The Number Was 900 Press Makereadies a Month
After a brand brings three processes under one roof, what work is left for outside printers?
N Ranga Rao & Sons has brought platemaking, five-color printing and coating, and die-cutting together at one site in Mysore. The number to watch is not the roughly 800,000 sheets produced each month, but the roughly 900 press makereadies. What work remains outside a brand that has integrated its equipment?
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N Ranga Rao & Sons has consolidated three processes at one site. We will refer to the company below as NRRS. Its Mysore plant carries out roughly 900 press makereadies a month and produces about 800,000 sheets over the same period.
Arjun Ranga, the company’s CEO, said, “Repeatability is paramount in our operations”. The Cycle brand is exported to about 60 countries and reaches roughly 800,000 stores in India through approximately 10,000 distributors.…
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