ruud, wachten bij Xeikon wordt beloond.
Heb al heel wat jaren achter de rug ;)
Maar 1 ding blijft Xeikon doen: innoveren en nieuwe markten aanboren, waardoor ze elk jaar meer omzet en winst maken.
Naar mijn mening zou het aandeel op dit niveau al thuis horen zonder dat er sprake zou zijn van een eventuele overname.
Zelf denk ik dat die er wel gaat komen.(zie bovenstaande posting)
Om bovenstaande nog maar even te bevestigen de volgende nieuwsberichten van deze week:
17 June 2013
Labels in Motion: No experience, no problem
TORONTO—Manon Chin, chief operating officer at Labels in Motion, spoke June 12 at the Xeikon Café in Toronto about how he successfully entered the label business without any prior experience.
The Orlando, FL-based company is the in-house print shop of Xymogen, a nutritional supplement manufacturer. Chin convinced Xymogen to invest in a Xeikon 3500 to handle production of the company's customized labels for the nutraceutical market.
17 June 2013
Xeikon touts growth of packaging, labels
TORONTO—Colour digital presses are "great" for printing labels and packaging and the market is growing, said Bob Leahey, associate director at Infotrends.
The analyst spoke June 12, followed by a presentation by Labels in Motion's Manon Chin, at the Xeikon Café presented by Xeikon and distributor Canflexographics at the Toronto Hockey Hall of Fame.
Bob Leahey addresses the Xeikon Café crowd at the Hockey Hall of Fame
Leahey pointed to the success of Coca-Cola's "Share a Coke" campaign as an example of how brands can benefit from the capabilties of colour digital label and packaging (CDLP). The campaign, first launched 2011 in Australia and rolled out across Europe in May this year, featured personalized labels where the Coca-Cola logo was replaced by the most popular first-names found in each respective market.
Leahey said the job started with a flexo or gravure template, followed by over-printing done by a colour digital press. According to Leahey, it was the largest colour digital print job ever in consumer labels, totalling 800 million versioned labels in three months and requiring upwards of 15 presses. The campaign created a strong consumer reaction that left some store shelves in disarray, he said.
Aside from campaigns featuring personalization, markets that are good fits for CDLP include nutraceuticals, private labels and wines, which Leahey said lend themselves to short runs. As well, flexible packaging and carton work can flesh out a label printer's job load.
The analyst said the market for CDLP is growing because vendors are pushing. They want to be in industrial applications like labels because other traditional markets, like newspapers, are in decline, and also because brand owners want leaner manufacturing within more targeted markets. Because of this, "label converters want short-run tools, and digital is ideal," he said.
Companies also want printing that supports the growing trend of 1:1 marketing, and printers need a digital press to meet that need. Versioning is in demand with companies that want to reach multiple ethnic groups with labels in different languages. "Go to Europe and it's dozens of languages, sometimes even in one country," Leahey said.
Inkjet presses are "getting better" and are especially good for durable labels, Leahey noted. The technology is scalable and key companies are flying the inkjet flag. Also, the price for colour digital presses is relatively high in the hundreds of thousands. But, overall and especially in short-runs, colour digital is growing within more and more markets and it is important to educate brand owners about this trend and the technology's benefits, he said.