Outsourcing and Offshoring Study Tour:

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will host a study tour in April to the top outsourcing and offshoring companies in India. The tour will examine outsourcing functions firsthand, including information technology, advertising, graphic design and editorial services.

Sunday, 25 April
Opening night dinner, New Delhi

Monday, 26 April
New Dehli

Morning at the hotel:
Shaping the Future of the Newspapers(SFN)
Introductions, presentation of SFN Outsourcing and Industry research and discussion
Speakers: Martha Stone, director, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper

Late afternoon and evening:
Mindworks
With more than 100 editors, designers and consultants working out of its facility in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, Mindworks provides copy editing, page layout, Ad production and online support services for newspapers and magazines in Asia, Europe and North America. Mindworks pioneered editorial outsourcing and then expanded its services to include Ad production as well.

Express KCS
Express KCS LLC, a U.S.-owned company with production facilities in New Delhi, is India's largest independently owned prepress house. Express KCS has provided newspapers in the U.S. and Europe with production services for about 30 years.

Tuesday, 27 April
Morning flight from New Delhi to Bangalore

Afternoon
Reuters
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest international multimedia news provider touching billions of people every day. Reuters provides unbiased business, financial, national and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, as well as directly to affluent business professionals through Reuters.com and other digital platforms.


Wednesday, 28 April
Bangalore,Chennai, Pune

Morning
Infosys
Infosys is one of the largest and most established global leader in outsourcing from India and offers a complete range of services by leveraging their domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. Their services for the publishing industry includes advertising and circulation accounting, advertising production (creative), desktop publishing, and publishing platform solutions such as our "Newspaper in a Box."

Lunchtime flight to Chennai

Afternoon
2AdPro
2AdPro is one of the largest providers of advertising design services to media companies, advertising agencies and advertisers. The company's
Virtual Studio solution is being used by over 150 newspapers in the US, UK
and other parts of the world.

Flight from Chennai to Pune

Thursday, 29 April
Pune

Morning
Affinity Express
Affinity Express boasts 800 designers, internet-based workflows, 24-hour or less turn times and 24/7 availability; the company offers a comprehensive array of print, online and multimedia campaign advertising, as well as design for marketing materials such as brochures, direct mail, flyers and other collateral.

Speakers:
- Ken Swanson, Chief Executive Officer
- Sunil Garde, President, Affinity Express India
- Hari Menon, Vice President of Operations
- Shailesh Vedpathak, Creative Director

ValueNotes
ValueNotes is a research firm that provides an unbiased information resource to the investment and business communities. The company is located in Pune, India, in the heart of offshoring industry, and recounted the growth of outsourcing in its August 2008 report, "Offshoring by U.S. Newspaper Publishers."



Although offshoring seems to be seeping into business plans everywhere, by no means is growth about to slow down, the research firm reports. The following is an excerpt from the ValueNotes report:

"We estimate the current opportunity to provide offshore services to the newspaper publishing industry in the U.S. and UK to be approximately US$3.5 billion. The current Indian offshore vendor revenues from this segment are valued at $35 million; merely 1 percent of the total opportunity."

Participants will receive a recap of Value Notes' report, included in WAN-IFRA's own detailed report about outsourcing in newspapers around the world.

End of Study Tour

Practical Information
Study Tour language:
English

Registration fee:
Standard price: 6000 Euros
Company/individual members: 5000 Euros

Fee includes:
2 nights'hotel accomodation in New Dehli
1 nights' hotel accomodation in Bangalore
1 nights' hotel accomodation in Pune
3 internal flights, New Dehli - Bangalore, Bangalore-Chennai, Chennai-Pune

Programming, materials, accomodations, meal and ground transport during the tour.