ACROSS the nation

FLINT—At marketing support services firm TGI Direct, 18 employees participated in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's weight-loss program. TGI won the weight-loss competition in the category of 11 to 29 participating employees by losing a total of 187 pounds.

MINNESOTA

MINNEAPOLIS—The John Roberts Co. has successfully completed a SAS70 Type II audit through LarsonAllen, which ensures the system integrity and security of all of the hosted data for its customers within the financial and health care industries.

MISSOURI

KANSAS CITY—Package printer Allied Litho purchased a six-color, 56˝ manroland Roland 900 sheetfed press with UV coater, its second Roland 900 press in less than three years.

NEVADA

LAS VEGAS—Publishing solutions provider Creel Printing has entered into a multi-year, multiple-edition 
contract with Daily Racing Form (publisher of the country's only daily newspaper dedicated to a single sport: horse racing). The contract spans front-end processing through the distribution of seven of the company's tabloids.

NEW JERSEY

SEACACUS—To meet demand for four-color, short-run printing on coated media, Strategic Content Imaging (SCI), a Command Web company, has acquired a 30˝ HP T300 color inkjet web press as the centerpiece of its 
on-demand printing operation.

NEW YORK

ALBANY—Fort Orange Press and The Pressroom have formed a strategic alliance to consolidate offset printing operations in the Fort Orange Press facility here, while maintaining digital production at The Pressroom's location in Ballston Spa.

AMITYVILLE—Envelopes.com, a 40-year-old, online envelope and printing company formerly known as Action Envelope, has moved to its first company-owned facility. The new, 35,000-square-foot operation is almost double the size of its former location.

GREEN ISLAND—Since acquiring a new four-color Komori Lithrone S29 sheetfed press with coater, the New York State Bar Association is able to keep more work in-house and experience a faster time-to-market.