Tukaiz Chosen Over 1000 Contenders to Receive a Best-in-Class Award that Recognizes Proactive Processes

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill.— Tukaiz, a leading marketing services production company, is the recipient of the Continuous Improvement Award given by Coinstar, Inc., a leader in automated retail, for its work on Redbox® kiosks’ outdoor signage and merchandising. Coinstar® acknowledged three best-in-class strategic business partners in three different categories. The Continuous Improvement Award is designed to recognize a supplier that is innovative and ambitious when addressing the company’s needs. Being the recipient of such an award is a reflection of the Tukaiz culture, one that thrives on progressive thinking to look creatively at new processes and products in order to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of its client companies.

The annual review features the best large, midsize, small and interactive b-to-b shops. Tukaiz can be found on the list under:

• Midsize
• Franklin Park, IL
• Est. ’12 b-to-b revenue 36.0mil
• % of revenue from b-to-b 97
• Key Clients: Redbox, Burger King, Taco Bell, Pepsico/Frito Lay
• Number of employees: 200

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FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. — Tukaiz LLC, a results-driven marketing services production company, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. March 3, 1963 marks the date when Frank Defino, Sr. launched the firm as a prepress and plate-making services provider in a 5,000 square-foot basement space. Half a century later, the family-owned Tukaiz offers a diverse, innovative array of products and services at their campus that encompasses more than 175,000 square feet across eight buildings, but its commitment to excellence and customer care remains unchanged.

One of the things we pay attention to here is that you can’t just be a print company or an output shop or a fulfillment shop or a creative division. You have to think about what are your customers using to consume media and what are their customers using.

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Tukaiz Vice President, Frank Defino Jr, contributed an article to Printing Industries of America’s Forecast Part 1. A look into the future of print and an overall outlook on the industry of marketing production.

“Print is not dead. This misapprehension, fueled by the enthrallment of anything “digital,” has seen its day. Print is as strong as ever into and through 2013—depending on which type of print we refer to.”

Tukaiz Vice President, Dan Defino, has bylined an article with FastCasual.com, an insight into distributed marketing practices within the quick service restaurant industry.

Modern variable design and production technologies now can support the brand while giving street level owners and managers more latitude in reaching out to customers in the most relevant way possible.

Read Distributed Marketing Empowers Franchisees and Sustains Brand Integrity at FastCasual.com

From direct mail pieces to POP/POS displays, Backstage empowers quick serves to manage individual marketing efforts without compromising the quality and consistency of the brand.

Read more about how Brands Customize Marketing Efforts with Backstage at qsrmagazine.com

“They say print promotions don’t stand a chance, but that’s not true. Each day we get bombarded by emails, and depending on our mood and the amount of time we have, we often look at the header and hit delete. But when tangible, physical mail comes to your mailbox, you have to take action- touch it, decide if you’re going to open it, and read it, investigate it further for yourself.”

-    Frank Defino, Jr.

Read more about how Retailers Look to Mobilize Their Efforts in 2013 at 1to1media.com

Franklin Park, IL, December 13, 2012—Tukaiz LLC, a leading marketing services production company, is one of the first American companies to install an Agfa M-Press Leopard, and the first to install the 5’ x 10’ Automated, a flatbed inkjet press designed to deliver the highest image quality on a wide variety of rigid and flexible substrates for both indoor and outdoor applications. Tukaiz invested in the new system to satisfy an increasing customer demand for POP/POS (POPOS) materials, such as in-store displays; vivid 2-D and textured posters; banners and window and floor clings. POPOS is an expanding market segment that promises continuing growth in years to come.

The innovative M-Press Leopard will give Tukaiz the ability to output in two days what traditionally takes screen printing two weeks, and with higher quality and at reduced cost. This will allow Tukaiz to provide faster turnaround, at a competitive price point and with the consistent quality for which Tukaiz is known.

The manual-loaded M-Press Leopard will accept substrates that include backlit material, paper, self-adhesive vinyl, fluted display board, metal plates, corrugated board, PVC and most POPOS materials, and in sizes up to 62” x 129”. The M-Press produces extremely high image quality using its advanced print-shuttle and page wide print technology.

“The marketing production landscape is changing and this press will support the need to increase time to market and a higher quality of POP and retail signage, which are reported to be the fastest growing segments of the wide-format market. We see this trend proliferating based on our own customers’ demand,” noted Carl Rozkuszka, executive director of operations at Tukaiz. “The quality of the M-Press is the best of any in its class. It’s revolutionary, producing the highest caliber products on the most sought-after substrates, quicker than ever before,” Rozkuszka added.

Tukaiz had been evaluating the M-Press since seeing it at DRUPA earlier this year. Convinced of its quality construction, productivity and reasonable operating costs, Tukaiz purchased the M-Press in September 2012. Because the system is about the size of a bus, the company had to remove a wall to take delivery.