Detroit

Circle Graphics, the world's largest producer of grand-format digital graphics, recently announced the acquisition of Mammoth Media, a grand-format printing company with a focus on the transit market. 

Five years after introducing Saphira Aqueous Coatings to the market, Heidelberg recently began manufacturing the coatings locally at its new Hi-Tech Coatings plant, located in the Detroit suburb of Taylor, Mich. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening was held Aug. 30.

McCormick Armstrong―a commercial printer with state of the art web and sheet fed capabilities, direct mail, catalog, fulfillment, distribution and other brand management tools―has hired Dallas veteran printing and direct mail marketing specialist Ann Kinsfather to establish a Southwest regional office in Dallas. The move expands the national footprint of the Wichita, Kansas-based company that also has regional offices in the Midwest (Detroit) and Northeast (New York).

Unisource Worldwide Inc. joined together with The Print Council to support many new initiatives in the world of print communications.

There’s a vast difference between knowing a change is necessary and knowing the necessary steps to make a desired change. Just ask industry veteran Dave DeWitt—no relation—who set out to bolster his Detroit-based distributorship, ACE, against the slings and arrows of a harsh economy. In and of itself, ACE lacked sufficient resources to remain successful in a fiercely competitive marketplace facing an uncertain future. November 2006 was an especially bad sales month for ACE and the writing, said DeWitt, was clearly on the wall. “I have a right-hand person, but she couldn’t anticipate what [was] going to happen and how we should react,