WARSAW, Poland, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- Changes Will Further Enhance Client Services and Capabilities at
Central Europe's Largest Commercial Printer
- Polish Operations to be Rebranded QuadWinkowski
To better serve magazine publishers, catalogers and retailers throughout
Poland and Europe, U.S.-based Quad/Graphics and Poland-based Winkowski have
augmented company leadership and committed to capital investments totaling 35
million USD (72 million PLN) at Winkowski.
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Further, now that Quad/Graphics has a majority ownership in Winkowski
(since December 2007), the company will be rebranded QuadWinkowski to reflect
the combined resources of the two companies.
Quad/Graphics and Winkowski have been business partners for 10 years and
are remarkably consistent in their approach to conducting business. They
share many similar values and practices, including maintaining close
relationships with clients and vendors. Company leadership will continue to
support the same values and practices.
"Our company always has been about building meaningful business
relationships, and that will continue with both clients and vendors," said
Tadeusz Winkowski, Founder of Winkowski. "We will remain consistent in our
approach to serving customers and working with vendors."
Added Joel Quadracci, President & CEO of Quad/Graphics: "Quad/Graphics
and Winkowski have enjoyed a successful partnership for a decade now and
we're building on that success. We are committed to strengthening operations
and our European presence for the benefit of clients."
New Leadership Appointments
New leadership appointments will augment existing company leadership, and
provide management and client service continuity.
Tadeusz Winkowski, who founded the printing company in 1998 and has
directed the company's rapid expansion to date, has been named Chairman of
the company's Supervisory Board. In this role, he will provide strategic
vision for ongoing corporate growth.
Tom Frankowski, a 29-year member of Quad/Graphics' U.S. manufacturing
operations, has been named QuadWinkowski President. In this role, Mr.
Frankowski will oversee all day-to-day operations of the company. He already
has been working with Winkowski for more than 1 year.
Tim Ohnmacht, a Quad/Graphics Sales executive with 14 years
print-industry experience, joins QuadWinkowski's Sales team as Vice President
of Sales & Marketing where he will have responsibility for European business
sales development. He will collaborate closely with recognized and
established Sales leaders Dariusz Tomczak and Anna Dlugaszewska, who remain
in their current roles as Vice President of Sales and International Sales
Director, respectively.
Chuck DuPont, a Quad/Graphics financial and business analyst, has been
named QuadWinkowski Vice President of Finance. In this role, Mr. DuPont will
draw on his 23 years of print-industry experience to oversee all aspects of
QuadWinkowski financial management.
QuadWinkowski's Management Board, which directs operations and business
strategy, will have strong representation from existing company leaders and
be augmented with some new leaders. Management Board members are:
-- Tom Frankowski, President
-- Tim Ohnmacht, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
-- Dariusz Tomczak, Vice President of Sales
-- Chuck DuPont, Vice President of Finance
-- Barbara Bornikowska, Vice President of Accounting
-- Andrzej Platek, Director of Facilities
-- Jakub Dylag, Plant Director for QuadWinkowski's Wyszkow plant
-- Tomasz Kedziora, Plant Director for QuadWinkowski's Pila plant
Capital Investments
Experienced in the challenges -- and opportunities -- of swift growth,
Quad/Graphics has been proactively sharing best practices in large-scale
manufacturing with Winkowski to better serve clients. Within the last year
alone, QuadWinkowski has automated press deliveries and binding equipment,
among other processes, at the company's plants in Wyszkow and Pila. The
company also has adopted a real-time scheduling program that manages all
client work, capacity and equipment, ensuring jobs are completed on time with
all critical components completed.
Now, QuadWinkowski is investing 35 million USD (72 million PLN) in new
equipment and facility upgrades. Over the next year, the company will enhance
product quality and overall productivity with the installation of numerous
press conveying, stacking and palletizing systems; multiple press cover
production systems; several polywrapping machines as well as expanding
value-added capabilities such as inline gluing in Press, and inline
labeling and card feeding, and ink jetting in Finishing.
"We are leading the future of print in Europe in terms of efficiency,
quality and customer service," Mr. Winkowski said. "Our geographic location
is an advantage, too. We export efficiently to Western and Central Europe and
are now even expanding into parts of Eastern Europe, including Russia and
Ukraine."
About QuadWinkowski
QuadWinkowski (http://www.winkowski.pl) is Central Europe's largest
commercial printer. The 10-year-old company has been affiliated with
Quad/Graphics since 1998 and provides advanced print-production services
including digital imaging, web offset and sheetfed printing, finishing and
distribution for a wide variety of clients including Edipresse, Agora,
Polityka, Burda, Egmont, Bonnier, Hachette Filipacchi, Marquard Media,
catalogs Orvis, Lego, IKEA HomeShopper, Tupperware, and Music & Memories; and
newspaper inserts/circulars for METRO AG, Auchan and E. Leclerc. It exports
nearly 40 percent of the work it produces on behalf of its clients.
QuadWinkowski employs more than 1,700 employees among print-production
facilities in Wyszkow and Pila, and its corporate headquarters in Warsaw.
Annual sales are approximately 600 million PLN (275 million USD).
About Quad/Graphics
Quad/Graphics (http://www.QG.com) is the largest privately held printer
of magazines, catalogs and other commercial products in the Western
Hemisphere, and the third-largest printer -- public or private -- in the
nation. Headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin (26 miles west of Milwaukee), the
company provides services ranging from front-end design and photography
through digital imaging, printing, finishing, mailing/distribution, and
data-driven marketing solutions such as data optimization and analytics. In
addition to QuadWinkowski in Poland, the company has print partnerships in
Argentina and Brazil. Annual sales are in excess of 2 billion USD (4.4
billion PLN). Worldwide employment is approximately 13,000 people.
Biographies of QuadWinkowski's Top Leaders
Tadeusz Winkowski
Chairman of Supervisory Board, QuadWinkowski
Mr. Winkowski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of QuadWinkowski,
founded his company in 1998 by merging Zaklady Graficzne in Pila and
Superkolor in Warsaw. At the same time, U.S.-based printer Quad/Graphics
became a partner in the business and, with additional investments, created
the largest printer in Central Europe.
Mr. Winkowski was recognized in 2005 when he was named Poland's
Entrepreneur of the Year by consulting firm Ernst & Young.
Mr. Winkowski's first experience in printing was during the 1980s with
the underground press when Poland was under oppressive martial law. Mr.
Winkowski was one of the top two people responsible for printing and
distributing the underground weekly magazine Tygodnik Mazowsze (Solidarity
Weekly). The magazine, which became the voice of the Solidarity movement,
served as a reliable source of information (in contrast to publications
controlled by the official press). With a circulation up to 80,000 copies, it
was the largest underground publication in Poland between 1982 and 1989.
Following the abolition of censorship in 1990, Mr. Winkowski became one
of four founders of Proszynski i S-ka, a magazine and book publishing
company. As Proszynski i S-ka grew, so did its need for a reliable printer.
With Mr. Winkowski's interest and background in printing, the company
invested in printer Zaklady Graficzne and, later, Superkolor SA before
launching Winkowski sp. z o.o. in 1998.
Mr. Winkowski studied philosophy at universities in Lublin and Warsaw,
Poland.
Tom Frankowski
President, QuadWinkowski
Mr. Frankowski is responsible for day-to-day operations of the company.
For the past year, he has been instrumental in accelerating the
introduction of best practices in workflow management, equipment
standardization and automation, and other manufacturing operations at
QuadWinkowski. Mr. Frankowski performs these same duties for Quad/Graphics in
the U.S. as Senior Vice President of Manufacturing -- a role he
simultaneously fulfills while also acting as President of QuadWinkowski.
Other executive roles in his 29 years with Quad/Graphics include Director
of Imaging Operations and Vice President of Imaging Operations.
Mr. Frankowski studied graphic arts management at Milwaukee (Wis.) Area
Technical College, and completed the Program for Management Development at
Harvard Business School.
Tim Ohnmacht
Vice President of Sales & Marketing, QuadWinkowski
Mr. Ohnmacht is responsible for European sales business development.
Previously, he served as Quad/Graphics' Vice President of Midwest Sales
for 6 years where he represented Quad/Graphics in the marketplace while
overseeing the business retention and development strategies in seven sales
offices.
Other positions in his 14 years with the company include managing all
sales business development activities and sales personnel at Sales offices in
Chicago and New York City, and serving as National Sales Director for Parcel
Direct, a parcel expediting company Quad/Graphics founded in 1998 and sold to
FedEx in 2004.
Mr. Ohnmacht was instrumental in establishing Quad/Graphics'
International Sales and Production Department in the mid-1990s. He researched
overseas joint-venture partners and introduced domestic clients to
Quad/Graphics' existing international partners in Argentina, Brazil and
Poland.
A graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., Mr. Ohnmacht holds
bachelor's degrees in economics and Spanish. He completed the Advanced
Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Chuck DuPont
Vice President of Finance, QuadWinkowski
Mr. DuPont is responsible for overall financial management of
QuadWinkowski's operations, including capital spending and long-range
business planning for accelerated growth on a global scale.
In his 23 years with Quad/Graphics, Mr. DuPont has served in a variety of
accounting, finance and business development roles, including but not limited
to Manager of Business Development for Quad/Graphics; Manager of Business
Development and Director of Finance for QuadTech, the company's R&D division;
and Chief Financial Officer for Openfirst, a direct mail communications
provider that Quad/Graphics acquired in July 2006 (now part of QuadDirect).
He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration - Accounting from
the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
Web site: http://www.qg.com
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