Press

The Kent Messenger Group is a family owned business that was established in 1859 and to date has expanded to publish and print 22 weekly paid for titles and 17 weekly free titles which account for more than 700,000 copies per week. As an independent company, we offer unrivalled levels of customer service and support to our contract customers.

In the early 1990's, the company invested £10m in a new press hall and Goss Visa printing press. Since then the press installation has continued to be developed. In 1999 two Goss 4 x high towers were added, giving up to 64 pages of additional colour. Tandem feeders were also added in our mailroom to increase our inserting capacity to 4 items per publication.

In 2001 a further two 4 x high towers and a third folder from KBA were added. In 2003 a further two 4 x high colour towers were added making six in all.

KM publications are now able to print with colour on every page. In the summer of 2003 an on-line trimming facility from Ferag was added. In February 2005 the KM became the first regional publisher to install a polybagging line, enabling it to protect its newspapers and supplements in a bag.

Goss Colorliner Press