Archive for November, 2007

4Over Cuts Ribbon on New Dayton Facility, Gives Company Gateway to the East

Monday, November 19th, 2007

On Thursday of last week I was honored to be invited to the official ribbon cutting of 4Over's new 105,000 square foot production facility in the Huber Heights area of Dayton. The space was previously occupied by garment tag and label manufacturer Paxar (now Avery Dennison) who closed the facility ...

Amazon Releases New Wireless Reading Device

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Amazon has debuted its Kindle e-book reader. On first glance the product features trump other systems currently on the market. The Kindle can store over 200 book titles and access newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Irish ...

Accepting NYU’s “Prism” Award, Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black Foresees Solid Future for Print Publishing

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

As the leader of a publishing group comprising 19 magazines with nearly 200 international editions in more than 100 countries, Cathie Black clearly believes in the durability of print. At a New York University awards ceremony in her honor last week (Nov. 14), she predicted that for the next ten ...

Quebecor World Shares Hit All-time Low

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Quebecor World shares dropped 22 percent today closing at $3.12 share. The drop came after the company announced a 750 million refinancing plan on Tuesday in which it outlined steps to: 1. offer approximately Cdn$250 million of its equity shares, consisting of a public offering of Subordinate Voting Shares in Canada ...

USPS Announces Adoption of CPI-based Rate Cap

Friday, November 16th, 2007

The United States Postal Service has announced the Postal Service Governors have decided future pricing to follow guidelines set in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006: The Postal Service Governors announced today future prices will be adjusted using new regulations issued by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on Oct. ...

Print Shop in Iraq Faces Possible Closure by Iraqi Government

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Alive in Baghdad, a weekly news podcast produced by Iraqi journalists has a story on Dar Al-Nahrain, or “The House of Mesopotamia,” a well-known printing and publishing house in Baghdad. According to the report, Dar Al-Nahrain employs 900 Iraqi employees who print currency, passports, and other offical state documents including Al-Sabah, ...

Greenpeace Targets North America’s Largest Paper and Forest Products Company

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

North America's largest paper and forest products company is not only facing a financial crisis, they are finding themselves on the wrong side of the forest management practices debate. AbitibiBowater Inc. the newly formed company resulting form the merger of Abitibi-Consolidated and Bowater Incorporated has found itself the target of ...

Internet Advertising Revenues Sets New High, Surpass $5.2 Billion Q3

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

The IAB reports record growth for Internet advertising in the 3rd quarter: The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or ...

Capital One Europe to Reduce use of Direct Mail, Increase use of Web-based Marketing

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Justin Basini, vice-president and head of brand marketing at Capital One Europe told Marketing Direct's Profiting from Green Policies conference attendees that the direct marketing industry needs to "to clean up its act and improve its impact on the environment, or risk being legislated against and facing a heightened consumer ...

NAA Launches Imagining the Future of Newspapers Blog

Monday, November 12th, 2007

The Newspaper Association of America has launched a new blog. In his welcome, Randy Bennett, vp of Audience and New Business Development writes, "The newspaper industry is in the midst of a wrenching period of transition. As business models, consumer and advertiser behavior and the competitive landscape transform, newspaper companies ...