Leading print professionals, the Paarl Media Group has recently appointed Kelvin Pillay as the new Managing Director of Paarl Media Cape.

Pillay joins the Group from Goodyear South Africa where he held the title of Plant Director and, prior to that, had a history with Murray & Roberts. Pillay has a B.Eng. (Chemical) degree from the University of Pretoria and a MBA from the Business School of the Netherlands.

Paarl Media Cape offers both publication gravure and heatset web offset printing for the production of medium to high volume commercial work, magazines, books and catalogues. Paarl Media Cape is one of 12 specialised printing operations and is renowned for its environmental strategies and systems within the Group.

Pillay takes the reins from Christoff Botha who headed up the Paarl Media Cape plant for over five years. Botha has been promoted to Executive Director: Heatset where he will oversee the Group’s four national heatset plants in the Cape, Paarl, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

“We welcome Kelvin to the Group and we wish both Christoff and him every success in their new roles. We are extremely pleased to have such experienced leadership in our heatset division providing exceptional products and personal service,” says Nico Grobbelaar, Executive Director: Human Resources, Paarl Media.

The heatset plants leadership stands as such that Paul de Bruin has been promoted as the Managing Director of Paarl Media Gauteng. The leadership of Paarl Media KZN has been consolidated under Executive Director, Piet le Roux and Thys de Jager remains as the head of Paarl Media Paarl in his capacity as General Manager.