Grafica Veneta

What Grafica Veneta does

Grafica Veneta S.p.A. is an Italian, family-owned industrial printing company and self-described European leader in book manufacturing, operating from a single covered site of more than 100,000 square meters in Trebaseleghe, Padua. Founded in the 1980s by Sergio Franceschi and Rino Franceschi as a commercial typography serving local government bulletins, the company was repositioned toward book production in the early 2000s under Fabio Franceschi's management following the purchase of its first offset book printing press.

The company delivers end-to-end book production services through in-house offset printing and binding, with product lines spanning school textbooks (Editoria Scolastica), children's books (Editoria per Bambini), and general trade books. Its core operational technology is offset printing integrated with binding within a unified manufacturing complex, supplemented by a 9 MWp photovoltaic installation that yields roughly 3,500 tonnes of annual CO2 savings and supports the company's ESG positioning. The group structure, branded GV Group, includes two wholly-owned US subsidiaries: Lake Book Manufacturing in Melrose Park, Illinois, and P.A. Hutchison Company in Mayfield, Pennsylvania, providing North American book manufacturing capacity.

Commercially, the company operates a B2B direct-sales model targeting publishing houses across educational, children's, and general trade segments. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is consistent with volume-, paper-, and binding-quoted industrial printing contracts. With over 500 employees, the company positions itself as one of Europe's largest dedicated book printing operations, selling on capacity, vertical integration, sustainability credentials, and certified paper sourcing rather than on consumer-facing brand.

Name

Grafica Veneta

Legal name

Grafica Veneta S.p.A.

Website

https://graficaveneta.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Grafica Veneta S.p.A. is a family-owned Italian book printing company providing in-house offset printing and binding to educational, children's, and trade book publishers, operating from a 100,000+ sqm Trebaseleghe facility and serving North America via wholly-owned subsidiaries Lake Book Manufacturing and P.A. Hutchison.

Ownership category

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Product category

Book Printing & Manufacturing

NAICS

Books Printing (323117), Printing and Related Support Activities (3231)

SIC

Book Printing (2732), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

High‑Volume Digital & Offset Printing for Education (Coursepacks, Workbooks, Exams) (EDAEAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Textbook & Academic Print-on-Demand (Coursepacks, Monographs, Journals) (MPAJANAB), Children’s Book Print-on-Demand (Picture Books, Early Readers, YA) (MPAJANAC)

Keywords

• Book printing services
• Offset printing
• Book manufacturing
• Commercial printing
• Publishing production

Headquarters

HQ city

Trebaseleghe

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Book Printing Services: Core revenue from offset printing and binding of books, including educational and children's publishing materials. Full production process performed in-house at the European manufacturing facility.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Grafica Veneta is a book printing and manufacturing company that produces books, school textbooks, and children's books through in-house offset printing and binding operations. The company runs one of Europe's largest integrated printing sites — over 100,000 sqm in Trebaseleghe (PD), Italy — and serves educational, children's, and trade book publishers across Europe and the US. The group also operates two US-based book manufacturing subsidiaries (Lake Book Manufacturing in Illinois and P.A. Hutchison Company in Pennsylvania) for the North American market.

Product overview

Grafica Veneta is a single unified product/service offering comprising an integrated book printing and publishing operation with two US-based subsidiaries. The core Grafica Veneta brand provides offset printing, school textbook publishing, children's book publishing, and binding services from its flagship 100,000+ sqm facility in Italy. Lake Book Manufacturing (Illinois) and P.A. Hutchison Company (Pennsylvania) serve as regional manufacturing hubs for the North American market. Together, the GV Group offers end-to-end production from prepress through binding and fulfillment.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Grafica Veneta Book Printing & Manufacturing End-to-end book printing, binding, and fulfillment performed in-house at the flagship Trebaseleghe (PD), Italy facility spanning over 100,000 sqm. Serves educational publishers, children's book publishers, and trade book publishers requiring large-volume offset printing integrated with binding.
• Lake Book Manufacturing (US Subsidiary) US-based book printing and binding services for North American publishers, operating from a Melrose Park, Illinois facility as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GV Group.
• P.A. Hutchison Company (US Subsidiary) US-based printing services delivered from a Mayfield, Pennsylvania facility as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GV Group, serving North American publishing clients.
• School Textbook Printing (Editoria Scolastica) High-volume offset printing and binding of school and educational textbooks for educational publishers, executed on the integrated Trebaseleghe production line.
• Children's Book Printing (Editoria per Bambini) Offset printing and binding of full-color, illustrated children's books and other illustrated publications, leveraging in-house color print and binding capabilities on the Trebaseleghe site.

Quantifiable outcome

• CO2 savings of approximately 3,500 tonnes annually from photovoltaic energy generation

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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