Akzo Nobel Inks becomes ANI Printing Inks

Akzo Nobel Inks has changed its name to ANI Inks. At the time of the management buy-out of the Printing Inks group from Akzo Nobel in February 2002, it was decided that the group could continue to use the name for a period of three years. That period lapses at the end of 2004.

Peter Koivula, president and CEO at ANI, commented, ‘Apart from changing our name and identity, we’re also taking a decisive step forward in terms of marketing and communication, slightly adjusting our message to the market, making it a significant ingredient in our future customer promise.’

The ANI Printing Inks group has fully owned subsidiaries in most European countries as well as Russia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Morocco, Malaysia, Thailand and the USA. A wide network of distributors covers another 40 countries. Including Trenal, it employs 960 people worldwide and had sales in 2003 of EUR 231 million.