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Publishing, Government & Outdoor — have a broad array of customers encompassing global and local publishers, government departments and agencies, global media companies, advertising agencies, large corporate enterprises and small-to-medium sized businesses.

Our focus is unashamedly on technology – today we deliver content in a wide range of formats. From the largest billboard you can imagine, the latest book from Penguin, ebooks, the Federal Budget; and delivering all this via our inhouse IPALM system which manages online each customer’s needs.

Our logo, ‘Content, faster, smarter ’ is a great description of how we are positioned today and for tomorrow.

In this newsletter, you’ll see how our technology and Asia Pacific network plays a significant and growing part in delivering content faster than ever before and much more productively.

As well as owning the leading consumer and specialist printing businesses, the OPUS Group also has the largest outdoor printing businesses in Australia and also New Zealand, plus the leading business in Canberra offering electronic and printed content, logistics and marketing services.

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The OPUS Group is a technology based integrated business services and

solutions group of companies thathas successfully expanded to

become one of the leading specialist players in the Asia Pacific region

with operations in Australia,New Zealand and Singapore.

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NEWBUSINESS

UPDATE

GOOD FOOD GUIDES FOR FAIRFAX.

The order involves 6 titles encompassing Good Food, Café & Bar Guides with a total of 210,000 books ata value of $350,000.

A key initative we undertook to enable us to compete was to convince the client to amend the trim size for the Café and Bar Guides to enable us to print on a larger sheet size and pass on a price advantage.

INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTS.

A new category of print product has been intro-duced in Singapore with OPUS securing acatalogue account worth $250,000. An Australian owned company with a major footprint in theAutomotive Industry in supplying lighting & electrical parts, until now they have always printed their catalogues

in Australia but needed to reduce costs and subsequently sought bids from Asianproducers.

OPUS won the busi-ness as we can manage the relationship locally while saving money by producing in our lower cost based facility in Singapore – a win win!

OPUS CAN.

OPUS Group was selected to produce the material for the Commonwealth Bank’s recent CAN’T / CAN outdoor advertising campaign.

The campaign had two phases, the initial teaser phase, which was launched on Sunday 20 May with a series of outdoor advertisements displaying the simple yet powerful message

- CAN’T, but with no identification of the Commonwealth Bank.A week later theCommonwealth Bankreplaced the ‘T’ in CAN’T with its diamond logo on all the advertising.

Nigel Spicer, General Manager of CactusImaging said it had been a significant con-tract for OPUS Group, with over 16,600m2

produced in thiscampaign. “Given the teaser phase of the campaign, we had to sign a confidentiality agreement, so there was an element of trust in our involvement with the client.”

Mr Spicer said,“Our team produced outstanding work in terms of colour and accuracy on creative executions and we had excellent feedbackfrom our client”.

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OPUS HAS HAD A NUMBER OF WINS IN RECENT MONTHS.

One of our major clients is now using our print-on-demand technology so they can have books faster into stores to meet the instant gratification of consumers and take advantage of the sudden popularity of some titles.

Faster dispatch and lower holding costs are a by-product of the new technology that OPUS now has with the HP ink jet machinery and other digital equipment.

MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT.

Omnigraphics NZ has won a multi-million dollar contract to

supply Hypermedia Group, a specialistin-store media company in New Zealand.

Omnigraphics has become the production partner of Hypermedia Group which represents 159 Countdown Supermarket stores within New Zealand and manages everything from floor graphics and promotional shelf advertising through to in-store radio and product demonstrations.

COMBINING OUR SINGAPOREAND AUSTRALIAN STRENGTH.

OPUS offers the best of ‘on’ or ‘off’ shore. Our strong global relationships with most of the world’s largest publishers place OPUS in a unique position to deliver content when and where it is required.

Recently Wiley Australia, a leading educational publisher, produced with us a range of products in our Singapore facility, an opportunity gained via our strong Australian relationship.

Whilst Singapore can produce quickly and efficiently, when time is at a premium, our Australian basedfacilities are an important part ofour solution.

With one of our major strategic clients, Oxford University Press(OUP) we recently produced over $1 million of new school curriculum titles. This allowed OUP a speed to market advantage backed by the OPUS guaranteeof on time, in full delivery.

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PRINTERHP ProLiant DL360/380,BL 460 Servers;Up to 60 terabytesof storage per RIP system.

HIGH-SPEED CUSTOMISATION CAPABILITY HP Thermal Inkjet ///

HP THERMAL INKJET600 ft [183m]per minute

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OPUS’ new HP Onyx digital ink jet production line is a first for Australia.

Commissioned in March, the machine is the most sophisticated operating in Australia and is able to produce digitally short and long run books, fully bound and finished ready for distribution. The new machine will be able to service customers requiring short runs, printing on demand and just in time delivery. This will allow customers to save on warehousing costs and to manage

their supply /demand /obsolescence equation more cost effectively.Pressing the ‘green button’ on Onyx, in March was the Federal Industry and Innovation Minister Kate Lundy.

The system was given the name Onyx after the precious stone for a good reason, as it represents renewed value in the publishing supply chain at a time when traditional dynamics of supply and demand in the book industry are undergoing massive transformation.

The way printed books are purchased today is undergoing a revolution. Traditional book publishers are now being challenged by the likes of Apple, Google and Amazon, and the Onyx technology is a great way for OPUS to successfully competeto meet consumer demand.

OPUS has invested $35 million in new capital equipment over the past seven years.

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HP ProLiant DL360/380

BL 460 Servers;Up to 60 terabytesof storage per RIP system

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY &CUTTING EDGE EQUIPMENT

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY &CUTTING EDGE EQUIPMENT

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Richard is focused on OPUS maintaining its position as an industry leader and is working closely with our publishers, understanding and delivering theirneeds on a dailybasis, whilst adding value to both their business and ours.

He is a key driver of the group’s cross-site production

strategy, which ensures the best use of equipment across the OPUS Group to deliver optimal customer outcomes, and driving efficiency and cost savings.

Richard currentlyleads the OPUS Group’s best practice programme, improving operating efficiencies and ensuring industry

leading practice.This includes executing the ‘ lean manufacturing ’ programme.

He co-founded Ligare Australia in 1979 and is a foundation OPUS shareholder.

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FRESH*LEADER /SHIP

THE NEW GENERALMANAGER OF

OPUS AUSTRALIANPRINTING DIVISION IS

RICHARD CELARCWHO HAS A WEALTH OF INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

AND OPERATIONALEXPERIENCE.

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The regional reach means clients can select the best content solution based on product type, run length, timing and location.

Our capability encompasses Singapore,Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Auckland and further global reach via strategic alliances in China, US, and the UK. We also have a strategic partnership in the Philippines for business process outsourcing services.

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REGIONAL STRENGTH

Our offer spans the entire spectrum of published content,from on demand mono and colour digital printing in Australia and New Zealand, to long run offshore printing in Asia where lead time allows.

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SECURITY STATUS / Highest TURN AROUND / 48 hrs

/ e-books

/ e-commerce

/ mail house services

/ warehouse & logistics

/ call center services

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Today, OPUS also offersonline services to

Government Departments beyond traditional

printing, such as e-books, e-commerce, mail house services, warehouse and

logistics, and callcenter services.

“There are 69 documents totaling 15 million pieces of paper.”

Our most treasured job

The recent Federal Budget was printed by OPUS Group in Canberra. Produced in total security, it has a two day turnaround time to coincide with the Australian Treasurer’s Speech. There are 69 documents totaling15 million pieces of paper.

The Australian Federal Budget

I t has to be done right f irst t ime, every t ime and is a prized account which has been entrusted for the last 15 years to CanPrint, an OPUS division. The security, quality, t imeliness and rel iabil i ty of this service has meant

that OPUS has been servicing many Government agencies for over 50 years, including Federal Parl iament, Bureau of Statistics, the Defence Department, the Attorney General’s Department and the National Audit Office.

CanPrint’s reputation continues to help Opus Group grow, and in 2012 we also printed the ACT Government’s Budget in total security and by operating 24 hours per day during the weekend prior to the Budget.

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Lodge Partners has produced the first analystresearch report on OPUS Group since the ASXlisting. Lodge Partners provides a broad rangeof research in small to mid cap companies.

To view the Lodge Partners report go to www.opusgroup.co / investor

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KEY /DATES

30 AUGUST 2012Release of PreliminaryResults for 2012

18 OCTOBER 2012 (approx)

Publication of Annual Reportand Accounts for 2012

22 NOVEMBER 2012Annual General Meeting

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CUTTINGEDGE TECHNOLOGYIPALM is OPUS Group’s innovative way to manage online each customer’s needs. From a single digital platform, IPALM provides a customised suite of business services management tools for our key Group customers. For example, customers can have their content instantly accessed by a group company for delivery to client in the form of periodical, book, e-book or a web page.

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It reduces inventory costs, increases speed to market, rationalises supplier lists, maintains backlist catalogues and reduces forecast risk.

The system gives cus-tomers the ability to sup-port product life cycle from start to finish.IPALM has been de-veloped as a strategic

initiative focused on transforming the commu-nication solutions supply chain and CRM system (customer relationship management system).

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