A few months ago, the IRgA announced the three newest recipients of the prestigious IRgA Bukovsky Award.  That award goes to people who make (or, in the past tense, who made) a significant contribution to the IRgA.  For the most part, one has to serve (or have served) as an Officer or Director of the…

“As Hewlett-Packard’s long and messy turnaround continues, the tech company’s profit is increasingly coming from a familiar—but likely less-than-ideal—source: Printing” Read the brief article at this link: http://qz.com/213045/hp-printing-profits/ 0 0 1 57 327 Proactive Management 2 1 383 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;…

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 All rights reserved and actively enforced. Weekly Market Comment, May 12, 2014 “With advisory sentiment running at 56% bulls and fewer than 20% bears, with most historically reliable valuation metrics about twice their pre-bubble norms (and presently associated with negative expected S&P 500 nominal…

Off topic, for sure. “They” finally got something right …… and not just right, but “amazingly” right. In yesterday’s mail, I received the newest brochure from Medicare.  This brochure is designed to explain Medicare, and, in particular, Medicare Parts A and B, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage and MediGap.  The brochure is designed to educate…

One sure way to never get any more reprographics work from a customer!  (Well, that’s simply my opinion.) Here’s the beginning of an article, published on May 9th, in the KC Business Journal about Marathon’s lawsuit against JE Dunn Construction: Kansas City construction software company Marathon Reprographics Inc. is suing JE Dunn Construction, claiming that…

Barrington Research reiterated an Outperform rating on Textura Corp (NYSE: TXTR) with a price target of $30. May 8, 2014 1:59 PM EDT, article from streetinsider.com Analyst Jeff Houston said, “Management lowered calendar 2014 expectations due to delays both in signing new general contractors (GCs) and existing clients’ implementations. It attributed the deferment mostly to…

Whomp! Posted by Bonnie Powley (on Zolmax.com) on May 8th, 2014 Stock analysts at Oppenheimer cut their price target on shares of Textura Corp (NASDAQ:TXTR) from $42.00 to $30.00 in a report issued on Thursday, Analyst Ratings News reports. The firm currently has an “outperform” rating on the stock. Oppenheimer’s price objective indicates a potential…

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I’ve always had a fascination with words, especially those used in and around the “reprographics” industry, ……or, er, uh, …… is it the “reprographic” industry????? I prefer the use of the word “reprographics” rather than the use of the word “reprographic”, since adding the “s” implies that there are multiple methods of reprography (or, if…