Flexiprint bags National Business Excellence Award

Flexiprint - Sri Lanka’s premier printing company - exclusively catering to the printing needs in the tea bag industry for tea bag tags and envelopes and tag pyramid mesh, won a prestigious award in the printing sector at the recently concluded National Business Excellence Awards held at Hilton Colombo. The NBEA is organized annually by the National Chamber of Commerce to recognize the excellence of the business community in Sri Lanka in all business sectors.

Flexiprint (Pvt) Ltd is a company incorporated under the Board of Investment in the year 1994. The company’s main interest was to serve the then growing tea bagging industry by supplying tea bag tags and envelopes. Managing Director of Flexiprint-Sathis Abeywickrama is a specialist in servicing the value added tea industry since 1979. His invaluable knowledge was paramount when he and his partners first initiated Flexiprint (Pvt) Ltd in 1994; which has since become an internationally acclaimed company.

Flexiprint has grown in parallel to the value added tea industry transcending many limitations which had inhibited the trade during that time. Internationally, Flexiprint is an important player in the tea trade as it caters to a worldwide selection of tea bagging companies for their requirements in tea bag tags and envelopes.

Dedicated to serving the prestigious tea trade in Sri Lanka as well as in foreign markets by supplying high quality, custom printed tea bag tags and envelopes. Being recognized with a National Business Excellence Award under the printing category - Flexiprint’s only line of business of supplying the tea bagging industry - is indeed a unique achievement since most other printing companies serve a diversified clientele in diverse sectors. It is worthwhile to note that Flexiprint has achieved this significant milestone only after a short history of 18 years of which the initial 2 years had been dedicated to meticulous planning.

Managing Director-Flexiprint Sathis Abeywickrama said:

“We won this award due to the dedication in keeping our customers happy while maintaining the essential factors in a business such as achieving a good bottomline with an endemic management system unique to Flexiprint. I have always encouraged my colleagues and workforce to come to work with a smile.”

This philosophy helped Flexiprint to create and gradually increase a circle of happy and contented customers which increased day by day. Knowing the demands of the customers in quantity and quality, Flexiprint was able to invest in new equipment and technology on a yearly basis to produce the best tea bag tags and envelopes that could be bought in Sri Lanka by the world’s tea bagging community.

Flexiprint enjoys a 58% marketshare locally while exporting the balance to the tea bag manufacturers in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kazikistan, Ukraine, Russia, New Zealand and Australia, proudly sealing the exported tea with a Sri Lankan identity. Doing what one does in their best capacity in order to be the best in the trade has been Flexiprint’s success and has won them this prestigious award.