Goodman Baylis Moves In To Magazine Printing

Midlands (UK) printer Goodman Baylis has launched a new venture in response to the demand for a specialist magazine printing services option.

Midlands (UK) printer Goodman Baylis has launched a new venture in response to the demand for a specialist magazine printing services option.

Simon Hunt has joined the Worcester-based company to launch GB Magazines, a new division of Goodman Baylis.

Commercial sheet-fed printing company Goodman Baylis has developed to a point where it has all the equipment under one roof to cater for all of the needs of magazine publishers, said the company.

In Goodman Baylis's opinion, very unusually for the UK market, perfect binding, mailing and varnishing are all available in-house, avoiding the time wasting that can occur in the transportation of work around between specialist finishers and suppliers, as well as the problems that can arise being at the behest of outworkers' schedules.

With the arrival of another press at Goodman Baylis - this time a 12-colour Heidelberg machine - the time was right to launch the new dedicated service for magazine publishers.

Simon Hunt has joined the company as managing director of GB Magazines and brings experience of magazine production, both in heatset web-offset and sheet-fed manufacturing, said Goodman Baylis.

He started in the printing industry 26 years ago at grass roots level, working in a production office for a large web printer.

He became production director for the same company, looking after all of the clients' technical requirements, from where he progressed to become sales director for the parent group of companies.

With his technical background, Hunt has the advantage of being able to guide clients through the production process, said the company.

Until recently Hnut had been managing director of the sheet-fed division of the group, taking that business from a GBP7m turnover to GBP13m in a seven year period, predominantly through magazine production.

Hunt said the launch of GB Magazines is an important and exciting new move for the printer: "GB Magazines has all of the equipment and knowledge to make life for magazine publishers easy and straight forward, giving them more valuable time to concentrate on their own businesses.

With our technical knowledge and the excellent facilities we have here, we can make a major impression on this side of the business in the months ahead." Goodman Baylis chairman Clive Parkes said the development was a logical move for the company and added: "We are one of the best equipped printers in the UK now and the arrival of the new 12-colour press and Simon's expertise, offer us a logical new opportunity that we have been successful in before to a degree but which we can now concentrate on as a business in its own right.".

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