Shareholders in JSC Preses Nams today elected a new Supervisory Council for the company, which will include new members of the Supervisory Council Raivis Veckāgans, Raitis Nešpors, Dace Kaņepe and Armands Puče, while Lilita Seimuškāne will continue her work on the Supervisory Council.

Former members who have now left the Supervisory Council are Ilva Purēna, Normunds Staņēvičs, Jānis Blaževičs and Andris Uzuleņš. The first meeting of the newly elected Supervisory Council is planned for Monday, Jaunary 26, when the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Council as well as the Management Board are to be elected.

JSC Preses nams is the largest printing concern in the Baltic States and the leader in the sector in that region. In the summer of 2008, JSC Preses nams opened its new book printing facility in the village of Silakrogs in the Riga District. Total investments in the facility amounted to LVL 13.5 million, which makes the company one of the 300 largest enterprises in this area in the world. Each month JSC Preses nams prints some 150 different magazines and 70 different newspapers. It also prints hundreds of millions of labels a year. The largest shareholder of JSC Preses nams is LASCO Investment, a daughter company of JSC Latvijas kuģniecība, which owns 95.4% of the share capital.