Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
The Beyond Print blog points to an article in the German press about Heidelberger Druckmaschinen search for an investor to swap several hundred million Euro for equity stake in the company. George Alexander translating the Handelsblatt article writes: Since Heidelberg traditionally produces many components for its machines ahead of time, these are ...Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Ran across this recently and found it pretty interesting: http://www.theprintedblog.com The stated intent is to turn around the newspaper industry: The Printed Blog is changing the way people read and consume news and other information. We hope to play a vital part in reversing the fortunes of the newspaper industry with this new ...Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Google has announced its plans to stop its Print Ads program which allowed advertisers to place ads in over 800 U.S. newspapers: In the last few months, we've been taking a long, hard look at all the things we are doing to ensure we are investing our resources in the projects ...Monday, January 19th, 2009
I wrote the following blog last week for Publishing Executive Magazine that I want to share with this group of printers. I think it is a key to the future of publishing and perhaps also to the future of printers as well. For me it has never been a question ...Friday, January 16th, 2009
The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles Mark Jessen of Jessen Press on his journey to save his printing business from declining profit margins. Jessen turned to a partnership with a marketing savvy neighbor to develop a new business and a line of novelty printed map products. The map business generated 10 percent ...Monday, January 12th, 2009
There is a press release today from QuadGraphics where they intend to reduce production capacity across their manufacturing platform. The company intends to shut down the equivalent of one plant's worth of capacity immediately. This move will result in the elimination of approximately 550 jobs in 5 states, or approximately ...Thursday, January 8th, 2009
For years I have held the position that newspapers were the canaries in the mine to the magazine business. Whatever the fluctuations in our businesses positive or negative, they have always happened first in newspapers.
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