Group wins new IPC print contract

Wyndeham Press Group has picked up an additional 22 titles as it won a print tender at the expense of rival St Ives.

The firm will print the majority of IPC Media's Southbank and Inspire publications, while retaining the 23 titles it prints at Southernprint.

Wyndeham's buy-out of Southernprint last year made it "the deserved frontrunner", IPC manufacturing director Jasper Scott said.

The new contract lasts three years and is worth around £10m a year. The deal includes printing Marie Claire magazine, currently being run out by Prinovis in Nuremberg, Germany.

The deal was due to be announced in October but was delayed partly because of IPC's restructure in late 2009.

Charlie Meredith, who was appointed managing director of central operations at IPC in January, said: "I'm delighted at this early point in my new role that we have been able to complete this tender process and award the business to Wyndeham, which offers a strong and thoroughly modern portfolio of print solutions that best suits our titles moving forward."

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