Inland Printers Share Price

Incorporated in 1978, Inland Printers (IPL) is managed by chairman A C Shah. The company is in the printing stationery industry with its main activities being in standard impression paper and printing brochures using the offset printing process. The company presently produces/markets printed products such as memorandum & articles of association, annual reports, dividend warrants, interest warrants, continuous stationery and computer forms, prospectuses and other documents, corporate profiles, application and business forms, brochures, publicity material, product literature and books. In Apr.'95, it came out with a Rs 12-cr public issue at a premium of Rs 50 to part-finance its expansion-cum-modernisation activities by increasing the production capacity from 540 to 1771 million standard printing impressions pa. It is proposed to expand and modernise the documentation and design studio with computerised typesetting, laser proofing, CAD for text and graphics with facilities for scanning and imaging, photo offset film and plate processing, sheet fed and high-speed web-offset printing including production of computer business forms, modern fully automatic binding, improved storage and material handling, packaging and mailing of printed products. IPL has a service tie-up with R R Donnelley Financials for international financial printing jobs. During the year 1999-2000, the company entered into an agreement to sell the company's building at Andheri to M/s Dreamworks Entertainment & Software Ltd., inorder to retire huge debts mounting in the past few years. The company is taking steps to implement the development of software and internet related activities.