Two Sides; Changing Attitudes on Print & Paper

Two Sides launches largest sustainability campaign:
It is the biggest campaign ever to be put forward by the graphic communications value chain, believes Two Sides' Martyn Eustace.
It aims to change consumer attitudes towards the sustainability of print media based on research conducted by Two Sides and IPSOS. In September 2011, 5000 consumer interviews found that 80% media users preferred reading from paper than a screen.

American Catalog Markerters Continue Fight

http://chiefmarketer.com/blog/under-appreciated-catalog

Hamilton Davison, president of the American Catalog Marketers Assn. is trying to rouse organization members living in Republican Congressional districts to hassle their Congress people early and often enough to get them to pull that underwater provision, part of the bill calls for increasing the rates on mail categories that don’t bring in enough revenue to cover their mailing costs.

ABM and PPA Form Alliance

http://www.foliomag.com/2012/abm-forms-strategic-alliance-uk-s-ppa

ABM, the association of business information and media companies, has formed a strategic alliance with the Professional Publishers Association (PPA), an ABM counterpart in the UK, which also serves consumer media.

Analogue Dollars & Digital Dimes

Are You Swapping Analogue Dollars for Digital Dimes?: If you follow the traditional publishing business model in an ever more digital world, it is inevitable. The traditional magazine business model is based on creating content to attract eyeballs, and then to sell exposure (advertising) to them. This basic plan has kept magazine publishers profitable for over a hundred years. But this model faces harsh challenges in today's digital media world.

Ennis Reports Q1 Results

Ennis Reports Net Sales Decrease in Q1 2012: Our consolidated net sales were $142.5 million for the quarter ended May 31, 2012 compared to $143.3 million for the quarter ended May 31, 2011. Print sales for the current quarter were $87.3 million, compared to $67.1 million for the same quarter last year, or an increase of 30.1%. Apparel sales for the current quarter were $55.2 million, compared to $76.1 million for the same quarter last year, or a decrease of 27.5%.

Goss Names New CEO

Goss Appoints New CEO: Goss International Corporation (“Goss”) today announced a restructuring of management. The Board has appointed Mr. Richard Nichols as CEO of the Company, effective immediately, replacing Mr. Jochen Meissner.The Board expects that the Goss management team, headed by Mr. Nichols, will undertake active and effective measures to stabilize and expand the Goss leadership position in the industry.

EURO-GRAPH Releases May Coated Ships

EURO-GRAPH reported May European shipments of coated mechanical paper fell -8.4% and demand was down -11.1% as compared to the same month last year. Exports rose +1.2%. Coated woodfree shipments declined -3.5%, demand decreased -1.1% and exports were down -12.4%. Supercalendered paper shipments fell -2.9%, demand declined -2.7% and exports decreased -3.6%

Most Sartell Workers Layed Off, Legislature Could Consider Special Aid

http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012306250029

Officials from Verso on Monday acknowledged layoff notices had been given to most of the work force at their Sartell plant in the wake of the Memorial Day explosion and fire that rendered the plant inoperable. Meanwhile, state Senate Majority Leader David Senjem said another recent disaster may open the door for legislators to discuss state aid for Verso. Senjem said recovery aid for the Verso incident, which killed one person and injured four others, should be considered during a potential special legislative session to mull flood relief for the Duluth area. Gov. Mark Dayton has authority to call a special session, and has said one is possible to provide state aid to the Duluth region after the severe floods that occurred there last week.

Resolute Idles Catawba's PM 1

Resolute Forest Products plans to shut its 150,000 tons/yr lightweight coated paper machine PM 1 at Catawba mill in South Carolina indefinitely on Saturday. The company said layoffs will start July 2.

Shandong Huatai Starts Paper Machine

China's Shandong Huatai Paper has started up a 150,000 tonne/yr uncoated fine paper (UFP) unit and a 150,000 tonne/yr bleached kraft pulp line at a new mill in Anqing city, Anhui province.

Cataloguers Fight House Postal Bill

Cataloguers push back against postal legislation: The American Catalog Mailers Association is criticizing a postal reform bill that, if passed, would legislate rate increases, bypassing the typical process of rate approval via the Postal Regulatory Commission.

Hearst Plans Private Ad-Buying Marketplace

http://adage.com/print/235623

Another big magazine company is looking to ad tech to make its online ad inventory more valuable.

Six months after Conde Nast launched a private ad marketplace to increase the sell-through of its online ad space without opening it up ot public ad exchanges, Hearst Magazines' digital unit -- Hearst Digital Media -- is starting to work with an ad-tech vendor on its own exchange.

InfoTrends: Top Trends in Print

InfoTrends Forecasts Shift in On Demand Printing and Publishing Market: InfoTrends has identified the top trends in the U.S. print on demand market in its recently published U.S. Production Printing & Copying Market Forecast: 2011-2016. In this forecast, InfoTrends sees that the success of high-speed continuous-feed color inkjet devices foreshadows a clear shift in the on demand printing and publishing market.

Marketers Scale Back for June

Warc: Marketers see confidence, spending fall marginally: Marketing budgets and hiring worldwide were scaled back in June, according to a report from marketing services information company Warc, as confidence fell in response to the Eurozone debt crisis and an economic slowdown in China.

World Media Closes Newspaper Buys

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/content/media-general-completes-sale-newspapers-warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway

Media General, Inc. today completed the previously announced sale of 63 daily and weekly newspapers to World Media Enterprises, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., for $142 million in cash, subject to adjustment for working capital and other items.

New York Times on Flipboard

http://allthingsd.com/20120624/the-new-york-times-gets-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-all-of-it-into-flipboard/

The New York Times’ subscribers will soon be able read the entire paper on the aggregation/recommendation app. The news is important for Flipboard because it marks the first time the start-up has convinced a big publisher to give it full access to its “premium” content. Previously it has let users sample bits of stuff from magazines, newspapers and the like.

First Full-Scale Green Liquor Plant

First full-scale plant for green liquor filtration in the world
Munksjö Aspa Bruk AB will install the first full-scale plant for green liquor filtration in the world based on the unique method developed by the Clean Flow AB. The process has been successful in operation and evaluated for two years at Aspa mill.

RRD Introduces ProteusJet Multiweb Platform Apps

RR Donnelley Introduces Series of ProteusJet Multiweb Platform Apps: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company today introduced a series of applications for its new ProteusJet Multiweb platform. ProteusJet enables sophisticated credit, telecom and cable, retail and insurance marketers to manage one-to-one communications to maximize revenues.

April Recovered Paper Demand Up 3%

http://www.paperage.com/2012news/06_25_2012recovered_fiber_afpa.html

The American Forest & Paper Association released its May 2012 U.S. Recovered Fiber Monthly Report today. According to the report, total U.S. industry consumption of recovered paper in May was 2.54 million tons, 3% higher than April 2012. Year-to-date consumption in 2012 is 3% lower than during the same period last year.

Catalyst Announces Plan Update

Catalyst Paper today announced an update on the further amended plan of arrangement (Amended Plan) under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Catalyst Paper has reached an agreement in principle with certain additional holders of its 7 3/8% senior notes due March 1, 2014 (Unsecured Notes) on the terms of a settlement and support agreement (Agreement) to be entered into with respect to the Amended Plan. These additional holders, who voted against the prior Plan of Arrangement, hold approximately US$120 million aggregate principal amount of outstanding Unsecured Notes.