Energi Print buys Central Coast Printing

--> Long established Central Coast Printing (CCP) has found its white knight and been bought out of administration by Victorian company Energi Print, in a move which marks the first stage in Energi's interstate expansion plans.

CCP will be rebranded as Energi Print NSW, and will be re-equipped within two years. Virtually all of the 70 former staff at CCP have been re-employed with previous owner Noel Vidler, his wife Anne and daughter Alison all now part of the Energi Print team.

Haydn Brehenv, joint managing director of Energi Print says, "We had been looking for a high quality printer in NSW. This purchase will enable Energi Print to better service our existing New South Wales based customers and to continue to grow the business on the central coast."

Energi Print was founded ten years ago and is a specialist UV printer - it is the country's biggest printer of magazine covers, with most of the industry's major publishers on its client list. It is also a waterless and lenticular printing pioneer. It went through an mbo two years ago, with Haydn Breheny and Graeme Lidgerwood now owning the company.

Brehenv says, "Consolidation is the way forward for print in this country, there are just too many printers and too many presses. Consolidation enables costs to decrease."

Energi Print intends to build on the purchase of Central Coast Printing in the future. Brehenv says, "Blue Star and Geon have shown that through consolidation business can succeed, they have shown the way."

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