A North-East media company, HPM Group, famous for printing football publications has won a £200,000 contract to print Liverpool's matchday programme, reports the Northern Echo. The 100-year-old firm, based on Aycliffe Business Park, has produced Middlesbrough's matchday magazine since the 1980s and over the years has also printed them for Newcastle United, West Ham and Aston Villa.
The company currently prints the matchday magazines for Sunderland, Boro and Notts County as well as several Rugby League clubs.
Depending on how many home cup games Liverpool have this season, the Liverpool deal could be worth in excess of £200,000 for HPM.
Managing director Richard Mortimer said: "It's prestigious for us. We're producing 15-16,000 programmes every game for Liverpool, which is a very nice print run for us, so it's prestigious as opposed to game-changing for the company."
