When it comes to M&A activity, 2024 turned out to be a year of thoughtful, strategic decisions. One company that pulled the acquisition trigger was Traverse City, Michigan-based TentCraft, which closed its acquisition of World Class Displays in the fourth quarter.
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Steven Flaughers, owner of Proforma 3rd Degree, discusses his history in print and promo, asking the right questions and finding the right opportunities in unexpected places.
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We sat down with Mark Hahn, senior managing director and founder, Graphic Arts Advisors, to get his perspective on what wide-format printers need to know about M&A activity.
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The supplier manufactures mainly paper-based products at its St. Charles, IL-based facility.
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Stephanie Stuckey, chair of roadside oasis Stuckey’s, provides tips and tales that will help breathe fresh life into a business in this preview of her keynote at the ASI Show Orlando 2025.
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With a family history spanning nearly five decades, the company has grown to become a significant force in the label industry, driven by a service-first culture and a commitment to quality.
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The company’s fourth-generation leader speaks on adapting to change and focusing on what really matters – respect.
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S&S CEO Frank Myers sat for a Q&A that focused on the massive acquisition involving two of the industry’s largest suppliers.
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This article originally appeared in Printing Impressions. Asked why the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) places such a high priority on innovation, Greg Estep gets right to the point. “If you don’t innovate, you won’t be relevant,” Estep, managing director of plant operations at the 163-year-old agency, the federal government’s official printer and publisher, says. “You can’t use the same solutions you used years ago when people were available.” GPO has suffered the same labor shortages as the rest of the printing industry, but has used them as a catalyst…
Read MorePrint & Promo Marketing’s ongoing feature series, Executive Perspectives, tells the personal entrepreneurial stories of leading professionals in the print and promotional products industry. This month, we interviewed Casey Duke, partner at Metrographics (asi/268937) in Fairfield, NJ. In our chat, Duke discussed everything from taking over the reins from his father and modernizing the business, to adapting in hard times. How did you get started in the industry? What path did you take to your current role? Casey Duke: The business was started by my father back in the mid-1980s.…
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