BK'Art a new group bringing together a graphics studio and three finishing workshops has just been born in New Aquitaine. BK'Art includes the studio Alket Éditions in Angoulême, Pyrenees Gilding Cut-out in Pau, GB Façonnage in Puymoyen, and Cognac Emballages Services in Cognac.
Acquisition of a first company in 2013
Laurent Becquart is at the head of the group. After fifteen years of experience in the printing sector, he took over his first company, Cognac Emballages Services, in 2013. The company specializes in contract packaging, mainly for Cognac Houses and printers, and also carries out packaging personalization by printing by reprinting.
In January 2018, Laurent Becquart took over Pyrénées Dorure Découpe, a company focused on printers, which carries out the finishing of packaging: hot stamping, lamination, special screen printing','www.printindustry.news/search/serigraphy');" class="lien-auto-article" href="https://www.printindustry.news/search/serigraphy">screen printing varnishes, die-cutting, etc.
Alket Editions and GB Façonnage join the group in July 2020
The BK'Art group was born with the purchase last July of Alket Editions and GB Façonnage, both located in Angoulême. Alket Editions is a graphic studio that creates and realizes graphic projects and then takes care of their production.
" ?L 'Alket Editions' interest, apart from the creative and artistic sense that emerges from it, is to manage the production of graphic projects and to have them produced within the group. Only the printing is subcontracted to partners sélectionnés?" explains Laurent Becquart.
As for GB Façonnage, it is a company focused on printers as well as Pyrénées Dorure Découpe, which carries out the shaping and volume setting of printed documents: glued square back, Singer stitching, assembly-stitching, folding, re-folding, cutting ..
A clientele from north to south
BK'Art has a customer base that stretches from Nantes to Marseille, 90% of which is made up of printers (with the exception of Cognac Emballages Services, which has a specific customer base). The creation of the group will enable, in addition to better cohesion in communication, to broaden the customer base of the different companies - customers of one entity can more easily become customers of another entity - and will also give the group a favorable influence in purchasing negotiations.
The group plans to invest in GB Façonnage in the near future. "?Des investment projects are being studied to improve the types of services we can provide to printers in converting, as well as in strengthening our capacity at production?" explains Laurent Becquart.
