Jo Francis and Hormazd Sorabjee to present top prism for PWI Company of the Year
With 116 print companies, over 330 entries and more than thousand samples, 30 August (Thursday) will be the D-day to honour the best in print, where the 'top prism' will be handed over to the winners of the 19 quality categories and six performance categories.
21 Aug 2012 | 3814 Views | By PrintWeek India
The top award for company of the year will be handed over by Hormazd Sorabjee, editor of Autocar India and Jo Francis, contributing editor of PrintWeek, UK, who is also the chief guest for the awards night.
Hormazd Sorabjee has been an integral part of the PwintWeek India Awards and also released the Book of the Night, a compilation of the award winners, in 2009 and 2011. Sorabjee has been writing about cars for over 25 years and driven everything on wheels from a 65-ton battle tank to a Formula 1 car.
Likewise Jo Francis has worked in print-related businesses for more than 25 years. Along the way she has been a typesetter, a screen printer, a technical and customer support pre-press specialist, a communications consultant, and an editor. She is a former editor-in-chief of PrintWeek magazine and was in the news for her big scoop on Benny Landa during Drupa 2012.
Both Sorabjee and Francis will hand-over the prism; as part of the finale to the Awards night.
"The PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year is handed over to the company who sets goals and targets and achieves it with aplomb," said Noel D'cunha, deputy editor of PrintWeek India.
The print firms who have been shortlisted for the Company of the Year 2012 are Gautam Paper Udhyog (Surat), International Print-o-Pac (Noida), ITC Limited (Chennai), Manipal Technologies (Manipal), Pragati Offset (Hyderabad) and Replika Press (Kundli).
As D'cunha said: For the PrintWeek India Company of the Year, the official auditors, J K Doshi & Co look at the business performance of the short-listed companies. These categories take into account the quality of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts; investment in technology and people; and other achievements, such as the winning of new contracts, or the overcoming of exceptional circumstances."
In the first three editions, Manipal Technologies (2009), International Print O Pac (2010) and Parksons Packaging (2011) bagged the top prize. This year there is a lot of speculation about who will bag "the biggest one of them all".
To book your seat for the PrintWeek India Awards night on 30 August, contact Anish Zacharia at +91 22 4302 5005 or anish@haymarket.co.in