Laws + Regulations
March 31, 2020 at 5:29 pm
Bart Krupnick answers several financial aid questions a printing company owner might have in reference to the recently-passed CARES Act...
March 25, 2020 at 5:15 pm
President Donald Trump signed the historic $2 trillion stimulus after Congress passed it Friday. We looked through the full text of the bill and consulted various online sources to see how the legislation applies to the promo industry. Here are some key details...
March 3, 2020 at 5:58 pm
On Feb. 25, 2020, a California Superior Court issued a preliminary injunction against PDF Print Communications Inc., PDF’s president, Kevin Mullaney, and a PDF employee, Fernando Cortes, to protect Ennis Inc.’s customer and trade secret information from misuse...
February 4, 2020 at 7:31 pm
Ongoing economic, legislative and regulatory issues for printers are as worthy of attention as anything taking place nationally...
December 10, 2019 at 8:10 pm
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn and Xerox Vice Chairman and CEO John Visentin are taking their case directly to HP shareholders to gain the support for Xerox’s $33.5B acquisition offer for HP....
November 26, 2019 at 6:03 pm
HP’s board rejected Xerox’s offer and, now, Xerox told HP that it will engage directly with HP shareholders for their merger approval...
November 5, 2019 at 7:23 pm
Following the news of Iowa Senator Jodi Ernst's SWAG Act, a proposed bill that would prohibit government entities from using taxpayer dollars for advertising (including buying promotional products), PPAI sent out a statement to the industry...
October 1, 2019 at 5:03 pm
The year 2019 will surely go down as a time period that Quad Chairman, President and CEO Joel Quadracci and his senior leadership team will want to forget. Following on the heels of its failed acquisition of Chicago-based LSC Communications due to legal opposition of the merger...
August 27, 2019 at 7:17 pm
It was a volatile weekend for the U.S. and China's economic relationship. On Friday, following China's announcement that it will retaliate with tariffs on about $75 billion in U.S. goods, President Trump said that the U.S. would impose an additional 5 percent on Chinese imports...
August 2, 2019 at 4:24 pm
It's been a few weeks without news regarding the ongoing trade talks between the U.S. and China. In a series of tweets yesterday, however, President Donald Trump reported that U.S. trade representatives returned from China talks with disappointing results, and that he would add a "small additional tariff of 10 percent" on $300 billion in Chinese imports, effective Sept. 1...
