Business Strategies for the Distributor Sales Professional
3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, is no longer some far-fetched idea dreamed up by science fiction enthusiasts. The technology has already gained a lot of ground, and according to Wohlers Report 2014, the market is expected to grow by more than 31 percent per year between 2013 and 2020, eventually producing more than $21 billion in worldwide revenue.
The Green Bay Packers will join forces with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and the National Children Identification Program to distribute child identification kits to Wisconsin children during the 2015-2016 school year. Each kit will contain Nekoosa Coated Products' Identifier inkless fingerprinting materials.
An agency whose mission has been producing, publishing and recording our Nation's history has made some history of its own. Section 1301 of H.R. 83, the legislation providing consolidated and further continuing appropriations for FY 2015 that was recently passed by Congress and signed into law last week by President Barack Obama, changes the name of the Government Printing Office to the Government Publishing Office.
HP Mile Inc., a Syracuse-based label printing company, has acquired all assets of Geneva, New York-based label converter Lauraville Packaging LLC.
Appleton Coated, a leader in the coated paper industry, has been purchased by Virtus Holdings LLC, a new company formed by members of Appleton Coated's management team.
RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, has announced that its Global Outsourcing Services offering has been recognized for the fourth consecutive year in The Global Outsourcing 100.
Cascades Inc., a leader in the recovery of recyclable materials and the manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, has reached an agreement for the sale of its North American boxboard manufacturing and converting assets to Graphic Packaging Holding for $44.9 million.
Eastman Kodak Co.'s bankruptcy, finally and officially, is over. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Allan Gropper last week approved a motion closing the Chapter 11 case. The move is largely administrative, as Kodak's bankruptcy reorganization was approved in September 2013.
Standard Register, a leading provider of workflow, content and analytics solutions based in Dayton, Ohio, has been selected as the exclusive provider of promotional marketing products for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the world's leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products.
Kodak has established a new organizational structure to make the company faster-moving, more competitive and more entrepreneurial. The company will have five market-focused business divisions: Print Systems; Enterprise Inkjet Systems; Micro 3D Printing and Packaging; Software and Solutions; and Consumer and Film.
