Turnover up at Snap Printing

Snap Printing has reported a 12% hike in turnover to €22.7m for the year ended December 31, 2006.

“The basis of our success over the past year was our ability to offer new products and services that genuinely saved our clients time and money,” said Muiris Murphy, group managing director.

“We are getting into the design process earlier and earlier with our customers and find ourselves providing marketing constancy by way of formulating the ideas for promotions, brochures, newsletters and annual reports, designing these pieces, printing them and distributing them.

Mr Murphy said in an industry that has seen its fair share of casualties in terms of the reduced number of printers, Snap has moved to offer their customers a wider base of products to choose from and this has been key to our success in Ireland to date.

The print and design company is owned and operated by individual franchise owners.

They opened three new franchises across Ireland in 2006 and has increased its workforce by 20%, to 180 people, over the last two years.

In 2006, the company also completed a €4m investment in developing its 20,000 sq. ft centralised facility at Baldonnell, Dublin.

Snap Printing was founded in 1984 by Irish businessman Michael Kearney and employs 180 people across its 22 Irish franchises.

The company offers a huge range of products and services, including marketing communication advice, graphic design, direct mail, hundreds of promotional products, point of sale, presentation of quarterly and annual reports and all forms of digital and litho printing.