Vizibility announced it will give free NFC Mobile Wallet Cards to the first 150,000 customers who buy Moo.com or Vistaprint business cards from its website. The durable, tear-proof plastic cards are the size of a credit card and include a personal QR code.
Vistaprint President and CEO Robert Keane is said to have written the first business plan for the company in the bedroom of his Paris student apartment in 1994. The ideas committed to paper centered on providing small businesses with customizable, printed marketing materials in small quantities and for good prices. Since its 2003 start, the company today has grown revenue to more than US$1 billion annually.
To reinvigorate the company's existing customer base, the company is targeting the following improvements: faster shipping, simplified pricing, reduced email frequencies, higher quality product substrates over the next several years, among others.
Vistaprint has introduced a new line of customizable promotional products that businesses can uniquely brand and give to customers to use in their every-day lives. It allows customers to order in small quantities, avoid costly setup and upload fees and receive their order in as little as three business days.
Vistaprint’s revenue for the fourth quarter grew to $250.4 million, a 20 percent increase over revenue of $208.8 million reported in the same quarter a year ago. Its operating income in the quarter totaled $5.1 million, a 70 percent decrease compared to operating income of $17.0 million in the same quarter a year ago.
VistaPrint, a provider of online printing and marketing materials for small businesses, is severing ties with Wendy Cebula, the company’s chief operating officer and the head of its North American business units. Reasons for the move were not disclosed, although the announcement follows a precipitous decline in VistaPrint's operating income during the nine months ended March 31.
VistPrint said the “transition agreement” with Cebula was finalized June 29. According to regulatory filings, Cebula stands to receive $906,000 in cash compensation and another $20,000 in “welfare benefits” from the company if she is terminated without cause or for good reason,
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ July 2012 edition, including items on Vistaprint, RR Donnelley, Tidewater Direct, QuadDirect, Cenveo and Hiedelberg.
Vistaprint was one of more than 400 companies to qualify for consideration based on a two-stage nomination process and the results of employee-satisfaction surveys taken throughout March and April. It moved up five spots to #17 on the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts ranking in the large-company category for 2012.
RADEBEUL, GERMANY—Online printer Unitedprint.com and its subsidiary, print24 GmbH, has claimed final judgment victory in a German Provincial High Court against Vistaprint. It reaffirms a 2010 verdict reached by the Dresden District Court that determined Vistaprint had gained a competitive advantage through unfair competition practices.
The final judgment of the Provincial High Court in Dresden, Germany, rules in favor of Unitedprint.com and its subsidiary company, print24 GmbH, in a dispute against Vistaprint over unfair competition practices. The amount in dispute was set at €170,000.
Vistaprint’s standard business card will now be printed on 110-lb. paper stock, resulting in a 40 percent heavier card. The company also will be altering the backside messaging on its free business cards to “Build Your Business at Vistaprint.com.”
