EGA

What EGA does

EGA - Empresa Gráfica Açoreana LDA is a private limited company headquartered at Rua Manuel Augusto Amaral 5, 9500-222 Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, in the Azores, Portugal. Founded on April 6, 1976, the company operates as the regional reference benchmark for graphic arts in the Azores archipelago, having pioneered offset printing in a market previously dominated by typography. It is currently led by the second generation of the founding Henrique family, with Manuel Henrique as administrator.

The company delivers a full-stack graphic arts service: offset and digital printing, pre-press preparation, post-press finishing (cutting, creasing, perforation, plasticization, water varnish, gold/silver/color foil stamping, and binding), and 100% recyclable cardboard packaging production. It claims two unique-in-region capabilities: a fully automatic packaging line producing 400,000 units per day, and the only gold/silver/color stamping system in the Azores. Same-day delivery is available for urgent digital-print jobs.

EGA serves a horizontal mix of business clients across the Azores, including corporate stationery, marketing materials, business forms, books, labels, calendars, and food/pastry packaging customers. Commercial activity is generated via a direct-to-customer motion, primarily through a website-based quote-request system, telephone, email, and walk-in service at the Ponta Delgada headquarters; all pricing is custom and quote-based. The company holds no disclosed external funding, operates without subsidiaries, and confines its service area to the Azores region.

Name

EGA

Legal name

EGA - EMPRESA GRÁFICA AÇOREANA LDA

Website

https://ega.com.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Short description

EGA - Empresa Gráfica Açoreana is a family-owned commercial printer and packaging producer in Ponta Delgada, Azores, founded in 1976. It serves Azorean businesses with offset/digital printing, finishing, and the region's only fully automatic cardboard packaging line and gold/silver foil stamping capability.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Printing and Graphic Arts

NAICS

Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) (323111), Other Paperboard Container Manufacturing (322219), Converted Paper Product Manufacturing (3222)

SIC

Commercial Printing (2750), Paperboard Containers & Boxes (2650), Converted Paper & Paperboard Prods (No Contaners/Boxes) (2670)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial & Offset Printing (Sheetfed/Web) (MPAJALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Paper-Based Packaging & Single-Use Paper Products (Paper Bags, Wraps, Cartons) (CRADALAL), Envelopes & Mailing Products (mailers, padded envelopes) (IMAMAHAD)

Keywords

• Commercial printing services
• Offset digital printing
• Cardboard packaging production
• Print finishing services
• Graphic arts manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Ponta Delgada

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Printing Services: Offset and digital printing services for various materials including catalogs, magazines, brochures, books, business cards, envelopes, and more. Offset printing for large runs with cost efficiency; digital printing for urgent needs and short runs.
2. Graphic Products: Sale of printed products including catalogs, brochures, flyers, invoices, delivery notes, transport guides, receipts, cards, labels, stickers, calendars, and planning materials.
3. Cardboard Packaging: Production of 100% environmentally sustainable cardboard packaging for transport, preservation and product branding.
4. Finishing Services: Post-printing finishing services including cutting, creasing, perforation, varnish application, gloss/matte/velvet plasticization, gold/silver stamping, spiral binding, and staple application.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

EGA provides commercial offset and digital printing services, fully automatic cardboard packaging production (the only such facility in the Azores with 400,000 units/day capacity), and post-printing finishing services including gold/silver/color foil stamping (the only capability of its kind in the region). The company produces business stationery, marketing materials, business forms, books, labels, calendars, and environmentally sustainable packaging for business clients across the Azores.

Product overview

EGA (Empresa Gráfica Açoreana) is a graphic arts company offering offset and digital printing services along with a comprehensive portfolio of printed products including catalogs, magazines, brochures, business stationery (envelopes, letter sheets, business cards), business forms (invoices, delivery notes, transport guides, receipts), books, labels, and specialty items. The company also provides finishing services such as cutting, creasing, plasticization (gloss/matte/velvet), water varnish, gold/silver/color stamping, and binding. EGA is the only company in the Azores producing fully automatic cardboard packaging and pastry packaging (400,000 units daily capacity) and the only one in the region with gold/silver or any color foil stamping capability. Services include pre-press, printing, post-press finishing, and delivery. The company emphasizes same-day delivery for urgent needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Offset Printing
• Digital Printing
• Cardboard Packaging
• Pre-Press Services
• Post-Printing and Finishing Services
• Gold/Silver/Color Stamping (Estampagem)
• Reception and Consultation Services
• Delivery and Expedition Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000 units/day production capacity for automatic packaging

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Quad/Graphics: Quad/Graphics is one of the largest commercial printing companies globally, offering offset and digital printing, finishing, and packaging solutions to brands and publishers across multiple markets. While vastly larger and geographically diversified, it competes in the same core commercial printing and adjacent packaging category EGA operates in, making it the clearest broad incumbent comparable.
• Donnelley Financial Solutions: Donnelley Financial Solutions provides commercial printing and communication services with a focus on regulated, financial, and corporate clients. It shares EGA's B2B custom-print orientation and reliance on finishing and document production workflows, though at vastly greater scale and specialization.
• Smurfit Kappa: Smurfit Kappa is one of the world's largest paper-based packaging producers, supplying corrugated, consumer, and industrial packaging globally. EGA's automatic cardboard packaging business competes in an adjacent, larger market and faces structural pressure or partnership opportunity depending on whether such a player chooses to enter or service the Azores via distribution.
• Mondi Group: Mondi is a vertically integrated paper and packaging group with global operations in corrugated, consumer packaging, and specialty paper. Comparable to EGA on the packaging/paper-product substrate side, it serves as a benchmark for the fiber-based, sustainability-positioned packaging segment EGA's automatic cardboard line plays in.

Emerging players

• Cimpress (Vistaprint): Cimpress operates digital-first mass-customization printing platforms (including Vistaprint) serving SMBs and consumers worldwide. It represents the digital, scalable model that contrasts with EGA's regional offset/finishing orientation, and signals where commercial print customers may shift over time, even if EGA's niche finishing and packaging are partially insulated.

Direct peers

• Graficampos: Graficampos is a Portuguese commercial printing company offering offset, digital, large-format, and finishing services to B2B clients. It mirrors EGA's service mix and SMB/B2B customer orientation at a comparable scale, making it the closest regional direct peer notwithstanding geographic differences within mainland/insular Portugal.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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