Kaitaia Printing.com Wins National Franchise of the Year

Kaitaia Printing.com Wins National Franchise of the Year Award

FOR IMMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12 November 2014

Printing.com Kaitaia has just been named the printing.com Franchise of the Year 2014. The Northland print and design company was one of 40 stores competing for the title in Wellington at printing.com’s national conference.

There are 40 printing.com franchises throughout New Zealand, making printing.com the largest distributed printing company in the country.

Adam Still, general manager of printing.com New Zealand, said the Kaitaia franchise stood out in this year’s competition with their accurate application of printing.com processes, the implementation of new initiatives and their brand engagement over the past 12 months.

“The team in Kaitaia has been the earliest adopters of new technology within the printing.com offering and worked extremely hard over the past year to grow their business in alignment with the vision and direction of printing.com New Zealand Head Office,” said Adam.

“John and his wife Rachel then positioned themselves as internal ambassadors to assist other franchisees where they wanted improvement, anything from the adoption of processes to working on product presentations for client meetings."

“Kaitaia’s efforts as a franchisee go beyond the call of duty and have inspired others to strive for excellence."

John Stewart credits the award to his team’s hard work and dedication and printing.com Head Office’s continued support and supply of breakthrough print and online resources and technology.

“Our team has worked really hard to get our online ordering system – Brand Demand – out and in front of customers, it’s a great product and we are very proud to receive this award,” said John.

“Our online systems and editable templates have set us apart from our competitors, they have enabled us to extend our territory so that we can provide for clients all over New Zealand. We now have five large franchised companies ordering print every day through Brand Demand."

John Stewart has been in the print industry for many years. He first bought shares in Top Print in 2000 but when the financial crisis hit they had to make some future-proofing decisions and in 2007 they joined with the global franchise, printing.com. The Kaitaia team took advantage of the wide range of resources on offer and the marketing systems in place in order to deliver the best possible service for their clients and from there built the successful business it is today.

“Over the past seven years printing.com has supplied us with resources and technologies which has been vital to our growth as a business and the added value we pass on to our customers,” says John.

“We are so glad to be a part of this franchise and love the ever-evolving world of print which challenges us to be better so that we can offer the best solution for our customers’ needs. We are moving more and more toward online solutions which gives us the opportunity for national reach and cost effective, easy access for our customers."

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