Marketing and Sales

Ennis Inc., Midlothian, Texas, reported financial results for the three and six months ended Aug. 31, 2015. The company’s consolidated net sales for the quarter ended Aug. 31, 2015 were $150.8 million compared to $151.8 million for the same quarter last year, a decrease of 0.7 percent...

Brian Buckley never had aspirations of joining the family print business. But by the end of his five-year stint at the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, Buckley was ready for something more engaging—which is why he happily accepted a customer service position in 1981 at National Printing Converters (NPC), a custom label and tag company started by his father Robert in the early ’60s.

Andrew Carnegie arrived in the U.S. in 1848 with barely a dollar to his name. By 1901, he was the richest man in the world. At the height of his power, he was approached by a young journalist named Napoleon Hill who was interested in telling the stories of successful people...

Stouse recently introduced a new line of products to assist distributors in targeting breweries, wineries and distilleries. The brewery products line includes new keg collars, keg wraps, growler and bottle tags...

As leaders we must be looking up and around to see all the change that is taking place in our hyper-connected world.

Last week, Print+Promo announced an alliance between Butler Street, a leading management consulting, training and research firm focused on client and talent development, and our sister publication Printing Impressions. Together, they will provide the de facto industry standard for measuring customer loyalty through the Best of Print & Digital Customer Survey.

To stay ahead of the competition, it's important for marketing leaders to have an eye on trends that have the potential to accelerate—or disrupt—their businesses.

As the owner of apg group, Jersey City, N.J., Packles regularly works with restaurants to ensure their door signs are always set to “open.” These partnerships often are planned in advance, but sometimes opportunities arise by chance, say, on a lunch break.

The fourth-quarter will be here before you know it, so how can you make that last push to meet your 2015 sales goals? We spoke to distributors and suppliers to get some answers. Here is what they had to say.

We already know that the world is built on connections. After all, it is about who you know and not what you know, right? With that being said, the busier you get, the less time you have to spend on unproductive meetings because, well, you're busy working on revenue-generating activities. The problem is that you already encounter these terrible engagements on a regular basis and if you're not paying attention, you'll find yourself trapped in a seemingly never-ending cycle of worthless meetings.