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Southern Impact launches new brand
The print industry has a new name out in the field with Southern Impact now the brand for what were Southern Colour, Intelligent Media, and Impact Digital, forming a powerhouse business operating under one brand. The company is based in its 7000sqm Mount Waverley building in Melbourne
The company says it has taken the depth of traditional offset printing of Southern Colour, added the rapid, digital print solutions of Impact Digital, with the personalised printing services of Intelligent Media. It then combined
these with tailored software solutions and its wide-reaching distribution, warehousing, kitting and logistics services,
joining them all together
to form Southern Impact – Australia’s newest, and what it says is its most committed, one-stop print business.
Southern Impact has been the parent company of the three brands since 2015, when Southern Colour and Impact Digital bought Intelligent Media. It launched OnPack
a year later. It then bought
the assets of Rooster IMC from Naresh Gulati when his business collapsed last year.
At the time, Southern managing director Rod Dawson said, “Southern Colour, Impact Digital and Intelligent Media will be branded and operational as Southern Impact by FY 20/21. The label and packaging business will also be on site, but
Southern Impact: Pictured outside the factory with the new branding are (l-r) Rod Mills, Adrienne Teague, and Rod Dawson
will remain branded as OnPack, as we continue the amazing progress this business has made since being launched in 2016.
“As in the past with our group, continued investment in technology and gaining operational efficiencies
will deliver a powerful manufacturing site for years to come. We believe that this is a great outcome for staff, customers and our suppliers.”
Southern said with a “new name, new signage, and new merchandise it’s been nice to launch our new brand identity and something positive in
2020. Can’t wait to share it with people in person and have you come and visit”.
Its digital labels and packaging business OnPack will retain its own identity, with Michael Nankervis remaining as its head.
The company consolidated four separate sites in Keysborough and Brunswick into the Mount Waverley premises, which it acquired when it bought Rooster IMC at the end of last year. It has also added wide format printing to its offset and digital capability, bringing it inhouse for the first time. 21
Brown switches to
Sappi from Ball & Doggett
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Ball & Doggett Group CEO Craig Brown has moved from the merchanting
side of the business to join paper manufacturer Sappi as its Australasian managing director, with Luke Wilkinson becoming CEO of Ball & Doggett Australia, and Richard Hislop promoted to new CEO New Zealand.
Brown succeeds John Walker at Sappi, who will retire at the end of the year. Brown began his tenure at the beginning
of October. Founded in South Africa, Sappi is the world’s sixth biggest papermaker – sales
last year were US$5.7bn, with mills located across Europe and North America.
In Australasia it sells both direct – to the heatset printers – and through merchants for coated stocks. Brown’s two biggest customers will now be Wilkinson at Ball & Doggett, and David Martin, CEO at former rival Spicers.
Brown told Print21, “It
was time for a change. It has been a great journey with Ball
Moving: Craig Brown is now Australasian MD at Sappi
& Doggett. I wanted a new challenge and am really pleased with the opportunity to take over from John Walker at Sappi.”
The two new CEOs at Ball
& Doggett, together with CFO Stephen McDonald, will report to Takahiro Miyata from parent JPP, who is assuming the role of managing director of Ball & Doggett Group.
Tony Bertrand, national marketing manager, will be reporting into Luke Wilkinson. Kathy Pangratis, national HR manager, will be reporting to Stephen McDonald. 21