American Reprographics Company

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American Reprographics Company (NYSE: ARP) is the largest reprographics company in the United States, providing business-to-business document management services to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. It also provides these services to companies in other industries that require sophisticated document management services. The company provides its core services through a proprietary suite of reprographics technology products, a nationwide network of locally-branded reprographics service centers, and facilities management programs at customers' locations throughout the country.

Founded in 1988 as a single reprographics firm in Southern California by S. "Mohan" Chandramohan (now Chairman of the Board), the company has grown into a national corporation with 2006 revenues of $591 million.

Corporate headquarters are co-located in Walnut Creek, California.

The company, with more than 40 operating divisions, employs more than 4,500 employees, and serves more than 140,000 customers nationwide. ARC continues to grow through acquisition.

On February 3, 2005, ARC announced pricing of its initial public offering of 13,350,000 shares of common stock at $13.00 per share for gross proceeds of $173,550,000. $92,690,004 of the proceeds went to ARC, $68,711,496 went to selling shareholders.[1]

The technology development wing of American Reprographics Company is Mirror Plus Technologies, based in Fremont, CA and Kolkata, India(http://mirrorplus.com/). This operating division of the company creates software and hardware solutions for the reprographics industry and its customers. ARC has licensed several of their proprietary software solutions to independent reprographers.

Mirror Plus Technologies created the products PlanWell, Pinadmin, BidCaster, Metaprint, Sub-Hub and Abacus — applications aimed at solving problems of the reprographic and construction industries with sharing, transferring and managing printed and digital data.

[edit] Executive members

  • S. Chandramohan, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, American Reprographics Company.
  • K. Suriyakumar, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Reprographics Company
  • Jonathan Mather, Chief Financial Officer, American Reprographics Company
  • Rahul Roy, Founder, President & CEO of MirrorPlus; Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of American Reprographics Company.

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