Kudos to winners:
2008-2010 International Newspaper Color Quality Club
India Shining!
Four Indian newspaper titles in world’s top 50
Hindustan and Hindustan Times - HT Media Limited;
Maharashtra Herald - Sakaal Papers Ltd; DNA –
Diligent Media Corp Ltd got the membership in the
International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2008–2010.
Making India proud: Indian winners sharing a moment of pride together.
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IFRA, NAA and PANPA
announced recently the world’s
50 best newspaper printers and
awarded them membership in the
International Newspaper Color
Quality Club 2008–2010 (INCQC –
www.colorqualityclub.org). This is
the only worldwide quality printing
competition for newspapers, which
was first held in 1994 and has taken
place since then at two-year intervals
and this time attracted the record
number of 198 registrations.
An international jury of experts met
earlier this year in Phoenix, Arizona,
to select not only the best results
worldwide, but also the most
successful regional results from
North America and Asia. The 50
newspaper titles from 18 countries
that achieved the coveted
international Club membership were
presented and honoured at Nexpo
2008 (April 12 - 16, 2008, Washington
DC). Fifty percent of the new INCQC
members are first-time members. The
St Galler Tagblatt (Switzerland) has
been a member in the quality club
without interruption since 1994,
therefore qualifying eight times.
The Asian Newspaper Color
Quality Awards were bagged by
several famous Asian titles, which
included Hindustan and Hindustan
Times - HT Media Limited, India;
The Maharashtra Herald - Sakaal
Papers Ltd, India; DNA – Diligent
Media Corp Ltd, India; The Asahi
Shimbun - Asahi Shimbun Co Ltd,
Japan; Guang Ming Daily and Sin
Chew Daily - Sin Chew Media Corp
Bhd, Malaysia; Gulf News - Al Nisr
Publishing LLC, United Arab
Emirates; Lianhe ZaoBao, Berita
Harian, The Straits Times and The
Business Times - Singapore Press
Holdings Limited, Singapore and
Apple Daily – Apple Daily Printing
Ltd, Hong Kong.
After that, the individual evaluation
reports were mailed to the
participants and the book (The
Winners) accompanying the
competition, containing a one-page,
detailed description of each of the
50 successful INCQC members, was
also published later.
Newspaper houses from all
continents registered for the INCQC
2008–2010 and, with 198
nominations, entered the largest
number of newspaper titles to date.
Likewise the number of countries
from which these titles were
registered, at 43, was a record.
Participation was open to all
newspapers, independent of
circulation, frequency of publication
(daily or weekly) and IFRA, NAA
or PANPA membership.
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