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Ennis Inc. recently announced plans to consolidate, integrating two Tennessee operations into one facility. The move is to be completed no later than the end of September 2014.

InnerWorkings Inc., Chicago, recently announced results for the three months ended June 30, 2014. The company reported record revenue of $260.3 million, an increase of 23 percent compared to $210.9 million in the second quarter of 2013.

Mohawk, Cohoes, N.Y., announced that Thomas D. O'Connor III, manager, digital substrate sales, has been appointed to the Printing Industries Alliance (PIA) board of directors.

Warren Bennis, a business school professor at University of Southern California for 35 years and the author of 30 books on leadership, died last week at the age of 89. The founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at USC's Marshall School of Business, Bennis was known as the "dean of leadership gurus," the Los Angeles Times writes.

His seminal 1989 book On Becoming a Leader, is required reading for any businessperson. Bennis mentored CEOs, trained countless soon-to-be leaders while teaching at Harvard, MIT and USC, and advised U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, The New York Times reports.

Pass a playground and follow a dusty road, and there, on the other side of a chain-link fence, is the wreckage of the paper mill that was born before this town was.

One recent afternoon, backhoes picked through the rubble of a vast room that once held 10 paper machines, while a handful of townspeople, some smoking in their idling cars, watched.

It is something to do here, witnessing the disintegration of the Great Northern Paper mill, which conjured this town out of the backwoods and sustained it for a century.

Bell and Howell, a global provider of customer communications and commerce, has named Larry Blue as chief operating officer. Blue has 35 years of engineering and global, cross-functional management experience.

Devin LeMahieu, candidate for Wisconsin 9th District Senate, recently visited Badger Tag & Label, Random Lake, Wis., to celebrate the company's business heritage and show support for the state's business climate.

Gill Studios Inc., Lenexa, Kan., has announced its acquisition of Barton Nelson's assests. Barton Nelson, a former supplier, shut down in June after 53 years in business.

American Roller and Plasma Coatings Company, Union Grove, Wis., has invested in a state-of-the-art Danobat CNC Cylindrical Grinder for its new manufacturing facility currently under construction.

RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, recently reported financial results for the second quarter of 2014. The company's second-quarter net sales of $2.9 billion grew 12.9 percent from the second quarter of 2013.