BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Owning/managing a commercial printing or digital printing operation brings challenges, be it
common business issues such as profitability, employee benefits, staffing and succession planning
or industry-specific ones like declining print volumes, over capacity and industry consolidation.
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Taylor Corporation: All in the Cards
Taylor Corporation is a global operation with 9,000 employees spread across Canada, Mexico, France, the United Kingdom, China and 21...
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Mimeo.com has Jobs in Memphis, but It is Struggling to Find Qualified Workers
If there's a downside to growing 25-30 percent a year, digital printing company Mimeo.com says it's a seemingly endless search...
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A Woman’s Touch
When Kim Dwyer was hired at Dayton, Ohio-based International Business Solutions Alliance, she was asked if she was prepared to...
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Running in Both Directions
Global sales of packaging-related print from digital print-on-demand and wide format presses reached $1.95 billion in 2009 and are expected...
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Joe Davis Develops Future Leaders at Consolidated Graphics
He developed the Leadership Development Program to speed college grads through an accelerated path to management...
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Up to Speed
The competition has nothing on Boston-headquartered 48hourprint.com. ...
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Mergers and Acquisitions : M&A’s Class Struggle
Can we expect to see more of the same merger activity as 2010 marches on? Judging by the reaction... -
Slow Economy? Try Oddball Markets
While many salespeople are weary after the recession sent revenues plummeting and businesses struggling to do more with less, Don...
More On Business Management
Top Book Manufacturers : Printers Adapt by Following the Market
May 2010Whether it says more about recent positive trends or just how awful 2009 was, one thing every printer seems to agree on is that things...
Establishing Budgeted Hourly Rates Boosts Competitiveness
April 2010
To understand the true cost of a print job or communications campaign, in-plants need to account for salaries, equipment leases, power use and building rent,...
Best of the Best: 2010 Top Wide-Format Print Providers
April 1, 2010No matter what industry you were in, 2009 was one of the most difficult years in recent history. We saw record numbers of unemployment, the...
State of the Industry: Print and Packaging
March 2010
Where will the U.S. economy, print, and packaging trend over the course of 2010 and 2011? The answer to this question depends on the exact...
Still Fit to Print
March 2010
It's been a tough year for printers, and Publishing Executive 's annual "Top Magazine Printers" list ( opposite page ) is a stark indicator...
Offsetting Losses: Printers Look Past the Press for Innovative Ways to Help Publishers Across Media
March 5, 2010Considering the state of the economy in general, and print media in particular, this is certainly not the worst time to be negotiating a new...
Managing Multiple Businesses
April 6, 2010Hamilton Chan leveraged the cash flow, employee experience, and credibility of Charlie Chan Printing, founded in 1969, to boost his startup—online stationery seller Paperspring.com....
Offsetting Losses: Printers Look Past the Press for Innovative Ways to Help Publishers Across Media
March 5, 2010Considering the state of the economy in general, and print media in particular, this is certainly not the worst time to be negotiating a new...
Legislation Impacting Printers : Topping the Agenda
January 2010
Overview of the top five pressing legislative issues of interest to printers, along with a look at what's being done from an advocacy standpoint....
Commercial Printing Outlook : Forecasting a U-turn
December 2009In the vernacular of economists, the outlook is for the United States to continue seeing a "U"-shaped recovery from the Great Recession. While the economy...
