Supplier News

The fun doesn't stop at 50. Additional suppliers responded to this year's Top Suppliers survey, but just missed this year's list. Here are some of them:

On Sept. 5, the NFL kickoff, more than 400 people brought their appetites and enthusiasm to Carol Stream, Illinois-based Team Concept Printing’s football-inspired open house.

Foster City, California-based EFI, a leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, has acquired Online Print Solutions (“OPS”), an innovator in the areas of web-to-print, dynamic publishing and cross-media marketing solutions.

Last year, Keith S. Walters, chairman, president and CEO of Midlothian, Texas-based Ennis Inc., encouraged members of the industry to promote printing as “not only a solution for customers, but a more cost-effective solution than newer technologies.” 

Ennis Inc., a manufacturer of business forms and apparel headquartered in Midlothian, Texas, has announced its quarterly cash dividend.

3M, parent company to supplier 3M Promotional Markets, has stated that the company is still working with Avery Dennison Corp. on a purchase agreement, despite a report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) claiming that the deal has been terminated.

While the Internet and supply-chain transparency are for the most part pretty great (being able to download any movie ever, knowing which overseas factories are responsible for packing gunpowder and live, sting-crazed hornets into children's lunchpails), there have been some downsides.

Miami-based Bullet, a subsidiary of Polyconcept North America, recently announced the launch of 71 new items, as well as nine items featuring new colors. The products span across a variety of popular categories including bags, drinkware, technology and sticky notes—just in time for end-of-year projects.

Austell, Georgia-headquartered Graphic Dimensions recently hired Jerry Brook as its national prepress manager.

Presstek Inc., a leading supplier of digital offset printing solutions to the printing and communications industries, has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which it would be acquired by MAI Holdings, Inc., an entity affiliated with American Industrial Partners Capital Fund IV, L.P. (AIP).