Business Strategies for the Distributor Sales Professional
Amazon's recently released mobile app came with a new feature that's meant to make you buy your entire shopping list with as few clicks as possible.
The new app for the iPhone (Amazon hasn't announced plans for any other devices yet) comes with an augmented-reality scanner. Dubbed Flow, it's the new iteration of a feature called "Snap It," which let users search for items—mostly things like books, video games and CDs—by taking a photo of them.
PaperWorks Industries Inc. will be closing its Phoenix-based folding carton plant in the coming months. Employees and customers affected by the closing have been notified as the company begins the process of transferring them to other folding carton plants in the US and Canada.
RR Donnelley & Sons Company has completed its previously announced acquisition of Consolidated Graphics Inc., a provider of digital and commercial printing, fulfillment services, print management and proprietary Internet-based technology solutions.
Distribution solutions businesses Unisource Worldwide Inc. and xpedx will merge under the terms of a definitive agreement that would result in the creation of a new publicly traded company.
Avery Dennison Corporation recently announced preliminary, unaudited results for its fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 28, 2013.
Scodix, the leading provider of digital enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, announced the appointment of Lance Shumaker as vice president of Scodix North America.
Canadian police on Jan. 31 seized something they had been hunting for years: a printing press capable of making some of the most sophisticated counterfeit American $20 bills investigators had ever seen.
As part of a joint action with the U.S. Secret Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confiscated a press and enough specially watermarked paper to create more than $200 million.
Verso Paper says it may be unable to complete a $1.4 billion acquisition of its rival NewPage Holdings because of low participation in a crucial exchange offer, in which the company would exchange existing debt for another class of debt.
Based on the amount of debt offered up in the early part of the exchange period, Verso Paper says it is concerned that the effort won't succeed.
New Leaf Paper, Oakland, Calif., has set a new environmental standard with the national launch of New Leaf Reincarnation 100, the first coated paper made in the U.S. from 100 percent post-consumer recycled waste (PCW). Most recycled, coated papers made in the U.S. fall well below this standard, containing only 10 percent to 30 percent PCW.
Two Sides U.S. Inc. announced that more than 20 leading U.S. companies have removed their "anti-paper" green claims being used to promote electronic billing and other e-services as a more environmentally friendly solution than paper.
