Matthew Espe

MALVERN, PA—In a move aimed at reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving operating income, IKON Office Solutions is exiting the business document services (BDS) game. The BDS was one of three IKON sectors to be impacted. IKON will trim the number of legal document services sites from 82 to 65, and has sold substantially all of its operations in Mexico. IKON will also eliminate approximately 1,500 company jobs throughout North America. The move to abandon BDS—a provider of off-site document management solutions for businesses, including outsourced digital printing and fulfillment services—resulted from the continued industry commoditization, according to IKON. In the end, the company felt

The Queen's Award for the overseas sales of book printing presses was presented to Timsons Ltd. at a ceremony at the company's UK headquarters recently. It was attended by all of the company's employees and almost 100 guests. After the reading of the citation, the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Lady Juliet Townsend, presented a scroll to Timsons' Managing Director Peter Brown and a commemorative engraved rose bowl to Jane Brown, director and granddaughter of the company founder. Polly USA, previously the independent distributor with the exclusive right to market Polly sheetfed offset presses in the United States and Canada, has been acquired by the