Print buying

Polestar to print new perfume magazine for River Group
River Group has appointed Polestar to produce new in-store title Scent after it won the contract from retail chain The Perfume Store.

Retail Services Group invests in wide-format kit
Retail Services Group has invested in an array of flatbed printing and cutting equipment to allow it to bring its retail display production in-house after previously outsourcing it.

Elliott Baxter expands with new Scottish base
Elliott Baxter (EBB) has opened a site in Glasgow as part of a broader plan to ensure EBB's products and services are available throughout the UK.

The Dandy to move online
Publisher DC Thomson has announced that the December issue of Britain's longest-running children's comic, <i>The Dandy</i>, will be its last printed edition after readership dwindled to less than...

Informa rebrands Northprint and eyes ambitious growth
Ipex organiser Informa has rebranded its biennial Northprint show as part of a plan to broaden the appeal of the Harrogate event.

PPA urges publishers to promote magazine wrap recycling
New Professional Publishers Association (PPA) guidance advises publishers to join a membership scheme designed to encourage better public magazine polywrap recycling.

SP Group awarded £1m Holland & Barrett contract
SP Group, the retail and POS division of St Ives, has sealed a £1m contract with Holland & Barrett's parent company NBTY Europe.
Print industry news roundup: Stationers' Company, Your Print Partner, HP, Intoprint UK, Printing.com, Pitney Bowes, Shawbrook Bank
Stay up to date with your procurement supply chain thanks to print industry news at your fingertips. This week: IFS' Tony Hards becomes Liveryman of Stationers' Company; Your Print Partner to double...

Southernprint scores another coup with Egmont
The Wyndeham Group subsidiary has signed a deal with Egmont Publishing Group after it won the contract to produce new Disney Pixar magazine, <i>Brave</i>.

News Corp posts $1.6bn loss as NOTW costs soar
The multi-billion dollar costs of the investigation into the closure of the <i>News of the World</i> (NOTW) last July have restricted financial growth at News Corporation.

Guardian Media Group records 76m operating loss
Guardian Media Group's (GMG) accounts for the year ending 1 April 2012 reveal pre-tax losses of 75.6m, a stark contrast to the pre-tax profit of 9m recorded a year earlier.

BSS invests 200,000 following contract wins
BSS has bought an array of folding and wrapping equipment following a string of client wins, including one of Scotland's "leading broadsheet Sunday newspapers".