Toppan America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing Company, Ltd. The company was first established in 1900 and is currently the world's largest book and commercial printers with worldwide sales and marketing activities.Registered as Toppan Printing Company America, Inc. (DBA Toppan America) was initially established in 1964 in New York and has registered offices in New York, New Jersey and California. Originally established as an overseas sales office, Toppan America soon developed its operations to offer color separation and litho preparation services for the printing and publishing trade. In the 1980's Toppan America expanded into high quality, multicolor printing. In 1991, offices and manufacturing operations were consolidated in a modern 220,000 square foot facility in Somerset, NJ and a major financial commitment was made toward establishing this plant as the premiere printing plant in the New York metropolitan region.
Today, irrespective to what printing device we utilize digital or lithographic, we provide valued solutions that meet our clients' needs in all aspects of graphic communications. Our solution driven applications deliver two main areas of success.
- Client Savings Programs
- Client Revenue Growth Applications
Misssion Statement
At Toppan Printing, we never forget that what we do reflects not only on ourselves, but on you. Your printed documents are your face to the world. Your link to your clients and customers. Your image to all who know you. Quality, therefore, is paramount. As it always has been in our 100 year history. In entering the new millennium, and the new digital age, Toppan's commitment to quality is evidenced by the unceasing development of our printing business as well as our expansion into electronics, multimedia and other facets of the rapidly-evolving communications landscape.
Through our efforts and resources, Toppan continues to pursue its singular goal: serving our clients through continuing our role as a leading force in the information and communications industry.
"From digital asset management to distribution - a value chain of solutions."
Ownership Structure
Toppan America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing Company, Ltd. Toppan Printing Company, Ltd. is a public corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Key Executives
- George Maruta, CEO and President
- John Lee, SVP Sales, Commercial and Book
- Ron Ens, Director, Business Development
- Kenichi Sakane, Senior Operations Manager
- Mildred Poli, Manager, Human Resource
- Marty Kawamata, Secretary & Treasurer
- Shelly Reiter, Sales Manager, NJ Commercial Sales
- Kosuke Saeki, Sales Manager, NY Book Production
- Yusuke Suzuki, Sales Manager, LA Book Production
Toppan Printing Company America, Inc. 127 Employees
Toppan Printing Company Ltd. 10,582 Employees
*As of Mar, 2006
Long-Term Corporate Strategy
As a leading company in the information and communications industry in the 21st century, Toppan is taking decisive steps to increase its corporate value over the medium to long term. We are enhancing our original technological strengths and are engaging in the reformation of new operational fields that will drive growth in the future.
We have formulated Toppan Vision 21, which outlines our management policies and the direction we want to take in the 21st century. Under this plan, all employees share a common goal orientation and values as we work to develop new technologies and businesses.
Toppan Vision 21 spells out three key goals:
- Reforming business fields
- Improving profitability
- Bolstering the Group's comprehensive strengths toward which we will strive to make steady progress each year
We have identified five new business fields:
- Information and Networks
- Living Environment
- Electronics
- Personal Service
- Next-Generation Products
At Toppan, we are implementing original strategic development in each field. In particular, we will strive to build a solid operational foundation in growth fields by focusing our investment of management resources on these fields and aggressively pursuing strategic tie-ups with external entities.
Toppan will work to develop operations that utilize the company's IT and marketing capabilities and will provide optimal solutions that draw on an accurate grasp of market changes. In this way, we will expand the scope of our operations and generate profits, thereby achieving ongoing growth for the Toppan Group. In these endeavors, we will continue striving to earn the support not only of our customers and shareholders but also of society.