Raveendra Joshi from United Multicolour Printers elected as new president for AIFMP.
Photo: AIFMP
A new team of office bearers of the All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) for the year 2022-23 were elected at the 69th annual general body meeting held on 24 September 2022 in Kochi.
Raveendra Joshi of United Multicolour Printers Pune has been elected as its president for the year 2022-23. He takes charge of the apex body of 2.5 lakh printers, which employs around 15 lakh people directly and 10 lakh indirectly, from 1 October 2022.
Established in the year 1953, AIFMPdraws its strength from 82 regional associations spread all over the country.
The other officebearers are – Raghabendra N Dutta Baruah of Seven Stars Publications as general secretary, Nitin Narula of Colourbar Communications as vice-president (north), K Rajendran of Vignesh Offset as treasurer, Anant Vishwanath Joshi of Sahitya Mudranalaya as vice-president (west), Rahul Mahajan of Narendera Publishing House as joint secretary, Bidyut Ranjan Nag of Nag Offset as vice-president (east), and K Kumarasamy of Kumaraswamy Printing Pressis vice-president (south).
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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