Vicki Keenan

NEW YORK—Los Angeles may have its festive Academy Awards gala, but the Big Apple can lay claim to the annual Franklin Event, hosted by the Printing Industries Alliance (PIA). More than 500 people packed Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on September 10 to pay tribute to this year’s printing, publishing and advertising luminaries.

NEW YORK—Hammer Packaging’s James Hammer will receive the Power of Communications Award for Printing at the 2008 Franklin Event, to be held September 10 at Chelsea Piers in the Big Apple. The Franklin Event will attract about 500 CEOs and senior executives from the printing, publishing, advertising and graphic arts-related industries. During the gala, the prestigious Franklin Award for Distinguished Service will be given, though event host Printing Industries Alliance (PIA) would not divulge the recipient. Also receiving Power of Communications Awards for other sectors are Ken Lantz, DRAFTFCB-New York (advertising), and Tom Fox, American Express Publishing/Time Inc. (publishing). Winner of the John Peter

NEW YORK—The Association for Graphic Communications (AGC), which aided Big Apple printers in the days and months following September 11, 2001, but found its own survival impossible due to huge debt and high rent, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy today. The AGC’s board and executive committee made the decision in early January to end the 140-year-old PIA affiliate, after attempts to negotiate some relief with creditors were rebuffed, the AGC said in a letter to association members. Growing, aged payables also factored into the association’s decision to file. The AGC office has been shuttered and its entire staff laid off. With the filing, AGC will have

NEW YORK—The Association for Graphic Communications (AGC), which aided Big Apple printers in the days and months following September 11, 2001, but found its own survival impossible due to huge debt and high rent, has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy, the AGC announced in a letter to association members. The AGC’s board and executive committee made the decision in early January to shut down the 140-year-old PIA affiliate, after attempts to negotiate some relief with creditors were rebuffed. Growing, aged payables also factored into the association’s decision to file. “There were a lot of long nights spent discussing how to work things out,” noted Joseph

NEW YORK—The affects felt by Manhattan-area printers, as well as all metro area companies, following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers were, to say the least, devastating. According to Vicki Keenan, vice president of public affairs for the Association of Graphic Communications (AGC), the PIA affiliate representing New York City and northern New Jersey, upwards of 30 area printers have been greatly affected in the aftermath of the attacks. Those most impacted are located on Canal Street, as well as the Hudson/Varick areas, and those based near the foot of the Holland Tunnel. She noted that the AGC hasn't

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