ARGaramond

What ARGaramond does

A.R. Garamond s.r.o. is a Czech family-owned commercial printing company (private limited company, IČO 26461366) founded in 1995 and headquartered in a single integrated facility in Jesenice u Prahy, near Prague. The company operates three co-located production divisions — a graphic studio/prepress, an offset and digital printing floor, and a bookbinding/postpress department — that together deliver end-to-end print production including POS materials, corporate identity materials, publications, packaging, large-format prints, calendars, gift items, and full advertising campaign production with assembly and distribution. Its technology base is anchored by Heidelberg offset presses (Speedmaster SM 74-4-L B2 four-color with dispersion lacquer, and SM 52 two-color), Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C6000L and C1085 digital presses, three HP-Latex 570 large-format printers, a Heidelberg Suprasetter 75 CTP, and approximately 30 postpress machines including a Heidelberg ST300 binding line rated at 10,000 brochures/hour; offset printing accounts for more than half of production volume.

The business model is transaction-based B2B printing services revenue, priced by custom quotation per job (format, color, quantity, finishing, material, delivery), with 14-day invoice payment terms and standard ±3% quantity tolerance. Customers submit specifications through the company website (garamond.cz) for immediate quote and delivery timeline; management (owners Láša Poráč and Mirka Poráčová) participates directly in sales and customer service. The firm holds FSC Chain-of-Custody certification (FSC-C119087) and Heidelberg certification. Named enterprise clients span FMCG (Unilever-family brands including Dove, Hellmanns, Cif, Domestos, Lipton, Rama, Timotei; Leerdammer; Vigr; Perla), telecommunications (Vodafone, Signal), insurance (Aegon, Kooperativa), energy (MOL), industrial (Schindler), publishing (Rebo Productions CZ), and religious/government (Archbishopric of Prague).

The company is privately held by the founding family with no external investors, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no M&A history, and no disclosed fundraising. Geographic scope is primarily Czech Republic with select international fulfillment; distribution is handled via own transport and verified contractual logistics partners. The disclosed team is small (six named staff plus the two owners), and the company has received EU/Ministry of Culture Creative Vouchers (Next Generation EU) funding for a brand/logomanual redesign.

Name

ARGaramond

Legal name

A.R.Garamond s.r.o.

Website

https://garamond.cz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

A.R. Garamond s.r.o. is a Czech family-owned commercial printing company, founded 1995 and based in Jesenice u Prahy, providing integrated offset and digital printing, bookbinding, packaging, POS materials, and advertising campaign production for enterprise clients across FMCG, telecom, insurance, and industrial sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Printing Services

NAICS

Books Printing (323117), Graphic Design Services (54143), Printing (32311)

SIC

Book Printing (2732), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330), Commercial Printing (2750)

akta.pro primary industry

Finishing & Post-Press Services (Cutting, Folding, Collating, Laminating, Foil, Emboss) (MPAJALAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mailing, Inserting & Distribution Services (Addressing, Direct Mail, Kitting) (MPAJALAH), Prepress, Plate-Making & Artwork Services (IMALAKAM)

Keywords

• Commercial printing services
• Offset and digital printing
• Bookbinding and finishing
• Prepress and graphic studio
• Print packaging production

Headquarters

HQ city

Jesenice

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Offset Printing Services: High-volume offset printing using Heidelberg Speedmaster machines, primarily for orders where cost-effectiveness at higher quantities makes sense over digital printing. Offset printing accounts for more than half of their production.
2. Digital Printing Services: Digital printing for lower quantities and faster delivery terms. Uses Konika Minolta bizhub PRO C6000L and C1085 for A3+ format up to 350g/m2, and HP-Latex 570 for large-format materials.
3. Graphic Design and Prepress Services: Graphic studio services including graphic designs, typesetting, text breaking, retouching, photo editing, and complete prepress including sheet fitting for CTP.
4. Postpress and Finishing Services: Bookbinding, lamination, stamping, die-cutting, blind-printing, fragrant lacquer applications, and other finishing processes.
5. Advertising Campaign Production and Distribution: Production and distribution of advertising campaigns including materials production, complex assembly according to distribution lists, and logistics coordination.
6. Logistics and Distribution Services: Transport and distribution services for orders according to specified distribution lists, using own transport or verified contractual partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

A.R.Garamond s.r.o. provides comprehensive commercial printing services from design through finished product and distribution, integrating three operations under one roof: a graphic studio (prepress including graphic design, typesetting, and CTP plate exposure), offset and digital printing (Heidelberg Speedmaster, Konica Minolta, HP-Latex), and postpress/bookbinding finishing. The company produces corporate materials, publications, packaging, POS materials, calendars, gift items, large-format prints, and full advertising campaign production with personalization and distribution-list assembly.

Product overview

A.R. Garamond is a Czech family-owned printing company offering comprehensive polygraficke (printing) services since 1995. The company operates three integrated divisions: a graphic studio for design and prepress, offset and digital printing operations, and a bookbinding (postpress) department. The product portfolio spans eight core product categories: POS materials, corporate materials, publications, packaging, large-format prints, calendars, gift items, and full advertising campaign production with distribution. Services include offset printing (using Heidelberg equipment), digital printing (Konika Minolta and HP-Latex), prepress/graphic studio, and postpress/bookbinding finishing. The company specializes in personalization and complex assembly according to distribution lists.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• POS Materials Point of sale materials including flyers, leaflets, posters, wobblery, stands, 3D price tags, shelf-stoppers and leaflet stands for fast-moving consumer goods, telecommunications and pharmaceutical brands requiring high-volume retail distribution.
• Corporate Materials Representative corporate identity materials including letterhead, business cards, notepads, invitations, tickets, postcards, table mats, envelopes, boards, binders, diaries and calendars produced for corporate clients across industries.
• Publications Books, brochures and catalogues with various finishing options including partial lacquer, stamping and lamination, supporting binding types V1 stitched staple, spiral, V2 glued, V3 stitched and V4/V8 book binding for book publishers and institutional clients.
• Packaging Packaging and covers including labels, paper covers, boxes, product covers, tutorials, bags, gift packs and wrapping paper, with food-contact certified options supplied to food and beverage customers.
• Large Prints Large-format prints including citylights, backlights, billboards, banners, floor advertising, window advertising, promo stands, roll-ups, advertising signs, stickers, wallpapers and car stickers on materials ranging from paper to plastic.
• Calendars Calendar manufacturing in large and small quantities including desktop calendars, wall calendars with spiral, stitched or glued binding, three-month planning calendars and pocket calendars, finished with lamination, stamping and fragrance lacquers.
• Gift Items Gift items as indirect sales promotions refined with stamping, partial lacquer and other techniques, including certificates, vouchers, puzzles, playing cards, magnets, colouring books, bookmarks and scratch cards, with conformity certificates for children's use and food contact available.
• Advertising Campaigns Production and distribution of advertising campaigns for large multinational clients, including individual material production, assembly according to complex distribution lists and arrangement of optimal transport, executed with minimum error rates.
• Offset Printing Offset printing service using Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 74-4-L (four-color B2 format with dispersion lacquer) and Heidelberg Speedmaster SM 52 (two-color for business cards, labels and package inserts), with densitometric and spectrophotometric measurement and representing over half of company production.
• Digital Printing Digital printing service on Konica Minolta bizhub PRO C6000L and bizhub press C1085 (up to A3+ format, 350 g/m2) and HP-Latex 570 large-format printers for stickers, billboards, CLV posters, backlights, banners and floor advertising.
• Prepress and Graphic Studio DTP studio providing graphic designs, typesetting, text breaking, retouching, photo editing and complete prepress including sheet fitting for CTP, running on Apple Macintosh iMac with Adobe Creative Cloud and using Heidelberg Suprasetter 75 for direct plate exposure.
• Postpress and Bookbinding Bookbinding, lamination, stamping, die-cutting, blind-printing and fragrant lacquer services executed on approximately 30 postpress machines including Heidelberg ST300, Horizont BQ 270, Rilecart PB 796, POLAR 78 XS, FOLIANT Mercury 530 SF and ZUND XL 1200.

Named customers24 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Graphic Studio PropagandaminorOthersCollaboration with Propaganda graphic studio in Prague for complementary graphic design services. Referenced as preferred partner for clients needing additional design work.
• Web Studio QueryminorOthersCollaboration with Query web studio in Prague for complementary web development services. Referenced as preferred partner for digital presence needs.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Cimpress / Vistaprint: Cimpress (parent of Vistaprint) is a global mass-customization printing platform serving small businesses and enterprise marketing teams. It is comparable to ARGaramond as a competitor for commercial print spend, but competes primarily via web-based, template-driven self-service rather than boutique enterprise service.
• Onlineprinters (diedruckerei.de): Onlineprinters is a German online commercial printing group producing offset and digital print for business customers across Europe. It competes in the same commercial printing category as ARGaramond, but differentiates via a high-volume, self-service web platform rather than personalized enterprise service.
• Elanders: Elanders is a Swedish-headquartered global printing services group offering commercial printing, packaging, and integrated supply chain solutions for enterprise customers. Like ARGaramond, it combines offset and digital printing with binding and finishing under a single provider model, but at significantly larger scale and across multiple geographies.
• Bording Group: Bording Group is a Nordic commercial printing and visual communication provider offering offset/digital printing, signage, and finishing services to enterprise customers. Comparable to ARGaramond in integrated commercial print model, but operates across Scandinavia rather than a single domestic market.
• Graphia: Graphia is a Finnish commercial printing company serving magazine publishers, advertisers, and corporate clients with offset and digital printing plus finishing. It is comparable to ARGaramond in offering a full prepress-to-finishing commercial print workflow for European enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA: CEWE is a large German printing and photo services group, best known for CEWE PHOTOBOOK but also active in commercial printing. It overlaps with ARGaramond's offset/digital printing and finishing capabilities, but at a much larger scale and with a more consumer-facing portfolio.
• Quad/Graphics: Quad/Graphics is one of North America's largest commercial printers, offering offset and digital printing, in-store marketing, and distribution. It is a broad incumbent comparable to ARGaramond's commercial printing and integrated distribution services, but at much larger enterprise scale.

Others

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen: Heidelberg is the German manufacturer of the offset presses (Speedmaster SM 74, SM 52), CTP (Suprasetter 75), and binding lines (ST300) used by ARGaramond. It is an ecosystem participant and equipment supplier rather than a direct competitor, but its certification program shapes Garamond's competitive positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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