Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
Category: Uncategorized
-
Joseph Merritt Company, led by its CEO, Ed Perry, continues to push into the large-format color graphics printing market and, to complement that effort, expands its offerings of “display” solutions. Joseph Merritt Company is one of the largest reprographics and graphic imaging services enterprises in the U.S., and certainly one of the more progressive, aggressive…
-
“Builder Confidence Unchanged in August” Here’s the beginning of this first article: August 15, 2011 – Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes held unchanged at a low level of 15 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for August, released today. “Builders continue to confront the…
-
On 8/12/11, Suri, Chairman, CEO and President of ARC, purchased (for the Suriyakumar Family Trust) approximately $50,000 worth of ARC stock, at just under $3.85 per share, as reported in a Form 4 filing with the SEC. After ARC reported its Q2 2011 results (which some have characterized as ho-hum) and the downturn in the…
-
I found a very interesting blog-site this evening, and I’d like to share that site with reprographers who visit Reprographics 101. It is called “Extranet Evolution” and is authored by Paul Wilkinson. Although Paul is a U.K. guy, not a U.S. guy, that doesn’t mean that he is not aware of what’s going on outside…
-
I just noticed that ABC Imaging has a separate web-site for its “BPOL-NG” software product. That web-site is located at this Internet address: http://bpol-ng.com/ They have an interesting and well-developed “presentation” that is accessed by clicking on the “Services” tab, then clicking on the “Features” tab. That presentation takes you slide-by-slide through the features of…
-
Recently, a financial analyst who follows the reprographics industry, asked me a question that, although I could provide him an educated guess, I decided to ask visitors to this blog. To visitors of Reprographics 101, would you please help me out with this? Who are the largest reprographics companies in each of the top 30…
-
U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops to Three-Decade Low Amid Economic Headwinds From Bloomberg Business By Jillian Berman – Aug 12, 2011 10:39 AM ET What you see below is not the entire article. I’ve only copied out bits and pieces from the article that Jillian Berman authored for Bloomberg. Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August…
-
ABC Imaging lawsuit against a former employee who allegedly received kick-backs from an ABC vendor !
This lawsuit is not new news, but I’m just finding out about it…. Wow, in a lawsuit filed by ABC Imaging, ABC alleges that one of its employees (by now, a former employee) received kick-backs from an ABC Imaging vendor. To the tune of over $320,000! Basically, the former employee declared Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, I…
-
For those of you who are too lazy to read ARC’s recently filed Q2 2011 10-Q Report, I’ve pulled out and placed below the section of that report that talks about the components of “net sales.” Net Sales. Net sales decreased by 4.8% and 4.9% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011,…
-
Well, I’m late on publishing this RFP opportunity, but I’m not going to apologize, since it’s your job, not mine, to find government-sector RFP and bid opportunities for your company! As you can see, the deadline for submission was yesterday (unless they extended the RFP submission deadline date.) COUNTY OF SOLANO INVITATION FOR BID IFB…
Reprographics 101 