Customers and Products Ferozsons–A Publishing Company…..
126 Years of Rich Experience

Ferozsons has a loyal following of customers throughout Pakistan and across the globe, searching for the best products at the best prices. Since its establishment, Ferozsons has dedicated itself to the advancement of education and the enrichment of culture through the development of books and related products, e.g. printing, school textbooks, dictionaries, books, magazines, reference
books etc Due to its strong presence in the market for more than 126 years Ferozsons has become a household name in Pakistan and the premiere publisher, printer, distributor of books, stationery, supplier and gift items and through its company owned retail outlets. Due to the company’s forward and backward integration and its diversity of operations it is a premier publishing and printing company in Pakistan and enjoys the status of the industry leader in terms of sales, distribution, production capacity, and retail productivity. Publishing and Printing remains the core business of Ferozsons. The company’s brand name continues to command customer loyalty both inside the country and abroad. Today the company has published several titles by authors from all around the world. These include some eminent names specifically from Japan, USA, England, Europe, Turkey as well as other parts of the world. Most of the books are published in English and in the native language, Urdu. Some books are also available in the regional languages of Pakistan. Maximum effort is made to preserve the
culture and heritage of Pakistan which is a beautiful country. In this area Ferozsons Coffee Table books have received wide recognition internationally as well as locally. Over the years, these books have gained a wide acceptability in Europe, USA, UK and GCC where the company’s exports are concentrated. Children and reference books remain to be one of the company’s main priority areas. In the publishing profession, the quality of people makes all the difference. The company has a qualified and experienced team of editors,
artists, graphic designers and layout specialists to complement the works of their authors. These individuals have strong technical and professional skills and make all efforts to produce good quality books. Pakistan’s oldest and most widely circulated children magazine ‘Taleem-o-Tarbiat’ is also a publication of Ferozsons since 78 years .From the very beginning of Ferozsons the company’s philosophy has applied: A highquality product means a permanent challenge. This is why we don’t just develop new books and products, but always visions as well innovative solutions focusing upon the requirements of our customers. We are never fully satisfied with what we have achieved. We attend constantly to the continuing development of our company, our products and our service to the advantage of the customer . In order to fulfill our high standards, on the one hand we have always given priority to supporting the continuing training of our
employees and on the other hand ongoing investments in the most recent technology. Thus, for example, we no longer offer the usual products found on the market. Instead, we visualize and design innovative quality books ourselves according to the required specifications and are certain that in this way we have achieved decisive competitive advantages. Today, our quality of content is
seen even by our competitors as exemplary in this respect. Some of the projects have taken us many years of constant hard work to produce positive results e.g. dictionaries, encyclopedias, school
textbooks, maps and work on many such innovative products is underway. The implementation of our publishing projects is subject to a rigorous quality management system in accordance with international standards from planning, through manufacture, up to delivery and guarantees optimal solutions with the Ferozsons seal of quality.

Ferozsons Team and the Office Environment

As a company under the directorship of the owners, we are independent and able to react with the greatest flexibility to the constantly growing requirements of the market. We further have a dynamic working atmosphere characterized by openness and team spirit. The company has a rich human resource of one of the most talented individuals of the country. Blending their extremely diverse backgrounds with numerous years of experience, these employees are the main asset of the company. Recently we have developed an inhouse MIS system and established our inhouse IT department which has worked on development of our MIS using latest web technologies. By the development of new IT and communication technologies, the creation of office networks, customer orders information is available on click of a mouse.

Bookselling & Distribution

Ferozsons products have become an inherent part of life in Pakistan. All Ferozsons products are sold at the company’s own retail outlets and are also wholesaled directly to other retailers and superstores. There are no intermediaries involved. Ferozsons own marketing network supports retail outlets that stock the company’s products. This network distributes the company’s products across all four provinces of the country to more than 28 main cities and more than 300 locations. The
company’s nationwide retail sales network is spread over all the four major cities of the country i.e. six in Lahore, one in Karachi, and one each in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and
Islamabad. All of these stores are a full-service operation. Employees display a gift for arranging and displaying the ware and for excellent service.These outlets carry more than 50,000 items
including books, stationery, magazine, maps, cards and gift items. Continuous effort is made to add new products to meet the changingneeds of business and consumers. These products are procured both locally as well as imported from abroad. In response to diversifying customer needs, Ferozsons is actively pursuing such measures as working with retail outlets to support the necessary shifts in business strategies, restructuring distribution networks, and strengthening information gathering and ordering systems. Therefore, Ferozsons is
promoting the creation of its product corners at many such stores especially in the city of Lahore and Karachi, with plans for Islamabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Quetta and Peshawar in the near future. The most modern possibilities for communication will enable us to react in the shortest possible time to the needs of our customers. We are always there for you!

Ferozsons – A Printing Company

Since the setting up of its first book printing press at Chohatay Mufti Baqar in 1894 Ferozsons has continuously endeavoured to improve its performance, profitability, efficiency and reduced lead time and has also integrated backward with a fully integrated in-house printing setup. In 1971 it moved to our present location on the Empress Road (Shahrah e Abdul Hameed bin Badees) from Circular Road premises outside of Sheranwala Gate where it had moved from inside the walled city in 1904. Further expansion is underway at our Raiwind Road project with a built up area of
170,000 sq. ft. Starting from pre-press to post-production and idea conceptualization to the production of the final product, everything is done under one
roof. Ferozsons Printing & Packaging Division, besides printing the companys’ own publications, also provides printing service in following areas of offset & digital printing:

Digital Printing

• Summer Vacations Assignment Printing-Variable Data Printing (VDP)
• Question Papers Printing-Variable Data Printing ((VDP)
• Short Run Book on Demand Printing
• Thesis Printing
• School Fee Challan Printing-Variable Data Printing(VDP)
• Mobile Phone Bill Printing-Variable Data Printing (VDP)
• Utility Bill Printing – Variable Data Printing(VDP)

Offset Printing Service

Annual Reports, Brochure, Leaflet, Flyer, Magazine, Business / Visiting Card, Textbook, Poster, Label, Book, Dictionary, Educational
Aids, Packaging, Postpaid Phone Bill, Utility Bill Printing – (Water/Gas/Electricity) The printing press operates on world’s leading
brand machinery and the most technically sophisticated equipment resulting in excellence and high product quality. The team at the printing press is equipped withthe most advanced and recent technologies and skills. Ferozsons specializes in the process, printing and finishing of paper and paper-board insheets and reels and the major fields of activities are:

• Soft and hard cover books, 
• Commercial work including brochures etc.,
•  Magazines  Calendars and diaries
• Directories ictionaries,
• Quality packaging

List of Printing Machinery
Pre-Press

•  Chromograph 3400 Drum Scanner
• Herkules / Linotronic Imagesetters (2)
• Kalle Printing Down Frame
• Dainippon Film Dispenser
• Howson Plate Processor
• Howson Plate Baking Oven
• Nikon Digital Camera D100 with several lenses
• Fuji CTP Luxel 9600
  The sheet-fed/perfecting printing department has several 1, 2, 4 & 8 colour offset machines to be installed at our new premises for commercial work and packaging.
• Guillotines / 3-Knife Trimmers
• Polar Guillotines (5)
• Wohelnberg (1)
• RPM & other Cutting Guillotines (8)
• Pivano 3-Knife Trimmers (2)
• Polar Joggers (2)
• Folding Machines for Paper
• Stahl Folding Machine (Round pile continuous feeder)(4)
• Stahl Folding Machine (High pile feeder) (4)
• MBO Folding Machine (Round pile continuous feeder)
• Herzog Heyman Folding Machine (Round pile c/feeder)
• Polygraph Round pile continuous feeder
• Guk Folding Machine

Sheet Fed Offset Printing Presses

• Size in mm No. of Col.
• Roland 708 (under installation) 740 x 1040 8-col
• Solna 525 480 x 640 5-col
• Roland Parva RVP2C 635 x 915 4-col
• Roland Favorit 520 x 720 4-col
• Heidelberg SORDZ (2) 635 x 915 2-col
• Heidelberg SORM 520 x 740 2-col
• Planeta Super Variant (Perfector) 720 x 1020 2-col
• Roland Miller Tp94 650 x 940 2-col
• Roland Rekord RZK 3BE (2 nos) 720 x 1020 2-col
• Roland Miller TP 104 720 x 1020 2-col
• GTO Printmaster 520 x 360 2-col
• Aurelia 765 x 1100 1-col
• Heidelberg SORD 635 x 915 1-col
• Rota (2 nos) 345 x 435 1-col
• Royobi Model 480KA 360 x 480 1-col

Web Fed Offset Printing Presses

•  Color / News King Webs with 578 mm cut off 4-col
• 8 units 1+1 & 4 folders with quarter fold at 20,000 sph
• Solna Web-30 with 3 units 1+1 & 560 mm cut off 9-col 1 unit 2+1 with quarter & double parallel folder at 30,000 sph
• Timson (Jr) with 3 wet offset 4-col + 1 dry offset variable size units reel to zig zag
• Timson (M) with 3 wet offset units 6, 8, 12, 24 3-col
• reel to reel & reel to zig zag
• Stahl SBP 40 Presser Stacker
• Amal Splicers

Finishing & Binding Machines

The finishing department consists of die-cutter/ folders for packaging products – folding, gathering, 3-knife trimmers and thread-sewing machines for printed forms, saddle-stitching and perfect binding machines plus a wide range of ancillary equipment.

•  Guillotines / 3-Knife Trimmers
• Polar Guillotines (5)
• Wohelnberg (1)
• RPM & other Cutting Guillotines (8)
• Pivano 3-Knife Trimmers (2)
• Polar Joggers (2)
• Folding Machines for Paper
• Stahl Folding Machine (Round pile continuous feeder)(4)
• Stahl Folding Machine (High pile feeder) (4)
• MBO Folding Machine (Round pile continuous feeder)
• Herzog Heyman Folding Machine (Round pile c/feeder)
• Polygraph Round pile continuous feeder
• Guk Folding Machine

Perfect / Gum Bound / Soft-Cover Binding

Our installed capacity in saddle stitching and perfect binding with hot/cold glue has been raised substantially with the installation of the following machines:

• Muller Martini Starbinder with 33 stations gatherer
  equipped with complete interchangeable hot and cold
  glue pots with production at 6000 copies per hour
• Muller Martini Amigo Binder with hot glue pot at 1500
  copies per hour

Muller Martini Baby Pony Perfect Binder with cold/hot
glue pot at 1500 copies per hour

Saddle Stitcher for Soft-Cover Binding

•  Muller Martini Saddle Stitcher with 6 Stations Gatherer & 3 Knife Trimmer at working speed of 7,000 books per hour
• Muller Martini, Saddle Stitcher at Raiwind Road
• Linotype Trim Stitch Saddle Stichers with 6 Stations each at working speed of 5,000 books per hour (2)
• Stitching Machines Acme / Hohner Favorit wire stitching (8)

Hard Cover Binding Misc

•  Book Sewing Machines (2)
• Angel Corner cutting Machine(1)
• Board Cutting Machines (1)
• Spine Cutting Machine (1)
• Ancillary Equipment
• Lamination Machine (2)
• Bronzing Machine
• Roller Washing Machine
• Knife Grinding Machine
• Hot Shrink Wrapping Machine
• Strapomats, Wire Bundler for Books / Magazines etc.
• Mercedes Flatbed D 460 x 585 mm
• Linotype News Master Hand / Battery Operated Lifter
  for Paper
• Conveyor System with Straight Tables and Turning
  Devices
• Clark Lifter for Paper / Board Reels and Pallets
  complete with
• Heavy Duty Clamping Device
• Folding & Gluing/Die-Cutting Machines
• Bobst Folding & Gluing Machine
• Bobst Cutting & Creasing Machine
• Heidelberg Cutting & Creasing Machine
• Kerma Platen C&C
• Drilling & Rule Bending Machines
• Paper/Board Sheeter
  Paper/Board Rewinder

For us the customer comes first. Our specialist
teams work with the same zeal and produce
excellent results with consistent quality.

CEO-Zaheer Salam

The saga of Ferozsons spanning a period of one hundred and eleven years and extending over five generations is a story of dedicated and fruitful effort in the realms of publishing, printing and book-selling.Following the guidelines set by its illustrious founder Al-Haj Maulvi Feroz-ud-Din, the Company has blazed new trails as pioneers in the respective fields, setting new standards and scaling new heights.From a very modest and humbly start in 1894 the Company has steadily advanced from heritage to destiny, and has come to acquire the stature of a national institution dedicated to the advancement of education, and the enrichment of culture, through the its publishing activities.Presently, the Company’s operations include publishing, printing, retailing and a large distribution network.Due to the Company’s forward and backward integration and its diversity of operations it has become a premier publishing house and enjoys the status of industry leader in terms of sales, distribution and market share.