken out at the abandoned Polestar Petty building in Leeds.

CirclePrinters awarded Hello! print contract

European print group CirclePrinters has officially been awarded the contract to print Hello! magazine after the closure of Polestar Sheffield forced the publisher to look for an alternative.

YM Group seals short-grain deal

YM Group has made a further major expansion of its web offset capacity with the purchase of the 64pp short-grain press from the former Polestar Sheffield site.

Hibbert leaves as administrators strive to finalise Polestar deals

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert is no longer with the business.

Redundancies made at some Polestar sites

Administrators from PricewaterhouseCoopers have made an unspecified number of redundancies at Polestar plants, while potential buyers have been seen on-site scoping out the stricken group’s factories.

Will the promise of jam tomorrow ever be delivered on?

Sometimes people say clever things, but only with the benefit of hindsight.

Polestar could pay dividend for first time

Polestar has changed its capital structure in a move that will allow the group to pay its first dividend since its inception in 1998.

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.