It rebranded to become XIC in 2006. Managing director Murray Alexander and business development director Jason Moir took over the business earlier this year.

Where are you based? 

XIC's headquarters have always been in Scotland’s granite city, Aberdeen, however we’ve had an additional presence in Edinburgh since 1999

How many staff do you have?

19

What does your firm do? 

Our services span three core capabilities: design, print and digital. For some, we create concepts from scratch across a variety of media. Others may use only one service, such as print, while others outsource their entire reprographics requirements to us

Which areas do you serve?

Mainly throughout Scotland

Which markets do you serve? 

XIC has grown up alongside the North Sea energy industry and we count many of the major international players within our client base. We also enjoy strong relationships with local councils, educational establishments, the automotive industry and many retail and C2C businesses. XIC also works with selected local third-sector organisations

What’s your USP?

An in-house design team means that we have a genuine creative capability that is of tremendous importance to many of our clients. We believe we were the first printer in Scotland to install Apple Mac workstations back in 1987

What equipment do you run?

New Ricoh colour and mono digital presses, including the top-of-the-range Pro C series and wide-format printing technology. We also run a five-colour Heidelberg sheetfed press; a real workhorse that has produced in excess of 80 million sheets in its lifetime. Plus a vast array of offline finishing equipment. 

What’s your team’s favourite biscuit?

Jaffa Cakes