Partners
International Printing Network
Global business is fast becoming the standard for successful
organisations and the IPN, the world's foremost global
partnership of independent leading edge companies in the
printing, visual communications and graphic art industry
are helping their customers to take advantage of the
opportunities that exist within this global economy.
Since the early 1990's, IPN companies have met together
more than 40 times and have made the significant
investment in time, technology and money to help build
the unique and close working relationships needed
develop the trust and friendship that enables truly
successful local global business.
The reason why many of the world's leading organisations
choose to work with the IPN is simply because they have
discovered that the IPN with it's tried and tested
network is one of the most cost effective and quickest
routes to market.
Vital Statistics:
Over 185 locations around the world
Personal commitment and participation of 94 CEO's and
Senior Managers
In excess of $2 billion turnover
15 years experience of working together
Representing more than 11,500 skilled crafts people
and staff
Usage of nearly 300,000 tonnes of paper annually
740 digital colour and 170 black on white major
production machines
More than 300 colour lithographic presses
420 other major production machines
The worlds most comprehensive pool of experience from
one group
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Senior Executives of over 40 IPN member companies meet Ursula Burns, newly appointed President of Xerox at the Spring 2007 meeting in Rochester NY.
Roger.P.Gimbel Chairman of the IPN presents Graham Bromley with Hobbs IPN membership certificate during the autumn 2006 meeting in Las Vegas NV
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The Aim of the IPN
The aims of the IPN have always been clear: To provide a
truly unique service where clients have access to a
worldwide solution for the distribution of their visual
and printed communications using people that care and
that are both local to where the business originates and
to where it is finally needed.
Those companies that use and have come to rely on the
IPN, are continually amazed at what an organization that
depends upon relationships and friendships can achieve
compared to one that purely has a directory of
participants. To them the term your global friends is
not an empty promise.
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Hobbs the Printers Ltd in the IPN
We were first invited to join this elite and prestigious
organisation in 2005. David Hobbs made a presentation to
all of the other members during the Autumn 2005 meeting
hosted by HP at their European Headquarters in Maastricht.
We were confirmed as full members of the organisation in
the autumn of 2006 as we had demonstrated our commitment
to the organisation through regular contribution to and
attendance of the global meetings. We had also been
trading successfully with partners in the USA.
The primary reasons we joined the IPN were two fold;
firstly we wanted to be able to bring the benefits of
this global distribute and print organisation to all of
our clients. The ability to print the same or different
versions of the same product to the same standard
simultaneously around the world is a growing need in the
markets we serve. We also believe that the impact of
shipping products around the world, both environmentally
and economically will become a bigger and bigger issue
in the near future. The second reason we wanted to be
part of the IPN is to access and share knowledge and
ideas with this inspirational group of professionals who
work in a wide variety of markets. The application of
technology is simply stunning and the willingness to
share this with like minded partners brings added value
on a scale that is hard to imagine. We as a company
benefit from this knowledge and resource and so do our
customers.
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