Commercial printing industry news briefs, including items on Inco Graphics, PRINTSouth, Edwards Brothers, Cenveo, Hammer Packaging, AbitibiBowater, RR Donnelley, Harvey-Hauser Press and Boomer's Printing.
AlphaGraphics
From menus printed on polyester to marketing pieces with visual highlights, print providers—including AlphaGraphics, Cornerstone Copy Center and Turbo Press—report capturing new, lucrative jobs with Xerox Corp.’s Color 800/1000 presses and its after sale business development support.
LINCOLN, NE—Boomer's Printing, a fixture here for nearly a century, has merged operations with Cornerstone Printing & Imaging, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sales growth through September for individual centers stands at about 4 percent, with the prior six months’ sales up almost 8 percent over the same period last year. “Almost 30 percent of our network grew sales by more than 15 percent over the past six months compared to the same six months in 2009.”
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news, featuring Finch Paper, from Printing Impressions' September 2010 edition.
Ten others, including Printing Impressions Publisher Dave Leskusky, will be inducted into the Soderstrom Society, which recognizes the contributions of industry leaders.
Like the the swallows returning to Capistrano or the L.A. Lakers reaching the NBA finals, Chuck Stempler can be counted on to make his annual pilgrimage. Come fall, the president and CEO of AlphaGraphics Seattle can be found in the Mecca of U.S. printing trade shows: Chicago's McCormick Place for GRAPH EXPO.
The expo is expected to bring over 150 vendors and more than 600 franchisees from both networks together.
Today, there are AlphaGraphics franchises in the United States, Brazil, China, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
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