Mumbai-Based Production Facility Provides Offshore Savings, Onshore Convenience

Mumbai, India (February 18, 2004) — Aquent, a global professional services firm that delivers total staffing, executive search, and outsourcing solutions, has launched Aquent Offshore Publishing Services (OPS). Based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, OPS provides a wide range of prepress and electronic publishing solutions at savings of up to 50 percent over onshore.

Aquent offers publishers all of the benefits of offshore production—lower costs, improved product-to-market time frame, and a high-quality workforce—along with the convenience of partnering with an established, onshore organization. Founded in 1986, Aquent has more than sixty local offices worldwide. OPS clients work through a local Aquent representative, conducting business in their own language, currency, and time zone.

“Teaming up with Aquent Offshore Publishing Services is as easy as working with a vendor down the street,” said Kimberly A. Schaefer, Vice President, Offshore Publishing Services. “We take the risk out of the equation, making it both financially smart and logistically simple to take advantage of our services.”

Aquent OPS specializes in large, complicated production projects, with special expertise in school and college textbooks and the Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) field.

Aquent can assume full responsibility for book, journal, and directory production management, or publishers can select from an “a la carte” menu of services, from copy editing and typesetting to graphic design, translations, and coding for electronic publishing.

Ms. Schaefer said the launch of Aquent Offshore Publishing Services was a “natural extension of Aquent’s creative services expertise and seventeen years of experience helping clients improve business outcomes and maximize efficiencies.”

About Aquent
Aquent (aquent.com) is a privately held professional services firm with more than sixty offices worldwide. Aquent focuses on IT and Creative Services, and provides a wide range of consulting, outsourcing, and staffing solutions. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.