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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Podcasts from the Business of Green Media Conference held at the end of January at Cal Poly are now available online. The one day conference hosted by the Graphic Communication Institute of Cal Poly and SustainCommWorld focused on what the graphic communication industry is doing and can do to take ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Too many printers ask the same question over and over: “How come we made money on all our jobs, but lost money at the end of the month?”
The answer is pretty simple: no matter how good your cost sheets look, they’re a poor predictor of financial results. That's because ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Late yesterday - 1/15 - Quebecor World announced that it had failed to meet the first financial hurdle in its push to financial solidarity. A piece in the Globe and Mail on Monday, 1/14, outlined some of the potential results should the banks decline to accept the proposed financing.
In exchange ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Self-publishing service provider Lulu has acquired the PrintOnDemand.com business. The web site was owned by Chuck Surprise and offered weekly news updates about digital printing and a directory of digital print services providers. Currently the site does not offer either of these services. Lulu is using the site as a ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Hopkins Printing of Columbus, Ohio announced today that it has rewarded its employees with a stock ownership plan:
Hopkins Printing has announced the formation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) to recognize its employees' commitment to the company and as a way to advance its sustainable growth.
"As we considered the ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
The Financial Times is reporting that industry sources (probably investment bankers dreaming of putting together a big deal) say HP may take a look again at buying Eastman Kodak:
The rationale is that listed HP, now the world’s biggest computer and printer maker, and listed Kodak, the No. 1 maker of ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is serious business, see today's article on WhatTheyThink.com (Print Brokering, Print Management, Business Process Outsourcing - What's the Difference? - Subscription required). However, BPO can be applied to any number of functions (processes); for example, the process of acquiring a birthday cake for a child. So ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
VistaPrint, a publicly traded online printer, held an event last week for investors - its first annual investors and analysts day. VistaPrint had annual revenue of $152 million in fiscal year 2006 and a current market cap of nearly $1.5 billion. In October, the company reported that revenue in the ...
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