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  Heidelberg gets it! Most companies talk about digital marketing, but how many do something about it that actually leverages their brand and domain knowledge? Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Heidelberg was still in the middle, or should I says in the mature phase of its restructuring, which is essentially based on the decline of commercial offset printing in the past 15 years and the shift to digital in that segment – although packaging continues to grow for sheetfed multicolor offset presses.  At the same time, Heidelberg's human resource costs in Europe were (and probably still are) too high. So its current chief executive officer, Rainer Hundsdorfer , has continued to downsize and simplify the company. By divesting various ventures such as the B1 digital press and divisions (such as Gallus, which has come back since the potential investor didn't pay up), and even real estate in its home city and home plant, he brought the company back to the edge of viability. Moreover, the...

Printing Expo. online has, in a short time, established itself as an extremely valuable communications channel in the graphics art industry. Printing Expo.online and Inkish proudly announce a new partnership supporting the printing industry in numerous ways.  Inkish on upgrading Printing Expo.online Inkish will develop original content for the event. "Printing Expo.online has the same needs as any other physical or virtual event - relevant content," event organizer Wayne Beckett explains, and continues, "In the partnership, we have with Inkish, we will not only get content but content created specifically for our audience."  Inkish editor Morten B. Reitoft adds, "The pandemic is, by all means, changing the 'normal ,' and we have therefore decided to 'upgrade' Printing Expo.online to an event, on a level with all the physical events unfortunately canceled. This means that we will write, film, do social media with exhibitors, speakers, presen...

  Sahitya Akademi is virtually organizing Through My Window on Sunday, 19 September 2021 at 1700 hrs IST under its Webline Literature Series. Ranjit Hoskote, eminent English writer will deliver a talk on the life and works of Kunwar Narain, Hindi poet and fellow of Sahitya Akademi. Launched in 1993, in the Webline Literature series, an eminent writer presents his or her impression on the life and works of another eminent contemporary writer. Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, is the central institution for literary dialogue, publication, and promotion in the country and the only institution that undertakes literary activities in 24 Indian languages, including English. Over the 64 years of its existence, it has ceaselessly endeavored to promote good taste and healthy reading habits, to keep alive the intimate dialogue among the various linguistic and literary zones and groups through seminars, lectures, symposia, discussions, readings,  and performances, to...

  Rajkot-based Vinayak Offset plans to embark on a new multi-crore capital expenditure cycle for its packaging division in the 2022-23 financial year, Hemang Shah , managing director of Vinayak Offset, told Packaging South Asia . Planning to expand its carton printing for several years, it was delayed earlier by sluggish market conditions and then by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns over the past 17 months. “We wanted to go in for the new expansion phase in the 2019-20 financial year, but due to sluggish market conditions, we then decided to postpone all investment plans. Then in 2020-21, we were hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which continues till today. There has been a good recovery in the 2021-22 financial year, but we want the market conditions to stabilize before deciding on any investments. So we hope to decide in the next financial year,” Shah said. Vinayak Offset is among the leading print houses in the city of Rajkot in Gujarat in Western India. It is curren...