Reprographics 101
(more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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Greg Williams, who, since Q1 2006, served as President of NGI, retired from NGI sometime during Q1 2010. This is not “new news”, it is at least a couple of months old, but I’m finally taking a few minutes time to write about Greg and his retirement from NGI. On March 1, 2006, this brief…
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This past weekend while out to dinner, I bumped into one of my ex-NGI associates, David Fitz, CPA. David told me that he’s announced his retirement from NGI. If I’m recalling this accurately, David joined NGI around 3 years after I joined NGI, and we worked together for approximately 7 years (of my 10 years…
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On April 15th, I posted an article about the AIA ABI Index, and, within that article, I mentioned a bet I made with a friend. Well, I won my bet; the AIA ABI Index for March 2010 was 46.1, so still below 50. For those of you who did not see the AIA Press Release…
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According to the estimates published on Yahoo Finance, these are the “analyst estimates” for ARC for Q1 2010:Sales – From a low of $109.0 million to a high of $111.5 millionEPS – $.02 My estimates for ARC’s Q1 2010 results are as follows:Sales – $106.1 millionEPS – $.01 ARC is expected to report its Q1…
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The other day, I received in my e-mail inbox an e-mail from Mike Cully, President of the IRGA. In that e-mail, Mike urges reprographers to attending this year’s IRGA Convention, which will be held in Palm Springs, CA, May 19-21, 2010. In his e-mail, Mike puts forth a David Letterman-like list of the “top 10…
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I attended the GlobalGrafixNet(.com) conference in Rome April 16th and 17th [and, because the Iceland volcano ash is causing havoc with airline flights from Europe to the U.S., it looks like I’ll be “stuck” in Rome for a few more days. I guess there are worse places to get stuck, huh? I could also share…
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According to what the AIA says about its “ABI Index”, when the index is less than 50 that means that the Architecture Industry is in a declining mode, and, conversely, when the index is 50 or above that means that the Architecture Industry is in a growth mode. The AIA ABI Index has been below…
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Major architectural firm closes it doors in Jacksonville, FL – a sign of the times; reprographers are not the only ones suffering from the depression that’s affected both the A/E/C Industry and the Reprographics Industry. What awful news this is. Jack Diamond, the gentlemen mentioned in the article that appears below, was one of our…
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DON’T MISS OUT ON THE DEBATE AND DISCUSSION THAT WILL HAPPEN, AT THIS YEAR’S IRGA CONVENTION, ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE REPROGRAPHICS BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. One of my blog readers, Casey Simpson, who is on the Board of Directors of the IRGA and who is Chairwoman of the IRGA Education Committee and Convention, submitted a…
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If you are in the A/E/C reprographics business in the U.S., the U.K., or in Western Europe and are serving A/E/C customers in your countries who are working on projects in these Eastern/Central European countries – Russia, Poland, The Czech Republic or Hungary – then I want to make sure that you know that Copy…
Reprographics 101 