Cenveo

Commercial printer company and personnel news from Printing Impressions' February 2010 edition.

STAMFORD, CT—Cenveo Inc. has informed the department of labor in Maryland that it plans to close its facility in Baltimore by Feb. 26, the Baltimore Business Journal reported. The move with leave 115 employees without jobs. PI Weekly reported last week that Cenveo plants in Virginia and Nebraska were also in the process of shutting down, impacting 180 workers combined.

Cenveo plans to shutter its Baltimore commercial printing plant, a move impacting 115 employees, according to a notice filed by the company with the state.

STAMFORD, CT—Cenveo is closing printing facilities in Charlottesville, VA, and Omaha, NE, resulting in the loss of about 180 employees in all. The former LexisNexis plant in Charlottesville, obtained by Cenveo in 2007 as part of its acquisition of Cadmus Communications, is shutting down today, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported. That facility employed 61.

The former LexisNexis printing plant on Carlton Ave. (Charlottesville, VA) is shutting its doors, putting 61 employees out of work, according to a corporate filing with the Virginia Employment Commission.

The value of all GPO work awarded during this period was $425 million compared to $421 million awarded in 2008. Work done by the top 50 suppliers was valued at $270 million during 2009 compared to $287 million in 2008.

CHAMBERSBURG, PA—There is a new king in the world of government printing and, appropriately enough, the current top earner for procuring the most work with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) had to overthrow a Monarch in the process.

Of the more than 1,800 printers that obtained GPO work during Fiscal Year 2009, NPC (News Printing Co.) of Claysburg, PA, received the most work with $29 million awarded to it.

The purpose of the society is to recognize and honor industry leaders who have made lasting contributions to the printing and graphic communications industries.

The salary excesses in the financial/investment banking world that fueled widespread public outrage, however, won't be found among the earnings of principal officers at the largest publicly held printing companies.