GLG News by Commercial Printing Market Experts

The release yesterday of Adobe CS3 will have a far reaching impact into the convergent content management world.With the integration of Macromedia and Adobe products into one seamless offering the designers of the world will now be able to repurpose content from the print world to Internet with one...

1.Viacom is one of the most advertising savvy media companies. 2. Will the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect Google / Youtube as they profit dearly from other’s copyright?

A highly secretive ex-Canon inventor, Kia Silverbrook, is preparing to make a 'technology / product' announcement at an ink jet technical conference in Prague next week.  Lyra, an industry tracking firm, is touting this as a 'game changing' technology.  But is it truly game changing, or is...

Extremely large upfront costs for the carriers

There can be. In the spirit of first things first, cleaning up their operations, processes and balance sheet is absolutely necessary. It’s key to creating a solid foundation to support their next step – injecting vision, creativity and badly needed brand personality into their small stores, and making...

When a giant like Microsoft releases it’s biggest new product in over 5 years, you can’t deny it’s big. And, while many of the improvements are similar to what’s been available for some time on the Mac OS, it’s evolutionary, not revolutionary, but big. Vista to Mac ratio is 20:1. 

Ricoh has announced an agreement with IBM to purchase the IBM Print Systems over the next three years.  This is the 'high end' printing group that IBM kept after spinning off printer maker Lexmark.While this only represents a $1B increase in revenues to Ricoh, it is strategically important for...

And they are. Whether it’s manufacturers opening retail stores or retailers getting into the manufacturing business, it’s happening, and it’s working. Apple, Sony, Nokia, and Bose retail stores; Sear’s Craftsman, Safeway’s Organics, Best Buy’s Insignia, Costco’s Kirkland brands are a few good examples...

China's fiber (both virgin market pulp and recycled) is growing at a faster pace than anyone could have predicted.Their major companies, Nine Dragons Paper for example, are planning enormous new paper mills of massive proportions which will require huge amounts of OCC. Their proposed Chongquing mill...

Focus on CEO motives and thought processes is important.Seidenberg may not see AT & T as his major competitor. His eyes are probably on Comcast.Have you ever noticed how often we go from being big for scale and then back to lean and mean?Who are the beneficiaries of all of this?