APN Print New Zealand has received international and domestic recognition at recent awards events for its company-wide focus on quality and commitment to staff advancement awards events.
The Web Offset Association of America (WOA) Print Awards Competition has bestowed a first place in the produced using coldset printing, four-colour on uncoated stock (other than newsprint) category for the Swug Conference Newspaper and a third place in the special edition commemorative or self-promotion by coldset category for Element Magazine, both printed in June last year.
Dan Blackbourn, APN Print New Zealand general manager, says, “Given the scope of potential entries to the WOA competition, receiving those awards illustrates APN Print New Zealand is a printer of genuine quality on a global stage.”
Understood to annually attract over 400 entries from all over the world, the WOA Awards judges’ criteria includes registration; degree of difficulty; folding, binding or other finishing, if applicable; and overall craftsmanship of product.
Locally, APN Print New Zealand has found itself in the special position of having two employees named as finalists for the PrintNZ Apprentice of the Year Award: Michael Brown and Shane Baskerville. Coupled with these two nominees, the firm has once again become finalist in the company training award, which it won last year.
Blackbourn says it is rewarding to have his company’s commitment to both quality production and a team ethos acknowledged. He adds, “Both Shane and Michael would be very worthy recipients of Apprentice of the Year Award and we will eagerly await the result announced at the Pride In Print Conference being held in Wellington in May.”
