Europe

InnerWorkings Inc., Chicago, continues to receive industry recognition for its innovation and outstanding work in design, luxury packaging and displays. UK-based Packaging News honored InnerWorkings with a first-place 2014 Luxury Packaging Award for its Glengoyne 25-year-old Highland single malt Scotch Whisky package and a second-place award for its Champagne Bollinger RD package.

Mohawk, North America's largest privately owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing, has announced a new partnership with Metapaper GmbH & Co., based in Stuttgart, Germany, to support sales and marketing for Mohawk's Continental European operations.

EFI, a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, has acquired substantially all the assets of DiMS! organizing print, a developer of comprehensive MIS/ERP systems for print and packaging companies.

RR Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, has been awarded a $60 million multi-year agreement by Crain Communications that significantly expands the companies' relationship through 2020.

InnerWorkings Inc. has been selected as a global marketing partner of Sanofi, one of the world's most well-known health care companies. Under this agreement, InnerWorkings will oversee the creation, production and management of Sanofi's worldwide promotional items, with a special focus on implementing high standards for corporate and social responsibility (CSR) across global operations.

Although the United States has registered more patents in 3-D printing technology than any other region or country, Europe is fast approaching parity with the States in terms of market value, with Asia also close behind and rising.

According to Alan Meckler, chief executive of Mediabistro, there will be anywhere between six and 10 IPOs of 3-D printing companies in Asia in the coming years, as the technology begins to resemble to growth of the internet. "It sparks the creative juices of entrepreneurs," said Meckler.