SIES Graduate School of Technology in Nerul, on 3 April, will host the fourth round of Seekho Aur Samjho. According to Rushikesh Aravkar of PrintWeek India, the session in Hindi will cover “key aspects of paper terminology, its correct usage and applications.”
Gautham Pai, promoter and group managing director of The Manipal Group has become the youngest recipient of Mumbai Mudrak Sangh(MMS)’s Lifetime Achievement Award when he was felicitated by Subhash Desai, minister for industries Maharashtra at MMS Printer’s day celebration on 3 March 2015 at Garware Club House, Mumbai.
The 12th Paperex is scheduled to be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on 1-4 November 2015. With more than 500 leading exhibitors from over 40 countries expected to be a part of the four-day event.
Gautham Pai, promoter and group managing director of The Manipal Group has become the youngest recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Mumbai Mudrak Sangh (MMS) when he will be felicitated by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis at MMS Printer’s Day celebration on 3 March 2015 at Garware Club House, Mumbai. Subhash Desai, Minister for Industries Maharashtra will also grace the occasion.
Kyoorius, a division of Transasia Fine Paper, in association with D&AD, has revealed the jury for the 2015 Advertising & Digital Awards.
Xerox unveiled the Rialto 900 inkjet press at Hunkeler Innovationdays, which was hosted in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Canon India (Hall 7/Stall D-14) is showcasing its range of light production print solutions for the range of its commercial and wide-format printing segments, along with samples printed on their DreamLabo series at PrintPack.
Over 400 exhibitors and a footfall of 85,148, PrintPack India has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations.
Sergusa Solutions, sister concern of SLKCG is displaying box making machine, MIS solutions and inspection systems from Fuchu Shiko (Japan), Solprint (UK) and Beijing Daheng Image Vision (China) respectively.
The biggest Indian print tradeshow of the year, PrintPack India 2015, was inaugurated by plethora of Indian and international print luminaries at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida.
Paints and coatings maker AkzoNobel India have reported an 87.85% jump in net profit, which stood at Rs 50.74-crore for the third quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
Gujarat printing industry players are looking to provide ‘On demand Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)’ in partnership with the state government. This is an attempt to create skill sets for workers in the fast-growing, yet largely unorganised printing industry.
PrintWeek India is the official media partner for PrintPack India 2015 (11-15 February 2015), one of the biggest print shows in India. As the exclusive partner, PrintWeek India will publish a Newspaper on all the five days of the exhibition.
13 year old Shubham Banerjee is probably one of the youngest entrepreneur in the world. He recently started Braigo Labs, a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired.
PrintWeek India which is the Official Media Partner for PrintPack India 2015 (11-15 February 2015), one of the biggest print shows in India, will produce a 32-page newspaper.
Kyoorius, in partnership with D&AD, has announced new categories and pricing for the 2015 Kyoorius Advertising & Digital Awards.
The ninth edition of In-Store Asia Expo will see major retail merchandising solution providers showcasing their latest retail designs and solutions at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (Hall 6), Mumbai on 5-7 February 2015.
Canon has announced two more installation of its ImagePress C800, the kit which Canon, at the time of its launch in September last year, had claimed is designed to make print firms money.
After over 19 years with Adobe Systems, Naresh Gupta, managing director of Adobe India will step down in March to start a venture of his own and pursue his passion for entrepreneurship in financial markets.
The three-day long 36th edition of Media Expo opened its doors to visitors with an opening ceremony which in included the traditional lighting of the lamp at Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai today.
All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) is all set to organise their annual event ‘Romancing Print’ with the theme of ‘21st Century Printing’ on 24-25 February, 2015 in Hissar (165 kms from Delhi). This year’s show will be organised in collaboration with the Department of Printing Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUS&T) at Hisar in Haryana. As Kamal Chopra, chairperson of the show said, "The aim of the show is to educate th
From Marquez's magical realism epic to India's master storytellers Paul Zacharia and Sankaran Kutty Pottekkatt, from ancient Chinese military treatise to Khushwant Singh and Rajdeep Sardesai's candid account of public personalities who shaped modern India, the print industry pick their favourite reads of 2014. Click here to see if your favourite reads are in this list of 25 books.
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Ross Process Equipment will be moving into a state-of-the-art 20,000- square foot facility located in the Chakan MIDC industrial area in March 2015. The new site sits on a 2.5-acre land large enough to accommodate further expansions that could double the initial plant space.
Kochi-based Five Star Offset has entered the packaging space by acquiring Bobst’s Novacut 106E die-cutter and Visionfold 80 folder gluer. The acquisition was officially announced during Print Miracle 2014 in Kochi.
Media Expo 2015 is scheduled to be held on 16–18 January 2015 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. The organisers of the show are expecting a robust visitor turnout thanks to increased advertising budgets propelled by an rejuvenated economy.
The second edition of Fespa Eurasia 2014, which took place 4-7 December 2014 in Istanbul, received over 8,600 unique individuals attending the event, a 30% increase in attendance numbers compared to last year’s show.
The third largest consumer electronic imaging fair in the world, Consumer Electronic Imaging Fair 2015 is set to be held at New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan from 8-11 January 2015. About 30% of the stalls at the show are expected to be occupied by photo album specialists and print vendors.
The PrintWeek India Directory 2015, a 500-page pocket-sized directory with 1600 company listings, will be distributed nationwide to the database of PrintWeek India in January 2015.
A blue-leather journal, in which India’s Renaissance Man - Rabindranath Tagore - used to pen poetry, calculations and introspections on art between 1889-1904 went under the hammer for a whopping sum of Rs 1.7 crore at the Christie's auction in Mumbai. "It's likely to be the highest sum paid for a manuscript at an auction in India," said Sonal Singh, head of Christie's Mumbai office.
Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge is set to complete its 1000th week in theatres this December and to commemorate this unique landmark, Yashraj Films have roped in Ahmedabad-based Marvel Art Gallery to produce limited edition serigraphs inspired by the Shahrukh Khan and Kajal starrer.
FCB Ulka is reaping the benefits of upgrading to Konica Minolta’s Bizhub C8000, which they acquired last year. The digital press has provided increased versatility and improved quality according to Hemant Randive, general manager - production services, FCB Ulka.
Mihir Joshi looks at the biggest public limited packaging firms in India and finds the latest trends that emerge from financial figures of the top 21 packaging firms.
CIAL Trade Fair and Exhibition Centre, Nedumbassery in Kerala will host Print Miracle Expo 2014, a trade exhibition for printing industry between 12 to 14 December 2014.
Three Indian entries are a part of 197 shortlists announced for the The Menu Innovation Network's Menu Innovation and Development Awards (MIDAS) 2014.
IPAMA’s PrintPack 2015 which is planning on attracting at least one lakh visitors have released a revised list of confirmed exhibitors. The new list of exhibitors has a total of 290 confirmed exhibitors. The organisers are expecting to rope in 500 exhibitors till the show officially kicks off in February.
After commemorating Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s 139th birth anniversary as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, the government is now planning a large scale reprinting of three biographies of Patel in order to propogate authentic information about the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India.
In its series of Print Yatras, We The Production People (WTPP), a club of print production professionals in association with PrintWeek India, will visit the photo album specialist, Mazda Imaging in Mahalaxmi, on 19 November 2014.
The 23rd New Delhi World Book Fair 2015 is scheduled from 14-22 February 2015 in New Delhi. The show which will be held in Hall 1, 6, 7(A-E), 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12A and 14 at Pragati Maidan is being organised by National Book Trust(NBT), India and co-organised by India Trade Promotion Organisation(ITPO).
The third edition of Paper+, the India paper show, will be held at the Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai during 7-9 November 2014. Paper+ 2014 is the regional extension of ‘Paperex’, the world’s largest exhibition on paper, pulp and allied industries.
The seventh edition of Labelexpo India ended today, 1 November, with a host of installations stories filtering in. The four-day show aimed at label, packaging and general printers, brand owners and label and packaging designers, saw the biggest Indian and international manufacturers who exhibited their latest technology at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 29 October - 1 November 2014.
Royal Coat, Prati’s Indian representatives have announced the forthcoming installations of two Prati inspection systems on the last day of Labelexpo India 2014. Avery Dennison’s Knowledge Centre (Bengaluru) has acquired Sun Classic TE330 full servo slitter-rewinder. The second inspection system, Prati’s Saturn BiDi will be installed at Sel Jegat who are based out of Sivakasi, this will be the first Saturn BiDi in India.
Dow Corning has unveiled its new high-performance Syl-Off release system at Labelexpo India 2014. The new system combines Dow Corning’s industry-leading Syl-Off SL 35 release modifier and new Syl-Off SL 411 Coating to help customers optimize quality control and cost-effective manufacturing. Apart from the release system Dow Corning are also showcasing their extensive Sly-Off product range. The company is also featuring its full line of extreme-performance labeling technologies, including p
At Labelexpo 2014, TechNova Imaging Systems is showcasing Phoenix 4.0, the latest version of Canada-based Tilia Labs’ imposition software for folding cartons, labels, cards, signage and POP. The latest version of the software has been designed with inputs from the TechNova team in order to simplify its operations and provide optimum ease of use.
Labelexpo and HP Indigo co-hosted the Brand Innovation Summit an exclusive invitation-only session for some of the top brand owners. The summit looked at the unique demographic and cultural barriers that plague an Indian brand owner and attempted to find innovative solutions to these challenges.
The Inkmaker Dispensing System team are using the Labelexpo India 2014 platform to informing their prospective customer of the salient features of their range of dispensing systems, including HA650, Piccolo and Croma. Inkmaker are making inroads into the Indian market with their range of dispensing systems.
The Indo-German joint venture BST Sayona, one of the leaders in the web inspection systems market, is exhibiting its butt splicer technology with the Splicemaster along with Shark LEX 1000 (Defect inspection system) and Powerscope (Video inspection system).
Pattison takes top Maxus role from Vikram Sakhuja
Bengaluru-based textile printing specialists Quenby Transfers India claims the PrintWeek India Company of the Year for 2014 at a glittering ceremony that celebrated power of Indian print in Mumbai.
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Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi will be the chief guest at the sixth edition of PrintWeek India Awards Night on Monday, 6 October 2014 at the Grand Hyatt, Santacruz in Mumbai. The evening, as in the past five editions will have a formal sit-down dinner followed by a dignified round of entertainment.
Hindustan Unilever (HUL) as part of a marketing campaign for its oral care brand Pepsodent tied up with around 48 bhelpuri vendors in Mumbai, asking them to wrap their popular roadside snack in leaflets of Pepsodent's campaign about daily dental hygiene.
Kyoorius in association with D&AD, announced the winners of the 2014 Kyoorius Design Awards at the awards night at the Grand Hyatt in Goa. A total of 29 Elephants were awarded of which 27 were Blue Elephants and 2 were Black Elephants, awarded to outstanding work that cut across categories, both in terms of concept and execution, which the judges deemed to be exceptional across all the work entered.
Over the last decade, paper and paperboard manufacturers in India have expanded and tackled challenges thrown at them by a receding global economy. As the markets recover, the industry is primed to take a bigger bite of the market. Words: Dibyakumar Sarma and Mihir Joshi
SinoCorrugated – IndiaCorr Expo is taking place on 14-16 October 2014 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. IndiaCorr Expo is one the largest shows for the corrugated packaging industry in India. India folding carton exhibition, Paper zone and ICCMA Congress are all scheduled to be organised simultaneously with the show.
PrintWeek India spoke to Saumitra Prasad, chief marketing officer, Kokuyo Camlin, to understand what is transpiring in the commercial packaging sector in India.
HUL to develop categories in the top villages
The ninth edition of Kyoorius Designyatra will be held in Goa from 11- 13 September 2014. The theme of this year’s conference is 'What if?'. Rajesh Kejriwal of Kyoorius, who organises one of India’s foremost design conference - Designyatra and publishes the Kyoorius Communications magazine speaks to PrintWeek India and emphasises on the importance for a platform for discussion and why the designing community in India is on the verge of tectonic shift.
Drupa is set to renew its long-term cooperation with the Media Mundo industrial action group. As in 2011 and 2012, Drupa will partner with Media Mundo Congress on 17-18 November 2014 in Düsseldorf. This year, the congress’ motto is ‘Rethink sustainability – economic motivation for sustainable media production’.
Photokina 2014 will be held at Koelnmesse Exhibition Centre, Cologne, Germany on 16-21 September 2014.
Dentsu Aegis Network acquires majority stakes in Milestone Brandcom
Carat India bags media duties of GM, Nokia, Microsoft.
IPAMA’s PrintPack 2015 which is planning on attracting at least one lakh visitors have released a list of confirmed exhibitors. 226 exhibitors have already registered for PrintPack 2015 will be hosted from 11-15 February at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida.
HSBC Premier opt for L&K Saatchi & Saatchi
Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research are inviting electronic tender from paper mills having minimum production capacity of 30,000 M.T. per annum, manufacturing paper from virgin pulp.
The ninth edition of Kyoorius Designyatra will be held in Goa from 11- 13 September 2014. The theme of this year’s conference is 'What if?'.
Print industry across the globe is considered to be an ‘all business, no play' industry. PrintWeek India is trying to breathe some fun in to the status quo with its new Twitter handle FunWithPrint.
InterPrint Expo India, which is being organised with the support of 34 regional associations has sold out 70% of the available exhibitor’s space. The show is scheduled to be held in Ludhiana between 10-13 October 2014. The decision to organise InterPrint Expo at Ludhiana was taken considering constant demands of the printers of the region (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Chandigarh).
Sivakasi Master Printers’ Association (SMPA) is organising a day long management seminar ‘Enrich Your Attitude’ at SMPA Hall in Sivakasi on 18 July 2014. The seminar which is being held on the first day of the Sivakasi Printex 2014 is divided in to four sessions and will include six speakers who will shed light on varied aspects concerning the print industry.
PrintWeek India collates all the top stories that have made headlines a day after the new Modi government presented their first budget. Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley reduced customs duty on several products, but also hiked excise duties on other products. While those who were expecting and calling for a tough, non-populist Budget, were left disappointed.
Amul advertisements are iconic images of modern India. They more often than not are able to get the pulse of the nation with humourous puns on current events from all walks of life. “In principle my writer Manish Jhaveri and I who collaborate every morning, decide what is the key element of the FIFA we'd like to focus on every day. Say, yesterday's topical on the goalies. Or the previous day on Robben's fake dive. Manish then goes off and writes various optional lines looking at the issue
Amul advertisements are iconic images of modern India. They more often than not are able to get the pulse of the nation with humourous puns on current events from all walks of life. “In principle my writer Manish Jhaveri and I who colloborate every morning, decide what is the key element of the FIFA we'd like to focus on every day. Say, yesterday's topical on the goalies. Or the previous day on Robben's fake dive. Manish then goes off and writes various optional lines looking at the
Domino Printech India (Domino India) had received notification from the Indian tax authorities of unpaid excise duty for its inks (including penalties and interest charges) in 2012.
The 12th Screen Print India is scheduled to be held at The International Centre, Goa between 18-21 September 2014. Screen Print India, an exhibition focusing on the screen, digital and textile printing industry in India has been endorsed by 12 industry associations from across India and the globe.
26 Indian entries for outdoor and press categories have been shortlisted at Cannes Lions 2014. With 20 entries Outdoor has the highest number of Indian shortlists. McCann led the way with 12 shortlists. Six of the shortlists are for work on Big Babol, while the remaining shortlisted entries are for Premier Tissues.
Offset Printers' Association (OPA) will be organising InterPrint Expo 2014 at Kumra Palace, Ludhiana on 10-13 October 2014. The decision to organise InterPrint Expo at Ludhiana was taken considering constant demands of the printers of the region (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Chandigarh).
India is the sixth largest book printing market in the world, with close to 90,000 publishing firms. The Indian publishing industry is worth Rs 12,000-14,000-crore. PrintWeek India gives you a peek in to the bestselling fiction and non-fiction books that are trending in the country and the printers who guarantee the reading experience. Words and Photographs: Mihir Joshi
The first Kyoorius Design and Advertising Awards in Mumbai was a grand affair with close to 1000 advertising and design industry’s dignitaries in attendance as the best in Indian advertising and design were awarded with 37 Blue Elephants and 4 Black Elephants.
Campaign Asia-Pacific in collaboration with Nielsen has published an exclusive 'Asia's Top 1000 Brands' research for the year 2014. Samsung was numero uno in 10 of the 13 markets surveyed (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines). Sony came top in Taiwan and Vietnam as well as its home market Japan. Sony regained its second position, which it had conceded to Apple in last year’s survey. The annually conducted comprehensive res
Packplus’ 2014 edition is set to open its door for the members of the graphic art industry. After a gap of two years, the four-day Packplus 2014 will be held at Pragati Maidan and is slated for 11-14 June, 2014. Packplus 2012 and 2013 were held at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida.
The fifth All in Print China or China International Exhibition for All Printing Technology & Equipment will be organised on 14-17 November 2014 by Printing Technology Association of China, China Academy of Printing Technology, and Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) under the approval by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China.
Kyoorius, a division of Transasia Fine Paper, in association with D&AD, will announce the winners of the 2014 Kyoorius Advertising and Digital Awards at an awards ceremony on 12th June at NSCI Indoor Stadium in Mumbai.
The Indian packaging industry is estimated to be worth Rs 1,17,000 crore and India is the sixth biggest packaging market in the world. The top 22 packaging firms in India recorded a total combined revenue of Rs 30,536.60 crore. Here is a look at the biggest packaging firms in India and how they fared in the last financial year.
At the recently concluded Goafest 2014, JWT India took home 40 metals, the most for an agency at this year’s competition.
India is home to 1.2-crore visually impaired people of which 56 lakh are literate. Even with such a sizeable visually impaired academic textbooks, audio books and the odd newspaper in Hindi and Marathi are the few resources for visually impaired people.
Kerala Master Printers Association (KMPA) will host a knowledge sharing roundtable on 19 May 2014 at KMPA’s Conference Hall, Near Deshabhimani Junction, Kaloor, Kochi. The roundtable will be attended by all major players in the Kerala print industry.
Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book and media fair in the world - with around 7500 exhibitors from over 110 countries, will be introducing new show infrastructure from 2015 in order to enhance visitors and exhibitors experience at the show.
Delhi Printers’ Association held its annual elections for the posts of eight office bearers and 20 executive committee members on 27 April 2014. They had received 34 nomination papers for the 28 posts which were up for grabs.
Blue Lotus Communications public relations agency of Comniscient Group was recognised by the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI)’s Kolkata chapter, for achieving excellence in government and corporate public relations with the coveted National PR Day Award on 21 April 2014.
ASCI’s upholds complaints against 10 print advertisers
Today is World Book and Copyright Day, an annual event on 23 April, organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. 23 April is often stated as the "probable anniversary" of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Interestingly, 23 April is also the birth anniversary of Shakespeare
Gajanan Bhat of the University of Tennessee will be recipient of the 2014 Tappi Nonwovens Engineers and Technologists (NET) division technical award and Mark Hollingsworth prize.
With Indian Premier League’s seventh season about to start in five days time, the teams have started bombarding the cricket crazy country of ours with wave after wave of media blitz in order to attract as many eyeballs as possible. Delhi Daredevils, in an attempt to redefine its under-performing brand image, has opted for a complete overhaul.
The 43rd London Book Fair opened yesterday at the Earls Court in London, the three-day event is attracting lots of visitors to explore their new books and get involved in various cultural programs.
As the current academic year ends, appropriate state and central government agencies have already started logistical preparation for the next academic year.
April Fools’ Day is an old custom celebrated every year on the first day of April. It is celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other, both the jokes and their victims being known as "April fools".
Media Research Users Council Board and Readership Survey Council of India’s managing committee met in Mumbai on 31 March 2014 to discuss the preliminary findings of the sub-committee appointed by them to assess the Indian Readership Study 2013.
Goafest organising committee today released the first list of speakers for Goafest 2014 Knowledge Seminars to be held on 29-31May 2014.
Two persons, who were indulging in piracy of books belonging to prominent publishers like Penguin, Tata McGraw Hill, Simson & Schuster, were arrested by Central Crime Station (CCS) officials on Saturday.
Vinsak, provider of extensive range of solutions for printing and packaging industry and its partners which include Busch, CMC, ESS Technology and Vacuumatic will showcase their products at the 1st E-commerce arena at Ipex 2014 between 24-29 March 2014.