New York, NY May 31, 2006 YAMAGATA Singapore won the 2006 International Quality Summit Award at the Marquis Convention Hall on May 14th. Sponsored by Business Initiative Directions (BID), the award recognizes YAMAGATA for its commitment to quality, leadership, technology and innovation.

Serina Chia, YAMAGATA Singapore general manager, received the award. Hideo Hayashi, YAMAGATA Singapore managing director, was also present at the ceremony.
Throughout the year, BID conducts polls to help determine International Quality Summit Award winners based on several factors outlined in the Total Quality Management program. Winners must:

Established in 1906, YAMAGATA Corporation is the largest technical publishing and printing company serving manufacturing businesses in Asia. From its global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, YAMAGATA Corp. offers a wide range of services, including technical writing, desktop publishing, translation and localization, 3D animation, printing, Web-based content development, and e-learning.

YAMAGATA Corp. recently celebrated its 100 birthday. Over the years, the printing industry has experienced major technology breakthroughs, and YAMAGATA has kept pace at every step. Its first printer was a letterpress, which is one of the earliest methods of printing text on paper. In 1978, offset printing was adopted. Today, the company produces over 15 million manuals around the world every month at both off-set and digital printing facilities.

Thanks to its group companies around the world, YAMAGATA Corp.’s advanced distributed printing network can produce documents at a client’s final destination, saving considerable time and money. YAMAGATA also offers full localization services and translation in more than 40 different languages. This level of global savvy is critical for international companies with engineering, sales and marketing facilities located around the world. YAMAGATA lets companies think globally, while acting locally.

YAMAGATA group companies now use the YAMAGATA name to more accurately describe how they serve clients. At 31 locations in eight different countries, they work as a team to provide international companies with full service print-on-demand, content management, and logistics support throughout Asia, Europe and the United States – all from a single point of contact. YAMAGATA group companies include:

About YAMAGATA AMERICA

YAMAGATA America Inc. is the North American business arm of YAMAGATA Corporation, a global company based in Yokohama, Japan. With full publishing and printing services in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, YAMAGATA America can print, warehouse and deliver documents to any location around the world. Services include complete print-on-demand and logistics support for developing manuals, user guides, brochures and Web sites. YAMAGATA America headquarters is located at 9449 Balboa Ave., Suite 101, San Diego, CA 92123. For more information, please call (858) 751-1010 or visit the Web site at www.yamagataamerica.com.