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Xerox Completes Acquisition of ACS

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Xerox announced that its acquisition of ACS was completed today, transforming Xerox into a $22 billion global enterprise, tripling the size of Xerox’s service business to $10 billion, with annuity revenue representing 80% of total revenue. Xerox held a press call to discuss how the integration would be managed, with ...

Benefits of 3rd Party Lease Expert

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Andy Tribute wrote a great article a few days ago on the current status of inkjet technologies and equipment leaders along with issues that each potential buyer should keep in mind. One facet was not addressed that I would like to add. And this pertains to all equipment acquisitions. Each ...

CMO Council Releases Study on Customer Loyalty Program Effectiveness

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The Leaders in Loyalty: Feeling the Love from the Loyalty Clubs, released by The CMO Council and InfoPrint Solutions,  is the first study the CMO Council has done specifically on loyalty programs.  It was conducted by InfoPrint who polled more than 600 marketers who deploy loyalty programs and 700 ...

Think Visual: EFI Brings Interesting Printing Ease-of-Use to Desktops

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I remember having a conversation with franchise network Allegra’s Carl Gerhardt a few years ago about the impact of more fully featured equipment in corporate environments on the volumes of work available to his franchisees.  At the time, his position was that franchisees should go after what Gerhardt describes as ...

Quad/Graphics’ Worldcolor Acquisition Details

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

WhatTheyThink is keeping you informed real-time about Quad/Graphics' intent to acquire Worldcolor,  formerly Quebecor World. This big industry news was broken on WSJ online and on WhatTheyThink as well as here on PrintCEO. During the investor conference call held this morning, Mark Angelson of Worldcolor and Joel Quadracci of Quad/Graphics ...

Xerox Gives Book Publishers One More Thing to Think About

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Yesterday,  Xerox announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with On Demand Books wherein the Xerox 4112 Copier/Printer will be integrated with the Espresso Book Machine - a fully integrated solution that prints, binds and trims books with full color covers on demand in retail locations and libraries.  The Espresso Book ...

E&P Finds a Buyer, Nixes Long Time Editor Mitchell

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher for the past 8 years posted a tweet tonight saying that E&P had indeed found a buyer instead of the magazine going under.  The twist was that he was not being retained as editor.  He also posts at his blog that senior editor ...