Business Strategies for the Distributor Sales Professional
St. Paul, Minnesota-based Deluxe Corporation announced its financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012.
Revenue and diluted EPS exceeded the high end of the range in the prior outlook due primarily to better than expected check and forms performance in Small Business Services and Financial Services and lower discretionary spend.
St. Paul, Minnesota-based Deluxe Corporation has acquired the net operating assets of PSPrint LLC, an Oakland, California-based provider of online printing services, including custom graphic design, direct mailing list creation and direct mail fulfillment.
St. Paul, Minnesota-based Printware, the longest-standing independent manufacturer of high-quality, high-performance polyester CtP solutions, announced it is now shipping its expanded line of SilverStream® polyester plate material line for use in CtP systems from equipment suppliers including AB Dick/Presstek, Agfa, ECRM, Escher-Grad, Fuji, Heidelberg, Konica, Linotype, Mitsubishi, PrePRESS Solutions, Scitex, Screen and Xante/RipIt to mention a few.
St. Paul, Minnesota-based Crystal D, a leading supplier of corporate awards and plaques, announced an updated product safety policy as well as a dedicated contact for specific product safety questions.
Woe to sidekicks. The ever-underrated second bananas never get their moments in the sun. Worse, they’re the ones who usually have to take the bullet so the hero can live to fight another day. Replaceable, that’s what they are. Sure, time can fly, heal all wounds and save nine in a single stitch. But without its partner, the calendar, what would be there to bring order to time’s crazy impulses? Okay, so the calendar has a tendency to run out when time has seemingly met its match (i.e., December 31, every year), but it always comes back renewed and ready to face another day.
Thanks to a new partnership agreement with the product and supply chain security company Verify Brand, St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M’s brand protection and authentication product line will offer customers the additional capability of confirming product authenticity, location and tracking of products via the Web, using secure mass serialization technology. The two companies will work together to combine 3M’s extensive array of materials-based security solutions and Verify Brand’s experience with its unique and patent-pending electronic product authentication solution. The agreement will allow 3M to sell, market and produce the Verify Brand platform of software products and services as an additional security layer to its customers
