Contact:

 

Company name: RCC Casals Consultants, S.A:

 

Year of foundation: 1993

 

Ricard Casals, Chairman

 

Muntaner, 468, Ent 2

08006 Barcelona

 

Phone: +34 93 204 65 63

Fax:      +34 93 280 57 27

E-Mail:  general@rccsa.net

 

www.rccsa.net

 

 

Brief CV of the contact:

 

Born in 1938, Ricard Casals was studying at the Barcelona University to become Industrial Engineer, with specialisation on Electronics, Chemistry and Management. In 1959, he established his own printing and publishing company and, in 1963, he decided to become Howson's agent in Spain for their lithographic plates. In 1966 Howson-Algraphy , S.A. was formed and local manufacturing and sales started to grow rapidly, until becoming part of DuPont. In order to be able to dedicate all his time to the different technical and marketing aspects of the trade, in December 1993 he decided to establish his present company, RCC Casals Consultants, S.A. Furthermore, he was contributing to the establishment of the European association of consultants GAIN and coordinates at present the GAIN activities.

 

Brief description of the company:

 

The area of operations of RCC has a broad portfolio to be able to fulfill the needs of the customers and their marketing requirements in all sectors and markets. Therefore, its range of services covers all the areas of responsibility of the printing firms management teams, having more than 30 years of experience working in Spain , Portugal and throughout Latin America . This experience has been developed and blended with a modern and dynamic marketing philosophy, along with the latest technologies and convenient strategies. Additionally, RCC has conducted a large number of conferences, seminars and presentations, and published more than 100 books and dictionaries about the key subjects of the graphic arts industry.

 

Main activities:

Amongst others, some of the main activities of RCC Casals Consultants, are:

  • Managing strategies
  • Marketing strategies
  • Job costing and estimating
  • Investment in new equipment / facilities
  • Production standardisation and optimisation
  • Technical and quality audits
  • Personnel / Dealer selection
  • Market surveys
  • Conferences, presentations and seminars
  • Translations

 

 

Typical projects lead during the last few years:
Amongst others, some of the last projects lead by RCC Casals Consultants, are:

  • Streamlining of the purchase of printing products for a very important Spanish insurance company
  • Survey about the consumption of fine papers in the Spanish graphic arts industry for a British Institution
  • Analysis of the labels market in Spain (present situation and trends) for an important Spanish printing equipment supplier
  • Analysis of the management organisation and the company strategy of a Spanish publisher
  • Analysis of the viability of installing a CTP systems in Spanish printing companies
  • Evaluation of the management information system installed in printing companies
  • Analysis of the industrial organisation of one of the biggest newspapers publishing groups in Spain
  • ISO 9001:2000 certification for Spanish graphic arts products and services providers
  • Economic evaluation of printing companies for merging or acquisition