Since school days, printing was somewhere in the mind as an option. I used to think printing & publishing as a provider of "food for thought". I have been involved in various activities in my college days - Editor of College Gazette and reporting for a newspaper etc. I came to Saudi Arabia and joined Al-Madina Newspaper in 1983 and "this is my career now".
What do you like most about your job?Challenges, innovation, market dynamics, meeting new people and developing friendship.
What is the worst thing about your job?Stress of meeting deadlines.
What would be your dream job?To establish a printing museum of international repute.
What is your favourite phrase or saying?Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with
In 2004, I took an opportunity to work as senior sales and marketing executive for LG advertising materials distributor in UAE. As it was a sales profile and related to the advertising industry, I didnt think twice.
What do you like most about your job?I got an excellent opportunity to spearhead the Graphic Division of our company and a chance to apply my entrepreneurial skills and take decisions related to the business.
What would be your dream job?Manufacture world
What do you like most about your job?
The client’s understanding of the product.
What is the worst thing about your job?
The client’s lack of knowledge of company products.
What is your dream job?
Becoming an army officer.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
The easy and modernised way of life.
What is your favourite film?
The James Bond series.
What makes you laugh?
Well-crafted
I am working for a paper trading company. This includes printing more or less.
What do you like most about your job?The personal contact with clients and the possibility to create and build up new business ideas.
What is the worst thing about your job?No time to rest. You always have to keep thinking about the future.
What would be your dream job?I have it already.
What do you like about living in the UAE?The hospitality and freedom of business.
What is your favouriteWhat do you like most about your job?
Knowing that I can make a difference with my team.
What is the worst thing about your job?
Making sure that my team members keep a healthy work-life-balance.
What is your dream job?
A watchmaker.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
The cosmopolitan environment and the sunshine.
What is your favourite phrase or saying?
Be the change you want to
I have been working with Tecom for 4 years, which has various entities focusing on printing and advertising
What do you like most about your job?I love being in sales, focusing on media which is very interesting
What is the worst thing about your job?That I have to drive all the way from Sharjah
What would be your dream job?Owning an advertising company
What do you like about living in the UAE?I have lived here all my life, I like the cosmopolitan feel of the place
How did you get into printing?
By chance. Came to Dubai in 1996 and started the business.
What do you like most about your job?
Innovation. Offering a product and business package, looking at costing and being innovative.
What is the worst thing about your job?
Does not give me enough time to play golf.
What is your dream job?
To make Abm Inks a multinational company.
What do you like about living
I entered print market after offer from Bobst group about 25 years ago. The offer came to me after finishing my PhD.
What do you like most about your job?Good thing about my job is that I get to meet more people.
What would be your dream job?To be artist. Its completely different but I used to be artist during my school days.
What do you like about living in the UAE?The people in this region are king and warm to others.
What is your favourite film?Citizen by Orson
What do you like most about your job?
That I’ve never experienced the feeling of not wanting to go to work. I love my job.
What is the worst thing about your job?
When I’m not delivering results to expectations.
What is your dream job?
Being the manager of an English football club.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
The diversity of the people and the cultures
It was a beautiful co-incidence, through one of my closest friends I happened to meet Mazen Haj, the MD of Printec and his enormous confidence and trust in me to achieve his vision, is what all motivated me to opt into this amazing industry.
What do you like most about your job?Meeting highly creative people and dealing with them at their level fascinates me the most. There are tremendously talented and honed people existing in this industry and to work with them
What do you like most about your job?
Travelling and experiencing different cultures.
What is the worst thing about your job?
I cannot take a month’s vacation.
What is your dream job?
This one would be if I could take a month’s vacation!
What do you like about living in the UAE?
It is close to my home in Mumbai, India.
What makes you laugh?
Watching my
Due to involvement in Apple business as authorised distributor, I first got into printing. Now it has been 21 years in this business for me
What do you like most about your job?Since we keep getting new technology we need to learn and update continuously.
What is the worst thing about your job?Lots of stress involved because we need to educate and teach people about new technology. Many challenges
What do you like about living in the UAE?Rules and regulations in
How did you get into printing?
I started as a service engineer in Manchester in 1970.
What do you like most about your job?
Travel and meeting customers.
What is the worst thing about your job?
It’s hard being away from my family so often.
What is your dream job?
I am living my dream. Second is being Wayne Rooney’s strike partner.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
The weather, the people, facilities and hospitality.
What is your favourite phrase or saying?
How did you get into printing?I opted for Xerox Egypt in 1990 as aim to join the market leader. Since then very much into the print business.
What do you like most about your job?It is a target oriented job with real challenge. There is a lot to learn about operations and logistics focus.
What is the worst thing about your job?Having fantastic brands, current environment and low market speed is putting lot of pressure.
What would be your dream job?Have good local knowledge and then retire by
Why did you get into print?
I always had a fascination with colours.
What do you like most about your job?
I like having the freedom to do things the way that I want. but I also enjoy serving customers.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
I like the social security and the international culture.
What is your favourite phrase or saying?
God is good all the time.
What is your favourite film?
Lagaan.
If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?
Myself. I constantly
My family owns a print house and from childhood I liked the sound of printing presses.
What do you like most about your job?As I am responsible for 16 countries what I like most the different characters of the people I am dealing with.
What is the worst thing about your job?Making appointments and hoping the customer will not forget them
What would be your dream job?Running a social institution that develops education and farming technology in third world
Why did you get into print?
People will always want to feel books and magazines.
What do
It was a natural choice because printing is my family business
What do you like most about your job?It is creative, trendy and challenging
What is the worst thing about your job?There is really none
What is your dream job?To be an architect
What do you like about living in the UAE?The cosmopolitan environment
What is your favourite film?Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
What makes you laugh?A good sense of humour
Which superpower would you like to have?Sixth Sense
If youHow did you get into print?
By chance. When I worked for British Telecom I applied for the position of printer technical manager in the IT marketing division and got it.
What do you like most about your job?
No two days are really the same. The variety of cultures and challenges that this brings is also interesting. I love to cook as a hobby and travelling around the world and experiencing different foods is very enjoyable.
What is the worst thing about your job?
I like variety and
What do you like most about your job?
The need of getting updated all the time to face the business and industry challenges; this motivates me.
What is the worst thing about your job?
Our customers and partners expect us to be on call 24/7, a standard that has been set by the industry.
What is your dream job?
To become supplier who is a market leader.
Why did you get into printing?
There will always be a need for printing because a paperless world will never exist
What do you like most about your job?
I like to implement strategies that deliver results
What is the worst thing about your job?
Competition does not sleep in on the weekend
What would be your dream?
No work, full pay.
What do you like about living in this part of the world?
With the traffic jams, there’s always enough time to listen to your favourite music.
What is
What is your dream job?
Running my own marketing consultancy and advertising agency.
What do you like about living in the UAE?
The international exposure that we live in yet being in