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Top 25 Publishing and printing companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 442 publishing and printing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 3,119 professional contacts across them, including 754 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers publishing and printing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest publishing and printing companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clays have become a major force in this fluid and evolving world through extensive investment and a determination to react quickly to our customers’ fast moving needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CPI Books is the Trade book printing division of CPI Group UK and is part of the CPI Group, Europe's leading book printer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Queen Victoria was on the throne when enterprising Lincolnshire publisher W K Morton brought mechanical typesetting to the market town of Horncastle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wyndeham Group is the UK’s market-leading magazine and commercial web offset printing group, specialising in high quality and high pagination products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Herald & Times Group is one of Scotland's most successful and established media companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a privately owned commercial magazine and catalogue printer based in Telford, Shropshire with an established reputation for producing high quality magazines and catalogues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For nearly 50 years, Micropress has built a reputation as one of the UK's largest independent commercial printers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acorn Web Offset is a specialist printer of periodicals, catalogues and brochures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headline is part of Hachette UK, one of the UK’s biggest publishing groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CPI Group (UK) Ltd is one of the country’s leading print groups, employing 900 people across six locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Belmont Press is one of the UK's largest independent commercial colour printers and have built up an excellent reputation for high quality print and fantastic service during our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TJ Books specialise in the manufacture of quality books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1912, Stephens & George Print Group is a proudly family-owned business with over a century of expertise in litho printing for magazines and commercial products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Buxton Press - we specialise in printing publications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Imago offer production management of books, stationery, packaging, toys and games for publishing and non publishing companies from around the world, who want to benefit from our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mercure Hotels is a publishing company based out of Calle Laguna del Marquesado Nª 19, Nave 16 Edificio Adriana 1ª Planta, Polígono Industrial La Resina (Villaverde), Madrid…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a printing company based in Basildon, Essex covering all aspects of printing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experience is a valuable thing – with over 150 years in providing a professional yet personal print service to our customers throughout the UK and Ireland with no job too big or…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ashford Colour Ltd, part of the Pureprint Group, is a UK based Colour and Mono book printer and manufacturer of specialist POS print.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headley, Lower Queens Road, Ashford, Kent, TN24 8HH - 01233 623131 With over 130 years of experience, Headley is a leading digital, sheet-fed and web printer dedicated to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ancient House Press is one of the UK's most established and experienced web and sheet-fed printers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Pensord Press is an award-winning, dedicated magazine printing company with multiple decades of experience working alongside some of the best independently owned publishing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Newspaper Club helps everyone print their own newspapers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A leading supplier of publishing systems to the newspaper, magazine, book and directory industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission Statement: To achieve customer satisfaction through excellence in design, manufacture and distribution of every type of printed product.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: publishing and printing companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names publishing and printing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of publishing and printing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name publishing and printing companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Publishing and printing companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 442 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among publishing and printing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “publishing and printing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names publishing and printing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among publishing and printing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 754 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Publishing and printing companies by metro
- Publishing and printing companies in London64
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names publishing and printing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many publishing and printing companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 442 publishing and printing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
CLAYS, headquartered in Bungay, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most publishing and printing companies?
London leads with 64 headquartered companies, followed by Farnham (8) and Ipswich (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 754 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 442 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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