Winners of PrintWeek India Performance Awards 2012
The winners of PrintWeek India Performance Awards are:
24 Aug 2012 | 2316 Views | By PrintWeek India
Printweek India Company Of The Year
Manipal Technologies (Manipal)
Tel: 91-820-2571151-55 / info@manipaltechnologies.com
PrintWeek India Company of the Year for 2012 is Manipal Technologies; and deservedly so. The Manipal-based printing firm with operations in Bengaluru and Chennai boasts of five print factories, 4,000 strong team, and a professionally run operation.
The Rs 27.75 crore family-run printing business in 1998 has transformed to a Rs 2775 crore well-diversified print services and business solutions organisation. According to our official audit, Manipal Technologies scored the highest - among the major contenders in this category - in terms of percentage change in current asset (Net) of 61.21%. Likewise it showed an increase in net worth to turnover at the highest 22.5%.
Manipal Technologies has a very current ratio of 5.1:1. This is in keeping with Gautham Pai’s vision for the company. He says: “For the print business the turnover for this year is Rs 500-cr.”
He adds, ‘We intend to reach Rs 600-cr ... And the plan is to reach Rs 2,000-cr in the next five years. It will include products and service solutions.”
Today Manipal Technologies (MTL) is the country’s largest integrated print solutions provider. Manipal Media Network is a dominant regional player in the publishing and entertainment industry, and Primacy-MVP Group which is the largest producer and exporter of premium designer aromatic candles having the largest distribution network in US home fragrance market.
Commended
Gautam Paper Udhyog (Surat)
International Print-o-Pac (Noida)
ITC Limited (Chennai)
Pragati Offset (Hyderabad)
Replika Press (Kundli)
Post-Press Company Of The Year
Replika Press (Kundli)
Tel: 91-130-2219044-45-46 / info@replikapress.com
Replika Press makes it two in two in a tough category which had International Print-o-Pac, Manipal Technologies and Parksons Graphics make it to the final shortlist. But the Kundli-based Replika bagged the Post-Press Company of the Year in 2012; as they did in 2011 when they entered for the first time.
The company is planning to diversify in to digital printing for short-run jobs and further automate its post-press to ensure faster production. Today, the firm has two dedicated printing plants capable of producing 1.2 billion books a year. The company is powered by a staff of around 500 people. Replika Press aggregates about 80% of its work from its export clientele serving the who’s who of the internationally publishing fratenity. This translates into 2,500 titles per year ranging from medical, scientific, technical, cook books and coffee table books.
Replika Press is an ISO 9001:2008, FSC, SMETA/Prelims and BSCI social audit accredited, SAP ERP compliant and 100% export oriented unit (EOU) company. Today, the firm which is capable of producing 1.15 lakh books (50k hard cover and 65 soft cover) per day with the achieved turnover of Rs 88 cr last year, is expecting a buoyant 25% growth for 2012. The net worth and fixed asset has gone up by 11.81% and 18.27% respectively. And the current ratio for 2012 is 2.37:1.
Commended
International Print-o-Pac (Noida)
Manipal Technologies (Manipal)
Parksons Graphics (Mumbai)
Pre-Press Company Of The Year
Color Dots Pre-Press Studio (Delhi)
Tel: 91-11-26371731 / info@color-dots.com
Color Dots Prepress Studio, the New Delhi-based firm is the Pre-Press Company of the Year Award 2012.
This honour recognises Color Dot’s financial performance, its innovations and long-term success opportunities. This is the first PrintWeek India Award for the company.
The company situated in the Okhla Industrial Area boasts of solid financial returns during 2011-12 on capital employed and a net profit that is pegged at 44.59% and 8.46% respectively. That’s not all. It has also reported a current ratio of 1.54:1 in this year.
Established in 2003 as a computer-to-film (CTF) service bureau, the owner Tarun Chopra with a team of five, set out to provide customer service to the printers in Delhi with positives that deliver superior quality prints.
In the next four years, the company added digital proofing and CTP services to its offering. Today the company has a staff of 15 and its head, Chopra is India’s second Ugra certified expert for PSO with experience for setting up printing presses for compliance to international printing standards.
Besides this, Color Dot also claims to be one of the only pre-press house in India, which can produce plates for 10-micron printing as well as staccato screening commercially.
Chopra believes quality pre-press service can assure you the three ‘R’. “Reduce press downtime due to inconsistent imaged plates; reduce press downtime due to inconsistent data handling; and reduce press downtime due to inconsistent colour management issues.” He advises printers to use their presses to do something that it is supposed to do. “Print,” he says.
Color Dots has grown from a film service provider to a complete CTP solution and service provider. It has also installed a digital print production press, with which it intends to position its digital services for challenging print proofing segment.
Chopra says, “In the past five years we have achieved remarkable success and demonstrated enormous growth potential. We believe that our broad portfolio of pre-press and digital services, our innovative leading technologies, our superior execution and a promising print market, positions us well for the future.”
Commended
Comart Lithographers (Mumbai)
Screen Printer Of The Year
Classic Stripes
Tel: +91-22-66793500 / info@classicstripes.com
In the commended last year, Classic Stripes won this year’s top accolades in the Screen Printing segment with a range of decals for automobiles that had the judges quote, “Unique. It has succinctness, nothing superfluous. It’s hip, too!”
Classic Stripes created the decals: 5,925 units of Land Cruiser Pickup Blaze and 1,250 units of Cerato Star for Saud Bahwan, 500 Air exhaust 1255C and Score C 016 each for Autographix. The company used automotive grade transparent PVC vinyl and printed on Atma flatbed semi-automatic machine. Finishing process included kiss-cut punching.
Special features of the entries, was the special metallic colour used that had the capability to withstand five years of outdoor life.
Classic Stripes (CSPL) established in 1987, is one of the largest manufacturers of automotive graphics in the world, with a production capacity of over 15 million automotive graphic sets per annum. Today, CSPL has a significant market share in the Indian automotive OEM printing industry. CSPL has presence in the UK, USA and the Middle East.
Besides being a formidable force in the print segment, Classic Stripes is a top place to work in too. The company has been featured in the “Top 25 best places to work in India”, a survey conducted by Great Place to Work Institute (India) in partnership with Business World and Economic Times between 2005-2011.
Commended
Any Graphics (Noida)
Classic Stripes (Vasai)
Excel Sign Solutions (Valsad)
First Impression (Mumbai)
Gautam Paper Udyog (Surat)
Screen Art Enterprises (Mumbai)
Small Printer Of The Year
Prabhat Printing Works (Pune)
Tel: 91-20-24262487, 24262587, 24262687 / info@prabhatprinting.com
After CMYK (Jalgaon); Vyoma Graphics (Pune) in 2010 and PrintExpressions (Delhi) in 2011; it’s the turn of Pune-based Prabhat Printing Works (PPW) to bag the Small Printer of the Year in 2012.
Founded in 1944 by late Kanakmal Lalchand Munot, a social reformist and freedom fighter, PPW has a simple Gandhian philosophy of ‘simple living and high thinking’. Today, the press is located in a 15,000 sq/ft area that is equipped with the latest equipment. Interestingly enough most of the equipment in the press has been inaugurated by Anna Hazare who is close to the Munot family.
Alok Munot, the third generation at PPW says, “Growth is good. We are probably one of the rare print companies in Pune to demand the right price and our clients know about the quality, service and satisfaction that we provide.”
A look at the balance sheet indicates the firm has witnessed an increase in turnover of around 35.36%, which has helped the company to shift from a loss to profit this year, with an increase of 54.03% even after a hike in expenditure for staff of 25.3% as compared to last year. The ratio for current year is 2.4:1.
It has the highest increase in net profit ratio in this category; narrowly pipping last year’s winner PrintExpression in terms of return on capital.
Commended
Dilip Printing House (Kolkata)
Drishti Offset (Bhopal)
Genie Prints Private Limited (Chandigarh)
PrintExpressions (Gurgaon)
Sujilee Color Printers (Kollam)
Viraj Prints (Mumbai)
Student Of The Year
Fehmida Shaikh
(SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai)
Among the applicants, Fehmida Shaikh’s consistent academic records and research presentations during the course of her studies at SIES College of Printing and Packaging, Navi Mumbai, was outstanding. She showed a special zeal for package designing. It was reflected in the project she undertook to develop a model to estimate the compression strength of a CFB box; theoretically based on the attributes of the linerboard and fluting medium used and thereby determining the stackability. She completed the project in one year at Kraft Foods formerly Cadbury India. Her responsibility was to conduct box compression test, edgewise compression test and ring crush test and also to study the various factors affecting the stacking strength of a CFB container.
Besides her project, she has won a third prize in national level inter-college technical paper presentation on Six Sigma during the Versatalia festival in 2011 at PVG’s COET College, Pune. She has also won the second prize in a technical paper presentation during Impressions 2011, the annual festival of SIES College, Nerul. The achievements of Fehmida Shaikh have made her a worthy winner of the PrintWeek India Student of the Year Award.
Commended
Dattatray Jagade (PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology, Pune)
Ganesh Hagawane (PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology, Pune)
Pooja Mayekar (SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai)