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dealing with printers for 70 years, in some cases the same print businesses, businesses owned by the current owners' parents and grandparents. Trust is earned over time.”
As for technology, Currie Group has shown time and again that it
has been able to identify and back the most appropriate solutions to take ANZ print businesses forward, whether that was Shinohara in the 1970s, Horizon in the 1980s, HP Indigo 20 years ago, ABG ten years ago, Scodix and Omet in recent years, and most recently of all, EFI.
The third core is the IP at Currie Group, as Mesaros calls it, the deep industry knowledge. He says, “We have people that have been serving printers for years, decades. They understand we have to keep moving forward, they understand new developments are beneficial, and they bring irreplaceable experience.
“My job is to build on those core strengths, and to continually fill our corridors with the brightest people, while shaping the business to meet modern demands.”
Today, Currie Group deals with some of the biggest multi-national players in the industry, alongside home-grown success stories. Mesaros says, “We want to create the best experience for customers of all shapes and sizes and we’ll continue evolving our go-to-market model to best fit.
That modernisation of Currie Group is already well underway, with the new EFI partnership and entry into the sign and display marketplace, the scaling up of the 3D business and a new location for their Sydney office, and a soon to be launched new-look website.
While the “change is here to stay slogan” may be from the textbooks of business schools, for Mesaros change has to be meaningful from the customers point of view, He says, “Don't change for change’s sake, only if a customer sees the benefit. We
are constantly seeking well rounded feedback for continual improvement.
His years in HP driving the restructure of the business has given Mesaros the skillset necessary to implement modernisation properly.
Moving forward: Rob Mesaros, CEO, Currie Group
The corporate landscape is littered with brands that did not recognise the need for change, Nokia and Ericsson being two prime examples of market leading companies that were simply left behind. And we all know others in the printing industry.
It is remarkable what can be achieved if a mind is put to it. As the printing industry and the successful businesses within it morph before our eyes, the challenge for all of us
is to recognise the need to change, identify the way to change, and then implement that change. As Mesaros says, “We've got to make sure that we stay relevant.”
Throughout its 70 years in the industry, Currie Group has been at the core of the local print industry, but as they say in financial ads, past performance is no indication of future success. True to form though it seems David Currie saw the way ahead, and in bringing in Mesaros he has given the company the catalyst to keep moving forward to serve
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