Father-and-son team Carlo and Deon Capogreco from South Australia’s Big Image Australia have won the 2002 ProPrint Awards Editor’s Choice.
printIQ is the sponsor of the ProPrint Awards Editor’s Choice award.
The Capogreco’s story of resilience after bouncing back from a devastating fire which destroyed their entire factory on Boxing Day 2020 was enough to convince this editor that they deserved some recognition.
The printing industry is full of amazing stories. The people who work in this industry are creative problem solvers and incredibly hard workers.
At PacPrint, I by-chance met Deon Capogreco and was struck by his story of devastation and renewal.
The fire took everything, all their equipment right down to desk chairs and the recovery effort would be huge. It came at the end of 2020, a year of exhausting Covid lockdowns and stress.
But the Capogrecos kept going. They found a place to work from and kept servicing their clients. Other printers pitched in to help them through the hard times and suppliers kept them in stock with product.
The support they received proved the high regard they are held in.
Now they are back on track, in fantastic new premises and on the up. It was a pleasure to include them as the Star Business in the August issue of ProPrint.
Congratulations Deon and Carlo.
Huge thank you to the ProPrint Awards’ amazing sponsors & supporters:
Platinum Sponsor: Durst Oceania
Gold Sponsors: DIC, HP, OKI and Orafol with Media Super the Foundation Partner of the Emerging 50.
Silver Sponsors: Ball & Doggett, Böttcher Systems, Bright Print Group, Cactus Imaging, Centrum Group, Graph-Pak, Kurz , Lamson Paragon, Pakko, Ricoh and Visual Connections.
printIQ is the sponsor of the ProPrint Awards Editor’s Choice award.
Ball & Doggett is the sponsor of the Sustainability Prize.
The Print & Visual Communication Association is the Mentorship Partner for the Emerging 50.
PKF is the Auditing Partner for the Printer 50.
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