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RRD acquiring Bowne

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Excellent backgrounder by Gail on the Bowne acquisition. I think the basic motivation is much simpler... Corporate acquisitions have never been cheaper, And What RRD has really done is put a major competitor out of business. They bought extremely valuable relationships with the financial services legal community, which constantly ...

Xerox Files Patent Suit Against Google, Yahoo

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Xerox is suing Yahoo and Google for for alleged infringement of its patents on Internet search and e-commerce. The 8 page complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Delaware (PDF) says Google AdSense and AdWords, Yahoo's Contextual search software infringes its 2004 patent on a system for automatically generating ...

Mohawk: From Paper to Software

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

. . At PMA 2010, the trade event for “everything photo,” Mohawk Fine Papers announced the acquisition of LabPrints, a developer of workflow software and services for professional photographers and photo labs. “Wait,” you say, “a paper company bought a software company?” In search of clarification, I spoke to Bart Robinson, Mohawk's ...

Just when we thought we were safe …

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

… another print trade show turns up. With all of the discussion about how many trade shows we really need in the printing industry and whether they need to be held annually, a consolidation theme that has been on the table for some time, a new printing trade show pops up ...

A Veteran Dealmaker Declares, “Roll-ups in Print are Dead!”

Friday, February 19th, 2010

We received the following in response to a recent article at Printing Industry Merger And Acquisitions, a special section of WhatTheyThink that tracks and analyzes M&A activity in the industry. The article profiled the recent launch of MSP Digital Marketing, a venture that will invest in building a network of ...

Heidelberg, Komori not exhibiting at Graph Expo

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

GASC informed WhatTheyThink that Heidelberg will not be at Graph Expo 2010, instead focusing on IPEX taking place this May. Heidelberg has committed to Graph Expo 2011. HP will be front and center in booth 1200. Heidelberg is not the only offset press manufacture to opt out of ...

FUJIFILM Appoints President & CEO

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

In November, FUJIFILM announced a merger of its FUJIFILM U.S.A. and FUJIFILM Graphic Systems organizations to create FUJIFILM North America Corporation.  At that time, the company had not made a final determination about who would lead the new organization.  Today, Ryutaro Hosoda was named as President & CEO of FUJIFILM ...