Business Forms

Ask most distributors where they are focusing their print selling efforts and you’ll discover that business forms aren’t on their radar. Continuous forms, in particular, are not just low on the list — for most, they aren’t on the list at all. Distributors are building their print product and service portfolios around everything from commercial printing to packaging to augmented reality. But by ignoring continuous forms, they are missing an opportunity...

Ennis Inc., Midlothian, Texas, has purchased assets — including customer lists and intellectual property — from Gulf Business Forms, a San Marcos, Texas-based trade printer with more than 50 years of experience producing custom-printed documents. Known for its acquisition strategy, Ennis, the only print-centric company to rank within the top three of Print+Promo Marketing’s...

RELYCO, Dover, New Hampshire, recently announced the acquisition of Business Forms Inc. (BFI), Roanoke, Virginia. RELYCO, a specialty paper and AP solutions provider, will begin supplying checks and forms to BFI customers immediately. RELYCO was founded over 30 years ago as a check supplier, and has since expanded into...

Death and taxes are two certainties in life, as Benjamin Franklin once wisely said. But oftentimes what distributors aren’t so sure about is how to navigate the constant and complex tax law changes that follow. In the last two years alone, the market has seen some of the biggest changes since the introduction of...

Art Waganheim, vice president of operations for Paitec USA, Davie, Florida, says that people tell him every year demand for pressure seal documents is going to wane because of, well, digital everything. Guess what? It hasn’t. And not only has it not disappeared, it’s increased...

American desires for a winning lottery ticket, world peace and their two front teeth are a tale as old as time. But for print professionals like John Burnette, paper tops every wish list. When asked if his supply chain partners could be doing anything more to help him be successful, he joked, “Find some imaginary mills and order some paper"...

It’s been 18 months since we got acquainted with the art of face masks and upped our hand-washing game by adding a 20-second singalong of “Happy Birthday.” Now, even as vaccine rollouts continue and we adjust to this “new normal” that gets thrown around so often, there are still lasting effects in business...

Using pressure seal forms has become known as a cost- and time-saving method for businesses, but there are still a multitude of companies missing out on the benefits they offer. After this past year—a time when the stability of even strong, long-standing businesses was tested—maybe end-users will be more open to what distributors have to say about a product that...

For Print+Promo Marketing’s 2021 State of the Industry report, we set out to learn more about the central issues currently affecting the print and promotional products industry, and find answers to questions like: Which vertical markets are poised for recovery and how does that impact the products distributors sell...

A new administration brings change. And, for some, change leads to unease. That’s not the case for Steve Patton, president of HCF Inc., Hillsboro, Ohio. He knows that evolution is inevitable and believes adapting has played a central role in keeping the wheels of business in motion for the print world...