Business Management - Industry Trends

It’s a little hard to explain how, despite the many years I’ve spent covering print industry events, I never got around to attending an SGIA Expo until I took part in the one that ran in New Orleans last October. To state the obvious, I had no idea of what I was missing. Now I see that I’ve missed a lot - but in light of a major announcement made just before the show, I expect that gap in my knowledge to close very rapidly.

I get so many solicitations that my office staff doesn’t usually even pass them along to me. But this one was different.

In “The Week That Was With Julie G,” brought to you by Printing Impressions, several acquisitions have been completed, and much more.

Few would deny that 2018 is shaping up to be a fraught and contentious year politically. But, it isn’t likely that political news of the headline-grabbing, “breaking” variety is going to have all that much to do with issues of primary concern to the printing industry. Those issues, nonetheless, are real, and the need for printers to understand and engage with them has seldom been more urgent.

The GPO has completed digitization of all historical issues of the Congressional Record dating to March 5, 1873.

Because snacks are frequently the fuel behind this lifestyle, an opportunity has emerged in the packaging industry.

The Ennis board of directors has approved a special one-time bonus to more than 2,200 non-management employees in the amount of $500.00

As 2017 comes to a close, Printing Impressions has taken a look at what stories captured our readers' attention the most this year. We have compiled a list of the top 10 articles from 2017 based on the number of visitors online.

Cory Francer, editor-in-chief of packagePRINTING, Printing Impressions' sister publication, recently sat down with David Luttenberger, Mintel's global packaging director, to discuss the top packaging trends of 2018.

Each year, Constantia Flexibles manufactures packaging for more than 50% of the 150 million chocolate Santa Clauses produced in Germany