manroland AG - Personnel: new managing director at manroland India

Anil Bhatia (47) is looking forward to bringing new momentum to increasing manroland’s growth in India. He will be taking over as managing director of this manroland Market Organization starting in September 2010, as the successor of Raj Nargis, who is going into retirement.

The new managing director Anil Bhatia has more than 25 years of international experience in the marketing and sales of investment goods. Mr. Bhatia studied Engineering and also completed a postgraduate degree in Business Administration. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Anil Bhatia says: “My new team and I want to continue manroland’s successful history in India. This is why we will be offering our customers the exact products and services they need to prosper in a competitive field that is oriented towards growth. We stand by our customers as a professional partner to assist them throughout the entire service life of their presses. I am truly looking forward to this new challenge.” manroland is present in the Indian market since decades. In 2007 manroland opened its own subsidiary in India with headquarters in New Delhi and offices in Mumbai and Chennai.

The Indian market has been booming over the past few years. The government has been fighting against illiteracy for the past ten years and the success of this is evident. Approximately 100 million Indians have learned to read and write in this period and the literacy rate has increased to almost 60 percent today. In particular, the printing industry in India is profiting from this development, as new newspapers are brought out almost daily, increasing the demand for print products and the presses they are published on.

manroland AG is the world’s second largest printing systems manufacturer and the world’s market leader in web offset. The group with its production sites in Offenbach, Augsburg, and Plauen employs almost 8,000 people and has annual sales of some Euro 1,7 billion with an export share of approximately 80 percent (fiscal year 2008).

Webfed and sheetfed offset presses provide tailor-made solutions for publishing, commercial, and packaging printing – from brochures to newspapers with circulations running into the millions. A worldwide network of about 100 sales and service centers markets manroland’s products as well as process compliant system components and pressroom products.

Web offset presses for newspapers and high-quality commercial printing of brochures, catalogs, magazines, supplements, and books are manufactured at the Augsburg site (founded 1845). manroland’s Plauen site (founded 1896) is renowned for newspaper presses and paper supply systems. The sheetfed press product range built in Offenbach (founded 1871) comprises system families in small, medium, large, and extra-large formats for commercial printing, posters, books and packaging. Some models are available with the revolutionary direct drive system.

manroland is designing, planning, building, equipping, and commissioning sheetfed and web offset printing plants – from prepress through printing right up to finishing and offers added value with PRINTVALUE. manroland is a provider of customized 24/7 service and maintenance packages plus integrated services and training measures (printservices). The portfolio includes a certified range of pressroom products (printcom) as well as software products and workflow management systems (printnet). The group provides consultancy services covering all aspects of investment and building planning, organization, management, systems engineering and process optimization (printadvice).