Seven generations of transformation. The next one is AI.

On the last day of 1790, a journeyman printer sent from the Hildesheim guild married the widow who had kept her late brother’s bookbindery alive in Bodenwerder on the Weser. Their marriage contract became a founding document. For five generations the Pigge family bound books and then printed them, until 1943, when the designated heir fell in the war and his sister Ingeborg married Richard Borek, a stamp dealer from Braunschweig. In 1950 Richard loaded two presses onto a furniture van and moved the business into his own house on the Domplatz.

A web-offset press imported from the United States turned Pigge into a forms printer; under Henning Borek, who joined at 25 in 1974, it became the largest in northern Germany, with more than 400 employees after reunification. Yet each success carried the seed of the next disruption: laser printers ended continuous forms, so the family moved into direct marketing; digital advertising eroded that, so in 2006 all ten offset presses were sold and the company reinvented itself in digital print, logistics and lottery tickets, where it led the German market.

The decisive pivot came in 2013, when Henning and his youngest son Konstantin founded a data-processing company in India, whose first customer was Konstantin’s own Hong Kong start-up. Konstantin took over in 2016, also at 25, steered the print business through a hard restructuring and handed it on in 2021 after 231 years of printing. Today the Borek Solutions Group, led by Konstantin with his sister Viktoria, employs more than 200 experts in Braunschweig, Prishtina, Plovdiv and Vadodara, runs its own AI Suite and Academy, and is its clients’ AI department: delivered, not built.