CEWE top manager Michael Fries joins Onlineprinters management as of 1 July

Neustadt a. d. Aisch, Germany (ots) - Dr. Michael Fries, former
executive board member of CEWE Color, joins the business management
of Onlineprinters, one of the leading online print shops in Europe,
as of 1 July 2014. The experienced printing industry key player will
take charge of the business management of Onlineprinters Holding GmbH
and its subsidiaries Druckerei und Verlag E. Meyer GmbH and
Onlineprinters GmbH together with Walter Meyer, founder and CEO of
Onlineprinters. The online printing specialist Fries brings many
years of comprehensive strategic and practical experience in the
industry to the table. In his last function as member of the
executive board of the photobook manufacturer CEWE Color, he was
responsible for the company's German operations and the establishment
of the B2B online print shop Viaprinto until 2013. He gained
international management experience with Boston Consulting Group and
before that he managed the production of Mohn Media in the areas of
pre-press and sheet-fed printing with Bertelsmann AG.

Strategy for international expansion of Onlineprinters

"We are very proud that Dr. Michael Fries is supporting us in the
next strategic development stage of our international expansion",
says CEO Walter Meyer, who is looking forward to the new cooperation.
Onlineprinters is among the strongest growing competitors on the
European online printing market. Its growth rate of approx. 20 % per
year and an annual turnover of hundreds of millions make the online
printing service provider one of the market leaders of the industry
in Europe.

"Onlineprinters has already written a great success story in the
printing industry: Walter Meyer has been very successful in online
trading for ten years, and the company is looking back on thirty
years of experience in the printing industry. This is a strong
starting position from which we can further penetrate the online
printing market in Europe. Onlineprinters has an incredible amount of
potential, know-how and strong brands for further expansion. I am
looking forward to facing this new challenge alongside Mr Meyer and
all of the over 500 Onlineprinters employees", says Dr. Michael
Fries, the new CEO, who is eager to tackle the challenges lying ahead
of him.

The formula for success "All print products reasonably priced and
quickly from one source" is paying off: The online print shop has
built a customer base of over 340,000 customers with currently 14
online shops in Europe under the German brand diedruckerei.de and the
international brand Onlineprinters. The high-quality range of offset
and digital printed products at www.onlineprinters.com comprises
anything from flyers to complete trade fair stands, from brochures
from print runs of 1 to 200,000 catalogues. The printed products are
produced in the in-house production facilities at the German company
headquarters in the Nuremberg metropolitan area.

About Onlineprinters GmbH Onlineprinters GmbH is one of the
largest online print shops in Europe. The German enterprise presently
has a staff of 500 and serves 30 countries throughout Europe via
multilingual online shops. 30 years of experience and in-house
production according to ProcessStandard Offset (PSO) guarantee top
quality of the products produced in offset and digital printing
technology. Detailed information on products and company is available
in the online shop and mobile shop of http://www.onlineprinters.com

Press contact:
Patrick Piecha
PR Consultant
Phone: +49(0)9161/6209807
press@onlineprinters.com