In the post I did just previous to this post, I mentioned “ZweigWhite.” The other day, I purchased (for $5) an article from ZweigWhite’s web-site, and, I’d like to share a couple of “cliff notes” from that article. (I am not going to reprint the entire article; if you want to read the entire article,…

Ian Rusk, CEO of ZweigWhite, authored and published an interesting article reprographers should take note of. For those reprographers who are not aware of who ZweigWhite is, I’ve copied into this e-mail (see below) some “about ZweigWhite” information that appears on ZW’s web-site. As to the article, “The 2010 AEC industry outlook from 30,000 feet,”…

This article appeared on MarketWatch.com this morning……. CONSTRUCTION DOWN SEVEN STRAIGHT MONTHS By Greg Robb10:11 AM ET Jan 4, 2010 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Spending on U.S. construction projects fell in November, marking the seventh straight monthly decline, the government reported Monday. Overall, spending on construction projects fell 0.6% in November, the Commerce Department said. This…

Since ABC Imaging is a privately held company, we don’t hear a lot about ABC, even though ABC Imaging is among the five largest A/E/C reprographers in the world. I found this article on OCE’s web-site: ABC Imaging defies recession and invests in Océ London, UK, 20 October 2009—Two hundred people turned out for a…

Well, it is THAT time of year. Time to reflect, time to ponder, time to plan and time to make your resolutions for next year. 2009 has certainly been a very, very challenging year for most people. A recession for most, a depression for those involved in A/E/C and in A/E/C reprographics. Keep going, recessions…

….. is the title of a recent (Dec 21, 2009) article published on Reed Construction Data’s web-site. Here’s the address of that article. http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/news/2009/12/nonresidential-building-recession-will-persist-through-most-of-2010/?nid=4792 Jim Haughey, author of the article, included several tables with statistics and trends; quite interesting. Tables included “Retail”, “Office,” “Industrial,” and “Institutional.”

About 3 weeks ago, I saw that Service Point had recently reported its results through Q3 2009. You can find that press release at this web address: http://www.servicepoint.net/es/press/docs/PR_3Q09_091109.pdf The lack of transparency in Spain-based, public-company-reporting is very interesting. The press release makes it sound like “all is well” (only 7+ percent off.) They don’t mention…

As some of my friends (and blog-site readers) know, I am working, part-time, in Europe. There are some very interesting differences (and a lot of them) between Europe and the U.S. Some of those differences are “cultural” and some of those difference are “languages,” “currencies,” and “measurement.” A very funny situation came up during my…

Well, this deal was “major news” to reprographers! Caused a lot of e-mails flying back and forth. One friend, who is in the reprographics business in Europe (owns a very large enterprise), was not happy about the deal – said that Canon offers low/mid quality equipment and poor customer service, and that OCE offers outstanding…

As many of you know, the Federal Reserve, each month, publishes what’s know as the “beige book,” which is basically a running narrative of business conditions across the 12 Districts that make up the Federal Reserve System. The October beige book contains the report on business conditions in September; the November beige book, not yet…