Distributor News

INX Digital, San Leandro, Calif., announced that James Coulston has joined the company as regional sales manager for the Triangle brand. A printing industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience, he will be responsible for sales in the central U.S.

About 460 employees who print and mail documents for Fidelity Investments in Kentucky and Texas will be laid off, a spokesman said.

Citing increasing use of the Internet to send information to investors, Fidelity spokesman Perry Chlan said around 400 employees at the company's campus in Covington, Ky., and another 60 at its facility in Grapevine, Texas, were notified Tuesday that they would lose their jobs.

Fidelity said it would be outsourcing its printing of forms like account statements, trade confirmations, and prospectuses to Broadridge Financial Solutions. The layoffs are scheduled to take place over the next 12 to 18 months.

Diversified Labeling Solutions Inc., Reno, Nev., a converter of pressure-sensitive labels sold through distributors in a wide range of industries, including logistics, packaging and consumer goods, has announced it will move its office and manufacturing facility from its current location to new, larger quarters in the same city. The move is effective July 14, 2014.

Bill Trent, purchasing manager and scheduler for Central States Business Forms, Dewey, Okla., celebrated his 45th anniversary with the company on June 10, 2014

Graphco, Cleveland, recently announced the appointment of Chris Leyes as business development manager covering Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and surrounding areas. Leyes, an industry veteran with more than 26 years of experience, has a broad base of customer relationships established in the graphic arts, packaging, offset and digital equipment sales industry. Most recently, he was part of the sales team of Komori America Corporation.

OEC Graphics, Oshkosh, Wis., a vertically integrated pre-media and flexography company, has recently acquired MGM Graphics. MGM Graphics has been a recognized leader in prepress to the corrugated/packaging industries in the Western U.S. and Canada for 25 years.

Multi Packaging Solutions, a New York-based print and packaging provider, has acquired Armstrong Packaging, a UK producer of specialty rigid boxes. The acquisition expands the company's global platform for luxury packaging, gift sets, travel retail and commemorative editions.

Wright Imaging, the Portland, Oregon-based statement processing and transactional mail division of Wright Business Graphics, announced the appointment of Debbie Aker as vice president/general manager.

Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has commercially released new extensions to its industry-leading Kodak Flexcel NX system, empowering customers in the post-print and pre-print corrugated markets to drive significant print-quality improvements while taking advantage of increased print stability and pressroom efficiencies.

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