End-Buyer Research: Midwest

This week, our research focuses on end-buyers in the Midwest, one of the four regions throughout the United States we’re spotlighting.

Raise Prices the Right Way and Clients Will Love It!

Price increases are inevitable. Over the course of a career in this (or any other) industry, you will no doubt be faced with the challenge of delivering bad news to a customer: We are going to be charging you more for the same goods and services. The event…

Tech Print Disruption Rears in Digital Retail Labels & Online Tax Forms

There were a few pieces of news this week affecting the print industry status quo. Walmart revealed that it will introduce electronic labels for its aisles to be able to change displayed labels and prices within seconds. At the same time, the IRS announced the continued shift away from paper tax forms that need to…

Philadelphia Celebrates Juneteenth With Parade & Festival

The Civil War’s finale in April 1865 didn’t mark the end of slavery. Though the Emancipation Proclamation had been enacted two years prior, Abraham Lincoln’s decree that freed all slaves in the Confederacy couldn’t be enforced in still-contested states. Soldiers marched through the South months after the war ended, proclaiming slaves’ emancipation and enforcing it…