G-PAK JOB WINS COMMENDATION (BACK PAGE)

THE Managing Director of Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), Mr Gregory Metcalf, has expressed satisfaction with the quality of work and the equipment at the G-Pak, a subsidiary of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).
He noted that the state-of-the-art equipment at G-Pak had positioned the company to be competitive in the commercial printing industry.
Mr Metcalf said this during a tour of the facilities at G-Pak yesterday to acquaint himself with the company’s operations.
He expressed ABL’s preparedness to print its labels and other products at the G-Pak.
Mr Charles Obeng Antwi, the General Manager of G-Pak, stated that the company had a high speed flexo printing equipment that used wetstrength to print high quality labels that were cheaper and more durable.
He expressed G-Pak’s determination to acquire equipment for the printing of plastic labels.
Earlier, the ABL managing director and his team had paid a courtesy call on the Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Ibrahim Awal, to introduce himself and also to acquaint himself with the operations of GCGL.
Mr Awal lauded the relationship between GCGL and ABL and expressed the need for the relationship to be moved to a higher pedestal.
He noted that through eight newspaper titles, the activities of ABL could be given a better visibility.
Presently, the G-Pak, Mr Awal said, was printing two million sets of labels for one of the products of ABL, Castle Milk Stout.
The Managing Director of GCGL said as part of its corporate social responsibility, the company was promoting local languages through community newspapers in the country.
He revealed that GCGL was planning to come out with five community newspapers to serve the Northern, Volta and other parts of the country.
Presently, the Graphic Nsempa is serving the Ashanti and the Brong Ahafo regions.
Mr Awal said GCGL had been collaborating with ABL to discharge some of their corporate social responsibilities such as the recent health-walk that was organised by the two companies pooling resources together.
Mr Metcalf, for his part, assured management of GCGL that the collaboration in the area of social responsibility programmes would be sustained and moved to a higher level alongside the business co-operation.
He explained that the ABL was shifting emphasis from paper labels to glossy plastic and metallic labels, because they were resistant to water.
The team from ABL who were on the tour of the GCGL and the G-Pak offices and the flexo printing press included Ms N. Adjoba Kyiamah, Corporate/Legal Affairs Manager, and Chris Wulff-Caesar, Marketing Director.