Currently suffering from a serious case of jet-lag on my current trip to Europe, I’m up at 2:30 a.m. in the morning, and, with nothing better to do (until I get tired enough to get back to sleep), I thought I’d spend a few minutes time exploring information posted on various “Architecture Industry” related sites…

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Well, the previous post was “not good news”, so, to be fair, I thought I’d go ahead and post this article, one that appeared recently at ENR.com …. and one that appears to be “good news.”The internet address of this article is: http://enr.construction.com/business_management/finance/2009/1016-HousingRebound.asp Housing Could Spark A Rebound in 201010/16/2009By Bruce Buckley Following three years…

An industry friend pointed me, this morning, to this Business Week “cover story” article. After reading this article, I don’t know what else to say but, “ugh”, this is not good news for the reprographics industry. In order for a recovery to get going, capital (lending) markets have to begin flowing again. Here’s the article:…

Okay, here are Briefing.com’s “brief” comments about ARC’s Q3 results: Market Report — In Play (ARP)November 5, 2009 4:21 PM ET Stocks mentioned in this articleAmerican Reprographics Co (ARP) All Briefing.com news:American Reprographics beats by $0.05, beats on revs; reaffirms FY09 EPS guidance Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $0.06 per share, excluding non-recurring items, $0.05…

Okay, this is my first time playing financial analyst. I guess if “they” can come up with estimates, so can I. As to the financial analysts that follow ARC, what do they know that I don’t know, and, what do I know that they don’t know? Okay, when Suri (ARC’s CEO) made a downward revision…

On September 22, 2009, ISQFT announced that it had acquired “certain assets” of Plan Express. The full text of that release can be found at this internet address: http://www.isqft.com/home/newsdocuments/Plan_Express_09-09.pdf My comments about this deal: During the summer, I heard that ISQFT was “looking at” Plan Express. Rumors were abound that Plan Express had been hit…

On October 13th, 2009, ARC announced a new acquisition. “American Reprographics Company, a provider of document management services, has acquired certain assets of RCMS Group, LLC, a technology services provider in the building information modeling (BIM) market.” This time, ARC’s acquisition was NOT a reprographics company. This acquisition (and, certainly, this is simply my own…

This article appeared on Reuters the other day. Since in one my recent posts I talk about Non-Res Real Estate Developers and their inability to finance projects and how the availability of financing impacts the R.E. development industry – – and, thusly, reprographers – – I thought this article would be appropriate to post on…

What you’ll read below (if, in fact, you take the time to read it)….. comes from a blog I came across this morning. That blog is located at http://www.constructonomics.com/ The author (a construction professional) wrote this as part of an article he posted on July 30, 2009. Since I’ve written posts about BIM in the…