Web offset

Edwardthompson has invested more than £400,000 in a raft of new machinery and equipment upgrades to increase its short-run promotional games production by around 50%.

Cosmopolitan magazine has moved from web offset to gravure in its new midi-format, in a move that could have a far-reaching impact if the new size sets a publishing trend.

KBA’s latest quarterly results show more effects of its wide-ranging restructuring – the group is back in the black and more than 60% of sales now come from the packaging market.

Bertelsmann is to create Europe’s biggest printing group by putting all its print operations under one umbrella.

Polestar owner Sun Capital Partners has put a further £10m into the group by way of new equity.

Wyndeham Peterborough is capitalising on the buoyant market for children's magazines by printing a brand extension of kids’ TV show Hey Duggee, which hit the newsstands last week.

Polestar is parting company with a second main board director as the group moves to a de-centralised structure.

Polestar is proposing to close its Polestar Stones sheetfed site, after nearly two centuries in business, as the company’s chief financial officer departs for pastures new.

RR Donnelley’s Flaxby Moor, North Yorkshire print site is set to close at the end of the year, with an anticipated loss of around 200 jobs.

Woodford Litho’s equipment will be sold off by Sanderson Weatherall, via an online auction and private treaty sale.

Westdale Press has exited the web offset market after taking up a “fantastic opportunity” to sell its web press to a continental printer.

A revamp at Cosmopolitan will see the magazine switch to a new ‘midi’ print format.