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  • At the end of the Press Release Service Point issued to announce its 1st Half 2010 Financial Results, Service Point’s Press Release said this:Reprotechnique’s restructuring plan The shareholders of Reprotechnique, a French company where Service Point holds a 51% stake acquired in June 2008, have formally applied for a “Redressement Judiciaire”, a process aimed at…

  • Service Point just issued its 1H 2010 Report. Before you look at the detailed SP 1H 2010 report and read SP’s press release, just a quick comparison (of Q2 2010 results) of the only two public companies who have significant interests in the “reprographics” business and industry: American Reprographics Co……Q2 2010REVENUES………………. 115.1 MIL USDEBITDA……………………. 23.1…

  • I did a previous post about the closing, earlier this year, of Rink Design, a long-time, well-known, well-regarded Architecture firm in Jacksonville, FL. Jack Diamond, the senior principal of Rink Design Partnership, has since opened a new firm, Diamond Architectural Group. I certainly don’t know how many Architecture firms have closed their doors altogether or…

  • I saw this article – specifically, the portion of the article that I’m going to share with you, and said to myself, “WTF, who’s responsible for this stupid %$#@*% ___t?” From the August 4th Issue of the St Louis Business Journal… Two St. Louis-area stimulus projects made Republican U.S. Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn’s…

  • Most recent article I could find on the Internet about iSQFT……. found at http://www.hivelocitymedia.com/innovationnews/iSqFt7_15_10.aspx Power of Internet drives rapid growth of iSqFt in Blue AshThursday, July 15, 2010 iSqFt has merged information technology with traditional bidding and construction planning methods to realize a 30 percent increase in revenue and a 230 percent jump in employment…

  • Google Analytics, the tracking tool that I use to track visits to Reprographics 101, reports that visitors to Reprographics 101, so far, have come from 44 different countries and from 46 different states in the U.S. Help me, please. If you are a reprographer and have friends in the reprographics business in any of the…

  • (From RTTNews) – American Reprographics Co. (ARP: News ) posted second quarter net income of $1.7 million or $0.04 per share, compared to $6.3 million or $0.14 per share in the previous year quarter. On average, three analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report earnings of $0.05 per share for the period.…

  • I’m now going to suggest TAX POLICY, one that, if followed, will spark “job recovery”. If we do not see a recovery in jobs, then there will not be an economic recovery for years and years. If we begin, and continue, to put people back to work, then they will have money to spend, and…

  • One of the more interesting articles, at this point (mid-point) in 2010, is the “Consensus Construction Forecast” article authored by Kermit Baker, Chief Economist of the AIA. This article was posted on the AIA web-site on or around July 16, 2010. What makes this article interesting is that it is a compilation of different forecasts…

  • Well, there we go! In a post I did on July 25th about Stantec’s acquisition of Wilson Miller, I said this ……. …..” But, one also has to wonder if this deal (and deals like this one that have previously happened with Florida-based engineering firms) will influence some of Florida’s other “independent” engineering firms (I…