Rhodes. Pagemasters to double business

The Australian Associated Press (AAP), based at Rhodes, expects to double the business of its newspaper production company, Pagemasters, over the next two to three years. “Clearly with all the pressures that newspapers are under, we are getting inquiries from publishers all over the world. There is a tremendous upside to the Pagemasters business,” said CEO, Clive Marshall, in The Sydney Morning Herald. The unit makes up close to 20 per cent of AAP’s more than $60 million in annual revenues.

Rhodes. London paper outsources

Production of sections of the London daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, is understood to have commenced at the head office of Australian Associated Press (AAP), at Rhodes. In an attempt to costs, unedited copy is transmitted from London to Rhodes were it is produced Pagemasters before being transmitted back to London, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Pagemasters, a company owned by AAP and set up in 1991, has more than doubled staff over the past two years to about 140 people, who subedit about 1800 pages a week.