WEST CALDWELL, NJ—Ricoh Americas announced that Martin Brodigan will assume the position of president and CEO of Ricoh U.S., a division of Ricoh Americas, effective immediately. Brodigan has been serving as executive vice president and CFO of Ricoh Americas. He previously served as president & CEO of Ricoh Canada.
TOKYO—Ricoh Co. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire IKON Office Solutions through Ricoh’s wholly owned U.S. distribution subsidiary, Ricoh Americas, for approximately $1.62 billion ($17.25 per share). The deal is supported by Ricoh and IKON and has been approved by the board of directors for both organizations.
WEST CALDWELL, NJ—September 22, 2008—Ricoh Americas Corp. announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricoh's Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBG's ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers' specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBG's core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts.
MALVERN, PA--IKON Office Solutions, which recently agreed to be acquired by Ricoh Americas, plans to close 23 of its 71 offices that provide document management products and services to the legal industry. As a result, it will lay off 265 people in the United States and another 50 in Europe. IKON, which filed the move…
Canterbury Closes Its Doors ROME, NY—Employee-owned Canterbury Press closed its doors in July, leaving 42 employees without jobs, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch. The company produced sheetfed commercial work, as well as periodicals. $10M Investment for Royle SUN PRAIRIE, WI—Royle Printing is investing more than $10 million to bolster its operations, including a new 57˝ Goss Sunday 2000 gapless web press. Royle, which serves the publishing and catalog markets, also added a fourth selective binding and mailing system, and is in the process of constructing a 40,000-square-foot addition to its facility here. Quad Invests in Polish Firm SUSSEX, WI—Quad/Graphics and its Warsaw-based holding
Ricoh Revs Up For Graph Expo CHICAGO—More than one year after announcing the formation of its Production Printing Business Group (PPBG) and the development of a high-end, digital color printer, Graph Expo 2008, being held here next month, will mark the official launch and commercial availability of Ricoh Americas’ Pro C900 series. Capable of printing 90 color or black-and-white pages per minute (ppm) with 1,200x1,200 dpi image quality, the Pro C900 is aimed at the commercial and quick printing, copy shop and in-plant environments, as well as service bureaus and direct mailers. With a paper capacity of 11,000 sheets, the device can handle heavy
InfoPrint Solutions Co., a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today announces another step in its on-going program with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council through the formation of the Corporate and Faculty Leadership Committees, in support of a milestone research initiative. These groups of leading marketers, experts, authors and academics will provide insight to support InfoPrint’s commitment to and continual drive to educate the marketplace on the value of TransPromo. The company has also been working in partnership with the CMO Council to launch several pilot TransPromo projects with blue chip brands across North America.
BIRMINGHAM, UK—July 2, 2008—Following the official launch of Ipex 2010 at the highly successful Stars in Print reception at Drupa 2008, which was attended by over 90 of the industry’s senior management, the Ipex 2010 organizers are thrilled to announce that they have sold out its pre-media and digital solutions halls 9, 10, 11 and 12. Major exhibitors in these halls include HP, Kodak, Ricoh, Agfa Graphics, Epson, Canon, Screen, Xeikon, Konica Minolta, Canon, Fuji and many others, some of which have significantly increased the size of their stands. In particular, Konica Minolta has increased its footprint by 400%; Canon by 91%, Fuji by
DRUPA’S STANDING as an international printing exhibition makes it the place to see the course of technological development in the industry laid out for the next four years. As even the following press and postpress wrap-up stories note, digital printing technology had its strongest showing yet. Even the developments in digital workflow were muted by comparison. Many of the product introductions were already covered in one of the Drupa Countdown stories published in editions of Printing Impressions leading up to the show. Therefore, this wrap-up will primarily focus on what was new in Düsseldorf. The event lived up to its billing as The Ink-Jet
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—May 29, 2008—InfoPrint Solutions Co., a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today celebrates its first anniversary and is announcing a significant expansion of its global workforce. Many hundreds of IBM employees will join InfoPrint’s professional services team around the world, as agreed during the establishment of the joint venture. The highly skilled IBM printer service specialists who have been providing both warranty and maintenance contract support for IBM and InfoPrint Solutions-branded printers will now become InfoPrint Solutions Company employees and continue to serve InfoPrint customers. This team will be led by John Roope, senior vice president and general manager, Maintenance Support Services.
