KVOS Ltd'

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KVOS Ltd.

• Introduction

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KVOS Ltd.

• Introduction for IPN
• Spring meeting 2008
• Dubai

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Who am I ?

• Gudmundur Rúnar Benediktsson
• Gummi_at_kvos.is
• Mechanical Engineer 1993, University of Iceland
• I am Technical Director of Kvos, running
  department that does service, for the
  subsidiaries.
• Technical department
• IT Department
• Maintenance department,
• With Ink in my vessels, father and grandfather
• Been a member of Xplor for years
• Vice president of Xplor Iceland

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What am I doing here, why IPN ?

• Was I just bored and needed excuse to party and
  get away from work?
• Is it to listen to Sveinbjörn and his stories and
  songs?
• Is it to see Torben, and have discussions and
  make business plans at the bar?
• Is it Tony and his strange British humor?
• Is it to join Frank on the night live?
• No it is not only this, but such a global friends
  make life much more colorful and enjoyable

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Why IPN, the business side

• We think that IPN is a window of opportunities
  for our companies
• Open doors to help, information and know-how
• Business opportunities with mutual benefits
• Extra production sites for our customers, by
  global friends.
• Build a network of global friends/partners
• Learning about new ideas and product
• Sharing info and ideas.

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Oddi / Kvos, What are we ?

• The company, Oddi, was established 9. October.
  1943
• A private company, owned by the families of the
  founders.
• Core business has always been printing
• Main objective has been to serve the Icelandic
  market.
• Oddi has always maintained its position as market
  leader in Iceland.

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Oddi / Kvos, What are we ?...

• Kvos
• In the beginning of 2006, Oddi and its
  subsidiaries where restructured and new holding
  company was established, under the name of Kvos
  hf
• Kvos, the name
• Kvos started to invest in printing in E-Europe,
  Infopress in Romania, Delta in Bulgaria, and
  build plant in Hungary
• The group is to day ranked amongst the top 20
  printing companies in Europe (100.000 in total).

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What are we ? ...

• Kvos is a strategic investment company,
  specializing in the printing and media sectors.
• Kvos is international company, based on Icelandic
  roots.
• Kvos has now 10 subsidiary companies in 7
  countries
• Kvoss main function is to manage and support
  its subsidiaries in order to maximize
  profitability.

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Kvos in numbers

• The group 2007 revenues were about 105 Million
  EUR
• Number of employees, 1.300
• 60 of the 2007 revenues are outside of Iceland

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Employees
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Revenue growth
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Available service
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Kvos - companie structure
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Kvos Iceland
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Kvos Iceland
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Kvos Iceland
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OPM

• OPM structure
• Production management and inventory
• Prepress and Digital printing
• Commercial printing
• Finishing
• Packaging
• Folding cartons
• Corrugated boards

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OPM Prepress - equipment

• Prepress
• Creo Lotem 400VA CTP 2 Creo Lotem 800QII CTP
  Creo Dolev 800V CTF BASF flexo platemaking3 HP
  Improof - digital imposition proofIRIS 4Print -
  color proofingIRIS 2Print - color proofingCreo
  iQsmart III 4C Scanner

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OPM Digital printing - equipment

• Digital printing units
• HP Indigo 5500
• Xerox DocuColor 250
• Xerox DocuTech 6065 b/w
• Heidelberg Digimaster b/w
• AMS 3600 Ink Jet addressing printer
• Scanner
• Xerox FreeFlow 665E

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OPM Printing - equipment

• Heidelberg/Goss Harris M-600 heatset Web 4/4
  color
• Heidelberg Speemaster 102 CD - 6 color Varnish
• Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 - 8 color perfector
• Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 - 2 color perfector
• Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 - 4 color
• Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 2 color x2
• Heidelberg GTO 1 color
• Man Roland 500 6 litur waterbased varnish
  UV varnish
• Drent narrow web 6 color and sheeting
• Drent narrow web 4 color
• Heidelberg cylinder
• Heidelberg diagonal x2

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OPM Finishing - equipment

• Heidelberg Stahl Folders x6
• Muller Martini Stitching machines x2
• Muller Martini Monostar Perfect binder
• Muller Martini gathering and sewing machine
• Kolbus Case Bound book line
• Kolbus case makers and gold foil blockers
• Bobst die cutter
• Bobst Fuego, folding-gluing

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OPM Packaging - Equipment

• Corrugated cardboards
• Peters, corrugated cardboards production
• Martin, Printing, gluing and die cutting
• Bobst, corrugated cardboards die cutting
• Segmatic, corrugated cardboards die cutting
• Printer Flexo, printing for corrugated cardboards
  
• Folding carton
• Bobst, compound sheeter, printing and die cutting
• Bobst, die cutters
• Passaban, sheeter
• Bobst Fuego, folding-gluing
• Vega, folding-gluing x2
• Post, gluing
• Oakland, waxing machine

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OPM Transactional printing

• Home grown program to process data and create
  pages
• Data from customers in various format via FTP
• Processed and printed on OPM digital machines.
• Sealer finishing of single pages with Bowe Sealer
  machine
• Normal inserting done by Sveinbjörn Umslag

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Digital solutions

• Kvos is running, programming and servicing
  systems for its subsidiary firms.
• FTP servers
• Web2Print
• Web servers
• Workflow systems
• Custom made systems for information gathering
  over the web, and semi automatic catalog creation
• System for creating Web view of printed documents

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Major customers of Kvos Iceland

• Book publishers in Iceland
• Magazine publishers in Iceland
• Retail firms in Iceland
• Banks and finance companies
• Government and its companies
• Ad agencies
• Big and small firms
• Individuals

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Kvos International

• Infopress group
• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Hungary
• Oddi Polska 49
• ODDI Printing Corp.
• Oddi-Atlantic USA
• Packaging
• Comercial printing

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IPG locations
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IPG equipment

• Pre-press
• Screen PlateRite Ultima 32000 CTP
• Screen PlateRite Ultima 24000 CTP
• Kodak Trendsetter Quantum III CTP
• Sheet-fed presses
• HEIDELBERG SPEEDMASTER CD 5 C
• HEIDELBERG GTO 4c
• SPEEDMASTER SM 74 4c
• SPEEDMASTER SM 102 8c x2
• SPEEDMASTER SM 102 4c

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IPG equipment Web Presses

• Web presses
• MAN LITHOMAN IV 32-page press
• MAN ROTOMAN-N 16-page press
• MAN ROTOMAN-D 16-page press
• MAN LITHOMAN III 32-page press
• KOMORI S38 16-page
• SOLNA D25 Cold-set
• GOSS M-600 16-page

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IPG equipment Finishing

• MULLER MARTINI PRIMA stitching machines
• MULLER MARTINI 279 stitching machine
• MULLER MARTINI gathering machine
• MULLER MARTINI CORONA COMPACTA CC12 perfect
  binding machine
• MULLER MARTINI INVENTA sewing machine
• MULLER MARTINI SAFIR individual wrapping and
  addressing machine
• MULLER MARTINI Rubin individual wrapping and
  addressing
• HANS-MULLER 227 inserting machine

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IPG customers

• Magazine publishers
• Burda
• National Geographic
• Playboy
• Etc.
• Retail chains
• Brochures
• Marketing material

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• Thank your for the opportunity to apply for IPN
  membership
• Thank you for your kindness and warm welcome
• Thank you for being our global friends

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