Business
Making impressions
Two of Bombay’s leading printers’ associations, the Bombay Master Printers Association and the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh, are headed by Fred Poonawala and Minoo Davar respectively. Poonawalla is president, Comart Lithographers Limited, pioneers of the prepress industry in India. Formed in the early 1930s, Comart has been synonymous with leadership in technology and top service quality.
(Above, from left): Khushru Patel and Aspi Forbes of JAK Printers accepting Printweek India award; (far left) Fred Poonawala; (l) Minoo Davar
Davar is director, printing business at Spenta Multimedia and has over 20 years’ experience. He is skilled in production and supply chain management. Spenta Multimedia is a proprietary firm established in 1995 by Maneck Davar who has 30 years’ experience in print journalism and publishing.
At the Printweek India Awards 2009 Comart Lithographers won the Creative Repro Company of the Year Award while JAK Printers were adjudged the Social Stationery Printer of the Year. They were among the eight Bombay printers who won recognition at the all-India level.
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