The IRGA annual convention will be held in Palm Springs, CA, May 19-21, 2010. I will be attending this year’s convention. I hope to see some of you there. I’ve been told by friends that attendance at this year’s convention will be down, compared to previous years. I had remarked, in a post I did…

This post is a bit “off-topic,” but that’s only because the information that appears below came from a web-site primarily focused on the “printing” industry, as opposed to the “reprographics” industry. We in the reprographics industry do know that there are similarities between businesses in the printing industry and businesses in the reprographics industry, and,…

This article appeared in Business Week, this morning …. Construction Spending in the U.S. Decreases to Seven-Year LowApril 01, 2010, 10:08 AM EDTBy Courtney Schlisserman April 1 (Bloomberg) — Construction spending in the U.S. fell in February to the lowest level in more than seven years, signaling this part of the economy remains in a…

PAA Research, LLC, the company that operates the investment research web-site, http://www.pleaseactaccordingly.com, just posted, yesterday, a lengthy report; this report is based on the CEO of PAA’s recent discussions with ARC management about ARC’s current initiatives. The title of the report is called: 􏰀 Conversations with ARP Management: Answering the BIM Question You can access…

Courtesy of Reuters – – 2010-03-24, 04:16NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) – A leading indicator of U.S. nonresidential construction spending recovered slightly but a measure of future projects dipped in February, partly because a ,lot of stimulus financing for building projects has yet to be awarded. The Architecture Billings Index was up 2.3 points to…

Over the last several years, there’s been a lot of discussion and debate over revenue trends in the reprographics industry. I don’t see any need for me to do a full-blown article about that trend, because virtually all reprographers, if not all, are experiencing the trend. The three sentences that immediately follow were copied from…

I found this article posted on the web-site known as ……..…. http://www.benzinga.com/ …….. and it is a web-site for investors. After reading the article, I wasn’t sure if it was good news, bad news, or no news. Don’t you just love articles that start with —– “things look like they are going to improve”, …..…

Well, I just noticed that Tanner Bechtel, formerly a member of the management team of ReproMAX, has left ReproMax* and joined the American Reprographics team. I don’t know Tanner all that well and I don’t particularly like to comment about people coming and going, changing companies, teams, etc, other than to mention that a change…

In the post just previous to this one, I mentioned a press release about the “January 2010” ABI Index. The press release that I previously mentioned was not the “full” article that Kermit Baker (Chief Economist of the AIA) wrote. The “full” article that Kermit wrote can be found at this Internet address: http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB082315 Although…

Latest (January 2010) ABI Index …. from the AIA Press Release issued Feb 24, 2010 Significant Drop in Architecture Billings IndexTight credit markets and weak demand for new projects continue to be main challenges for design and construction industryFor immediate release:Washington, D.C. – February 24, 2010 – Beginning its third year of negative conditions, the…