Océ signs up The Australian for digital newspaper network
London, England—10 November 2009—News Corporation’sThe Australian has started making its own headlines in London by becoming the latest title to sign up to print at Océ’s Digital Newspaper Network production site at Stroma in London.
In a deal that will see UK readers get their favourite newspaper up to six hours before it’s available in Australia, Océ, the No. 1 newspaper in digital production, is gearing up to expand its network even further across the world.
Copies of the are printed at Stroma’s digital production site in Southall, west London, and made available to passengers on board Qantas flights returning to Australia.
The launch of The Australian in London is another reason to celebrate for Océ, which has produced more than 20million digital newspapers worldwide, a quarter of which have been rolled off the presses at Stroma.
Océ already has six production sites – at Singapore, New York, Los Angeles,Sydney andMerenschwandinSwitzerland – and The Australian joins another 15 titles produced digitally as part of its expanding network. These span different continents and include titles such as The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times and the Globe and Mail, Toronto.
Steve Brown, Managing Director of Stroma, said: “Everybody knows there are challenging times in the newspaper market, but companies such as News Corporation, together with other major publishers, know that producing newspapers digitally opens up other potential revenue streams.We are proud to be the pioneers of Océ’s Digital Newspaper Network, which now has six sites around the world. And through our own means we’ve also extended our own portfolio of titles in London that now includes 75 titles across the globe.”
Paul Krisson, Océ’s leading specialist in digital newspapers, said: “We are proud and delighted that the successful production of the Sydney Morning Herald in London has spurred on News Corporation to begin running their premier Australian title, The Australian, as part of the same Océ Digital Newspaper Network offering at Stroma. Now passengers in business and first class will have the luxury of reading tomorrow’s newspapers today when they fly back to Australia on Qantas flights. This is another significant step forward for Océ, the company that hasover 80% of the world’s contracted digital newspaper production running on Océ presses.”
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About Océ
Océ is one of the world’s leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The broad Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and colour display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the world’s Fortune 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in over 90 countries and employs some 23,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in 2008 amounted to €2.9 billion. For more information on Océ, visit www.oce.com