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The new PA50 program is built on a 3-round voting system for the printing public to decide which leader is Canada’s Most Influential Printer in 2010. (Please see Changes to this Year's PA50, at the bottom of this page, for a brief explanation or read PrintAction's July issue.)

Your voting should be based on two primary areas of influence:

1. Which PA50 printer most influences the direction of Canada’s printing industry, and

2. Which PA50 printer most influences the direction of your company.

The Top 10 printers on this year's PA50 list are:

1. Brian Reid, Transcontinental Printing
2. John Gagliano, St. Joseph Print & Documents
3. Dick Kouwenhoven, Hemlock Printers
4. Philippe Cloutier, Worldcolor Canada (Quad)
5. Allen Hallis, R.R. Donnelley Canada
6. Sean Murray, Advocate Publishing & Printing
7. George Kallas, Metropolitan Fine Printers
8. Ward Griffin, The Lowe-Martin Group
9. Jamie O'Born, The Printing House
10. Gulam Jaffer, West Star Printing

 The Voting Process

To promote objectivity in the process, the voter must choose one individual from each grouping for their vote to count. After Round 1 of voting, the top two vote receivers in each group move onto Round 2, from where the final five finalists will vie for the title of Canada’s Most Influential Printer 2010.

PrintAction readers will be updated on the voting progress through the magazine’s weekly e-newsletter until the winner is announced this Fall. Votes are limited to one per person.

The original groups were (click each name for biography, bolded names moved on to Round 2) :

CHANGES TO THIS YEAR'S PA50

For the past several years, PrintAction worked to remain true to the program title of Canada’s 50 Most Influential People in Graphic Communications, when listing the leaders shaping the near-future of such a far-reaching business arena. We realize, that in the past, the PA50 listing unsettled many people in the printing industry. We certainly heard about it. But, at the turn of this past decade, it was more important to illustrate the external forces in graphic communications effecting the business of printing.

With these forces now well understood, we have decided to revamp the PA50 to focus entirely on printers. The new PA50, which marks the ninth year of the program, will remain true to the title of Canada’s 50 Most Influential Printers. To this end, we have excluded sectors like technology supply and service, education and brokerage from the listing, while acknowledging such individuals are vitally important to Canadian printing.

You will also notice that only the Top 10 printers are now ranked, with the 40 remaining PA50 printers listed in alphabetical order. This is largely because it would be nearly impossible to assess influence among so many private companies. It is easier, of course, to assess the fiscal position and investment practices of public companies, which constituted the majority of PA50 listings in previous years.

The new PA50 program is also structured in a way that allows the printing public to determine Canada’s Most Influential Printer in 2010, who will be named this Fall after three distinct rounds of voting, lasting nearly four months.