PrintWeek India Performance Awards 2014 winners

PrintWeek India Printing Company of the Year

Quenby Transfers India (Bengaluru)
Tel: +91 80 2218 7100 / info@quenbyindia.com

Quenby Transfers India has triumphed over competitions from previous winners Manipal Technologies, Pragati Offset and International Print-o-Pac to be crowned as PrintWeek India Company of the Year 2014, based on its financial performance over the last financial year and their samples, which impressed the jury with their quality and execution in textile printing. The company’s fixed asset has increased by 10.09%, while net current asset has increased by 138.29%, which was highest in the category. The overall net worth during this period also increased by 12.62% and fixed assets as a percentage of sales are also up by 0.70%, another yardstick where the company outperformed its competition. The company’s expenditure on staff also increased by 4.58%, the second highest in the category.

Quenby was incorporated at Leicestershire in the UK in 1993. Its India operations started in 2005 at Bengaluru, where it presently operates out of a 30,000sq/ft plant, which houses six lines automatic high-speed screen printing machines with modern digital dryers and 105 employees. The company specialises in producing photo-realistic heat transfer and information label for the garment industry, producing five-six million pieces mainly for the European market and catering to leading garment manufacturers in India, the UK, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Cambodia, Egypt, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. Quenby’s financial success is an indicator of print’s evolution. It is no longer limited to ink on paper, and the possibilities are truly endless.

Commended    
Brilliant Printers
Gautam Paper Udhyog
International Print-o-Pac
Manipal Technologies
Mudrika Labels
Pragati Offset
Replika Press
 

Green Printing Company of the Year

Repro India (Mumbai)
Tel: +91 22 7178 5000 / vijayjadhav@reproindialtd.com

Repro India has been unanimously chosen by the special adjudicators as the Green Printer of the Year. This newly constituted category recognises the need for going green, with the primary motivator behind this being savings on energy costs, social pressure and sustainability goals.
Repro recycles their waste or disposes it off as per the ISO 14001:2000 environmental management system standards, under which they are certified since 2010. Repro India is also the first Indian company to have certifications from both the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for Endorsement for Forest Certification (PEFC). It is one of the biggest book printers in the country that produces multiple product formats such as books, e-books and other interactive content. Since going public in 2006, Repro India has reported profits in every quarter. They have been awarded the CAPEXIL export award five times for being India’s leading books exporter.

Commended        
Jagran Prakashan
Lovely Offset Printers
Macromedia Digital Imaging
Manipal Technologies
Manipal Utility Packaging Solutions
Replika Press
The Hindu

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Post-Press Company of the Year

Replika Press (Kundli)
Tel:  +91 98 1025 4636 / sanandan@replikapress.com

Talking about Replika Press, Neil Bradford of Random House in UK said, “I have dealt with Replika for many years now and they have always been a committed, positive and professional organisation, very much setting the standards for book production and service within India.”
Replika is a book printing powerhouse which consumes paper stock of more than 8,500 metric tonnes per annum. They churn out 36,000 hard cover and 50,000 soft cover books per day on an average. Replika’s gross sales and profit before tax have increased by 25.84% and 30.68% compared to last year. The expenditure on staff has increased substantially by 28.85% which is the highest in the category. During this period, its fixed assets increased by 6.49%, and its net worth also jumped by 13.80%.

Commended        
A & M Enterprise
Brandmark Solutions
Gautam Paper Udhyog
International Print-o-Pac

Sponsored by 

Pre-Press Company of the Year

Creative Graphics (Noida)
Tel: +91 120 4537 650 / deepanshu@creativegraphics.net.in

and

Shilp Gravures (Ahmedabad)
Tel: +91 276 4286 323 / kmbhaskaran@shilpgravures.com

Creative Graphics and Shilp Gravures share the Pre-Press Company of the Year honours for their solid financial performances they returned for the year 2013-14.

Creative Graphics’ profit before tax has increased substantially by 301.67%, which was the highest in the category. Its return on capital employed and profit before tax as a percentage of sales also increased by 24.42% and 5.31% respectively, which were the highest in the category as well.
Creative Graphics is a Noida–based flexo trade house and has been in the industry for the last 12-years. It is a proprietorship firm involved in high-class flexo plate-processing. The company has an Esko CDI, theDupont Cyrel Digiflow exposure unit, alongwith the latest processing equipment from Schwan, Germany and catering to customers ranging from wide-web to narrow-web, corrugated and other segments of the printing industry from the entire length and breadth of India. Creative works 12-hours a day and caters more than 250 customers.

Shilp Gravures’ overall net worth during this financial year has jumped by 8.78% and its expenditure on staff and fixed assets were also up by 17.60% and 17.74% respectively. Shilp Gravures is India’s pioneer and undisputed leader in electro-mechanical engraving, with a substantial market share of the flexible packaging industry. The company approaches its work practices from the creative end and that is what distinguishes it from all the other gravure cylinder suppliers in the field.
 

Commended        
Diadeis Alia (Alia Premedia Services)
Honeycomb Creative Support

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SME Printing Company of the Year

PrintExpressions (Gurgaon)
Tel: +91 124 411 6969 / sukhvinder@printexpressions.net

PrintExpressions has won the SME Company of the Year for the second time. In 2011, PrintExpressions had won this Award in its earlier avatar as Small Printer of the Year. Established in 2008, in a short span of time, the Delhi-based firm has been able to go from strength to strength and can count on companies like Nestle, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Apollo Munich Health Insurance, Greenpeace, Hyundai and Havells among their clients.

The company houses two Heidelberg and one Komori offset presses, one Konica Minolta Bizhub Pro C6501 and a HP Latex L25500 for its wide-format requirements. PrintExpressions was established with a vision of becoming one of the top print firms in the country and its gross sales and profit before tax are proof that they are on the right path. These have increased by 40.68% and 27.38% respectively, compared to last year. Its net worth also increased by 17.52%, which was the highest rise in the category.

Commended   
Gautam Paper Udhyog
Mudrika Labels
Prabhat Printing Works

Student of the Year

Pranav Nikam (Pune Vidhyarthi Griha’s College of Engineering and Technology)
Sonal Karkhanis (SIES Graduate School of Technology)

For the first time in six editions, we have a tie for Student of the Year. Pranav Nikam of Pune Vidhyarthi Griha’s College of Engineering and Technology and Sonal Karkhanis of SIES Graduate School of Technology, academically and based on project submissions, outmatched their competition only to find themselves on par with each other. Apart from their academic performances, both our winners were equally impressive in their extra-curricular activities.

Sonal was the event coordinator for the Technical Paper Presentation at Impressions 2014 and won the Technical Paper Presentation at Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering’s Extemporia 2013.

Pranav was the general secretary of Circle of Printing Engineers for two years. He undertook a research project to study the influence of Rheological Parameters on Printability and to have a better understanding of the microstructure and interparticle attractions.

Pranav Nikam
Favourite Sports Team: Chelsea FC
Hobbies: Trekking and Photography
Books: I like to read biographies
Person who I admire: Steve Jobs
Dream job: R&D for the pharmaceutical industry

Sonal Karkhanis
Favourite Movie: The Conjuring
Favourite Book: A Song of Ice and Fire (Entire Series)
Favourite Music Artist: Disturbed
Person who I admire: My father
Dream job: R&D on new polymers