Five winners for Australia. Congratulations to you all.
The FESPA Hall of Fame is the international award which recognises the leading lights of the wide format print community. After an immensely successful campaign prior to and during FESPA Digital 2012 in Barcelona, the individual votes per country in the Hall of Fame have now been counted and verified.

Over 6,000 votes for more than 400 printers in 40 countries were received for Hall of Fame and only 60 votes separated the top 5 printers.

Duncan MacOwan, Head of Events and New Media for FESPA commented:

"The calibre and overwhelming number of nominations we received for printers from all over the world for the inaugural FESPA Hall of Fame has been awe inspiring. It really does underline once again FESPA’s strong international audience, and how valued these talented printers are to our industry. To have been nominated by your peers is an amazing achievement, well done to everyone!”

FESPA would like to say thank you to all that have voted and congratulations to those who were nominated for their fantastic work for our industry. View www.fespa.com/halloffame to read a personal quote from the overall winners and stay posted to FESPA.com for more information on Hall of Fame 2013.

The crowned World Print Champion for the FESPA Hall of Fame 2012: WINNER 1st overall: Rich Thompson, AdGraphics, (USA)
with runners up:
2nd Kishore Musale, Classic Stripes, (India)
3rd Birol Fedai, Sistem Printing, (Turkey)
4th Keith Ferrel, Cactus Imaging, (Australia)
5th Simon Pless, Erler & Pless, (Germany)

We are now delighted to announce the breakdown of the FESPA Hall of Fame 2012 winners and runners up for each country:

Australia
1st Keith Ferrel, Cactus Imaging
2nd Martin Johnston, VE Graphics
3rd Glenn Watson, AFI Branding Solutions
4th Steve Allardice, Direct Image
5th Bruce Rayment, Halifax Vogel Group

Austria
1st Stefan Fiedler, SALON IRIS Stefan Fiedler Imaging GmbH
2nd Werner Lang, Lang + Lang
3rd Thomas König, Typico GmbH & Co KG
4th Martin Wikturna, Trevision
Belgium
1st Dan Vandevoorde, X-treme creations
2nd Christian Duyckaerts, FESPA
3rd Marc Verdonck, GSI Printing
4th Edwin Birnbaum, Wollux

Bosnia Herzegovina
1st Goran Kukic, Margo Digital Printing
2nd Adrijan Kurtovic, PRINT STUDIO d.o.o.
3rd Osman Kucuk, SOREA d.o.o.

Brazil
1st Ricardo Fantini, Fantini All Print
2nd Emerson Camargo, F9
3rd Ricardo Nani, Fusão
4th Alessandre Pi, Fixxar Print Solutions

Bulgaria
1st Mario Stoyanov, Billboard JSC
2nd Alexander Tanev, BRAVO Printing Technologies
3rd Vladislav Shindov, ANDREA Ltd.
4th Stanislav Draganov, Piramidi ltd

Canada
1st Scott Crosby, Holland & Crosby
2nd Robert Murray, McRae Imaging
3rd Alan Culbert, The Central Group

China
1st Jiwen Zhang, Beijing Taipingqiao Printing Materials Factory
2nd Chunlai Li, Beijing Guohe Haidali Electronics Technology Co.,Ltd.

Croatia
1st Robert Kunstek, Print Grupa d.d.
2nd Nehad Vukovic,

Czech Republic
1st Tomas Novak, Astron Print s.r.o.
2nd Pavel Benes, ELON Technologies
3rd Nosek Vaclav, Eclipse, a.s.
4th Martin Kulisek, PrintHouse Morava s.r.o
5th Ivan Dolezal, Svet Tisku, spol. s r.o.

Denmark
1st Anders Vangsgaard, Vangsgaard A/S
2nd Allan Hansen, OK Skilte & Print ApS
3rd Troels Nørhede, Visuel Print AS

Finland
1st Jussi Heinämäki, Seri-Deco Oy
2nd Aki Alenius, LEEVIPRINT
3rd Hannu Aejmelaeus, SCA Packaging

France
1st Jean - Philippe Delmotte, Prismaflex
2nd Michel Caza, FESPA
3rd Jean-marie Lambert, Horizon Numeric Center
4th Guy Soffientino, Kroma
5th Franck Allilaire, Cottel Com

Germany
1st Simon Pless, Erler + Pless
2nd Andreas Thamm, Thamm GmbH
3rd Helmuth Frey, Emil Frey KG
4th Gerhard Worch, Kürten & Lechner GmbH

Greece
1st Ioannis Arvanitis, Image Solutions
2nd Solos Sokratis, Aemex S.A
3rd Joseph Athanassiou, Technographiki L.T.D.
4th Elias Koutoumanos, NETPRINT S.A.

Hungary
1st Csaba Mile, OSG Hungary
2nd Peter Bannerth, ScreenArt
3rd Ivan Dimitrievics, Plastiprint Kft
4th Ildikó Simon, Eclipse Print
5th Csaba Horvath, Budapest University

India
1st Kishore Musale, Classic Stripes
2nd Anuj Desai, Image Care
3rd Kamlakar Wadekar, Ace Printers
4th Amit Shah, Spectrum Scan Pvt Ltd

Ireland
1st Ronan Conway, Print & Display
2nd Nathy McIntyre, CSS
3rd Fergus Murray, Universal Graphics Ltd
4th Colin Culliton, The Printed Image

Italy
1st Roberto Posarelli, Esanastri
2nd Andrea Masserdotti, Gruppo Masserdotti Spa
3rd Giuseppe De Bartolo, Pubblicità & Stampa srl

Mexico
1st Rafael Munoz Morales, Prodigyo Imagen Visual SDE RL DE C.V.
2nd Daniel Sunderland, Serigrafica Industrial Y Comercial S.A.

Netherlands
1st Andre America, Matrix Frame BV
2nd Nico Van Straaten, VAN STRAATEN B.V.
3rd Marc Schoenmakers, Dereumaux XL
4th Ed Hoogendijk, Poster Publi Print Nederland

Norway
1st Egil Lindberg, Serimaster AS
2nd Morten Emanuelson, Mageprint AS

Poland
1st Marcin Mielcarek, Masterprint Xl sp.z o.o.
2nd Maciej Urban, Grawcom
3rd Jacek Stencel, Pasja

Portugal
1st Pedro Jacques De Sousa, Impression Portugal
2nd Carlos Nevoa, Ditram

Romania
1st Gheorghe Baraian, Impression Graphics Romania
2nd Andrei Cascaval, Media Tech Services
3rd Bokor-toth Zoltan, Multi NR SRL

Russia
1st Artem Nadirashvili, Midiprint
2nd Aleksandr Antipyev, CRT Perm
3rd Ruslan Zakirov, Ligo
4th Andrey Bayduzhiy, Mir Reklamy

Serbia and Montenegro
1st Sinisa Radnovic, GRAFIX
2nd Djordje Mihalacki, NS Plakat
3rd Dusan Golubovic, Serbian digitalprinting association

Slovakia
1st Mojmir Bittner, Bittner Print s.r.o
2nd Lubos MacKo, Willmark, s.r.o.
3rd Andrej Klima, KPK Group Ltd.

Spain
1st Juan Garcia Tripero, JDJSA
2nd Javier Clemente, Pioner Serigrafia
3rd Luis Rovira, Sundisa
4th Pep Moreno Sastre, Brown Tailor, S.L.

Sweden
1st Torbjörn Johansson, Tobex AB
2nd Anders Nilsson, Gamlebyscreen
3rd Stefan Engelin, Paravan AB
4th Johan Soovéer, Aare Grafiska
5th Andreas Skantze, Big Image Systems

Switzerland
1st Philipp Gloor, movingposter.ch GmbH
2nd Hanspeter Spitzer, Scanwork AG
3rd Sandra Jacot, ADL Publicité
4th Lorenz Boegli, Atelier fur Siebdruck
5th Yannick Durussel, GIGA+print SA

Thailand
1st Surachet Lumpaolertwilai, President Digital Media Co Ltd
2nd Nicom Ruangtinnakorn, SCALA  SILKSCREEN CO.,  LTD.
3rd Prapaporn Narongrit, Papawin Co Ltd
4th Pirach Thampipit, Morio Co., Ltd.

Turkey
1st Birol Fedai, Sistem printing company

UK
1st Richard Gardner, Gardners
2nd Tim Hill, Speedscreen Creative Print Solutions
3rd Mark Simpson, Simpson Group
4th Lascelles Barrow, Augustus Martin

Ukraine
1st Oleg Kalinichenko, Grand Affiche
2nd Andrii Kyrchanov, Eight color

United Arab Emirates
1st Tareq Ali Al Jawharji, Color Lines Group
2nd Rakesh Puri, Express Print Services LLC
3rd Ahmad Bin Hassan Al Shaikh, Modern Printing Press
4th Amit Radia, Atlas Printing Press

USA
1st Rich Thompson, AdGraphics
2nd Michael Ryan, Brilliant Graphics Group/Sampco Co
3rd JR Kraft, BuildASign.com
4th Charlie Taublieb, Taublieb Consulting
5th Harry Bowers, Drillpress LLC

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