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CPI buys German POD printer buch bücher.de
Tuesday 01. June 2010 - The management of CPI, the number one printer of black & white books in Europe, has announced on May 24th the acquisition of German printer buch bücher.de based near Bamberg and specialised in short-run book manufacturing.
“The expertise and the know-how of buch bücher.de ideally fit with CPI Germanys current offer and strategy” said Pierre-François Catté, Chairman of the Executive Board at CPI.
“Our printing and binding quality puts us among the leading POD printers in Germany”, reckons Robert Höllein, Managing Director of buchbücher.de gmbh.
CPI pursues its strategy of offering to its clients a unique and fully integrated solution to print books in quantities from one to one million. FRANCE, UK and THE NETHERLANDS already have their own production capacities for short-run in toner or, more recently, inkjet with the installation in France of the first QUANTUM.
The teams at buch bücher.de and at CPI Germany are already working on the technical and the commercial integration of the new structure.
« We are especially happy that buch bücher.de joins CPI. It is a great opportunity of growth and development for our 2 companies, in a rapidly changing market. Their equipment and market presence will help us develop our one stop-shop offer: from one to one million books» said INGO SCHOLZ, General Manager for CPI GERMANY.