Flint Group Realigns Organization
March 6, 2009
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LUXEMBOURG—Flint Group has announced a customer-oriented organization structure aimed at enabling customers to have full access to Flint Group’s broad product portfolio through a single sales contact, supported by in-depth technical support. The company said this will align the organization to market segments and customer applications enabling Flint Group to provide advantages to customers through value, quality, and innovation while delivering enhanced benefits on a communication, technical expertize, service, and support level at a lower cost.
Product lines serving the Print Media Market for production of newspapers, inserts, magazines, catalogues, direct mail, stationery, forms, etc. have now been integrated to form the regionalized Print Media Divisions, Print Media Europe, and Print Media North America.
Commenting on the new strategic changes to the organization, Charles Knott, CEO of Flint Group said, "Our business units can now offer the full range of products and services demanded by the Print Media market comprising coldset inks, newspaper flexo inks, heatset inks, publication gravure inks, sheetfed inks as well as press room chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for all offset printing processes."
Charles Knott concluded, "We want to make doing business with us easier and more efficient for our Print Media customers by offering a main contact person at Flint Group to cover the total range of products and services for their business."
Dermot Healy, vice president of Day International Europe, has been named president, Print Media Europe, while Bill Miller, president, Inks Americas, now has the position president, Print Media North America. Dennis R. Wolters, president of Day International, announced that he will retire end of June. Until then, he will continue to support and advise the Flint Group Executive Management Team on further projects that were initiated with the re-organization.
"It became apparent soon after Day was acquired by Flint Group, that we could only provide the full benefit of the complementary product ranges to our customers if we were to bring the offset inks businesses, the printing blankets and press room chemicals businesses which serve the same markets, closer together," says Dennis Wolters. "In doing this it would also make dealing with us more efficient. We also have started to exploit the potential that exists in bringing the respective research and development activities and technical service teams closer together. We are committed to drive performance further beyond the point of improving each single product focusing on their interaction on the press to further optimize the printing process."
Product lines serving the Print Media Market for production of newspapers, inserts, magazines, catalogues, direct mail, stationery, forms, etc. have now been integrated to form the regionalized Print Media Divisions, Print Media Europe, and Print Media North America.
Commenting on the new strategic changes to the organization, Charles Knott, CEO of Flint Group said, "Our business units can now offer the full range of products and services demanded by the Print Media market comprising coldset inks, newspaper flexo inks, heatset inks, publication gravure inks, sheetfed inks as well as press room chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for all offset printing processes."
Charles Knott concluded, "We want to make doing business with us easier and more efficient for our Print Media customers by offering a main contact person at Flint Group to cover the total range of products and services for their business."
Dermot Healy, vice president of Day International Europe, has been named president, Print Media Europe, while Bill Miller, president, Inks Americas, now has the position president, Print Media North America. Dennis R. Wolters, president of Day International, announced that he will retire end of June. Until then, he will continue to support and advise the Flint Group Executive Management Team on further projects that were initiated with the re-organization.
"It became apparent soon after Day was acquired by Flint Group, that we could only provide the full benefit of the complementary product ranges to our customers if we were to bring the offset inks businesses, the printing blankets and press room chemicals businesses which serve the same markets, closer together," says Dennis Wolters. "In doing this it would also make dealing with us more efficient. We also have started to exploit the potential that exists in bringing the respective research and development activities and technical service teams closer together. We are committed to drive performance further beyond the point of improving each single product focusing on their interaction on the press to further optimize the printing process."
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