March 4, 2002 - Eleven printing facilities that use MAN Roland presses won top honors in NAPL’s Management Plus Awards competition, sweeping almost a third of the 35 available prizes. The competitors were rated on how well their facilities excel in ten performance areas, then judged in a comparison of companies of similar size. The contest criteria covered: - financial performance - internal control systems - marketing/sales plan - customer feedback - vendor relations - business planning - human resources - environmental concerns - quality control - community/industry affairs The MAN Roland users who brought home the top honors and became members of NAPL’s Management Plus Society were: GOLD Flower City Printing, Inc., Rochester, NY – Karl Scheible, President Friesens Corporation, Altona, Manitoba – David Friesen, CEO University of California Printing Services, Berkeley, CA – George Craig, Director SILVER Dynacolor Graphics, Inc., Miami, FL – Don Duncanson, President Bradford & Bigelow, Inc., Danvers, MA – John Galligan, President Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI – John Edwards, President & CEO The Sheridan Press, Hanover, PA – Joan Weisman, President/COO MERIT Bloomington Offset Process, Inc., Bloomington, IL – Thomas Mercier, President & CEO Wicklander Printing Corporation, Chicago, IL – James Wicklander, President/CEO Dome Printing & Lithograph, Sacramento, CA – Ray Poole, CEO The Nielsen Company, Florence, KY – S. Christian Nielsen III, Chairman Additional information about the competition, including a downloadable form printers can use to evaluate the performance of their own facility, is available at www.napl.org.