Business Management - Industry Trends

BethAnn Telford, special events coordinator at the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), isn’t your ordinary printing industry marathon runner — she is fighting brain cancer and preparing to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days. It’s called the World Marathon Challenge and only 26 people have completed the challenge to date — five of them were women.

Xerox has announced it has completed the separation of Conduent Inc., creating two market-leading, publicly-traded companies.

For those in the printing and packaging industries, it's hard not to look back at 2016 with positivity. We had an amazing drupa, groundbreaking innovation in printing technologies, and packaging has become the industry's hottest growth area. For a look back at the year that was, we made a list of five of our top stories as determined by you, the reader.

A routine visit to the health and beauty aisle of a store resulted in a humorous viral video for a 22-year-old man from Virginia, when he noticed the similar packaging used in products aimed toward men. The video points out how men's products tend to be packaged in similar dark colors, and has received more than 50,000 retweets.

DataLase had a very busy 2016, in which it launched its in-line digital printing technology, attended major international exhibitions and received industry recognized awards.

A glass of wine and a good book is an unquestioningly winning combination. But can a wine label transform into a book right on the bottle? Reverse Innovation has designed a series of wine labels for Librottiglia that do exactly that.

“Amazement or nostalgia” is how Frank Romano, world-renowned printing expert and Rochester Institute of Technology professor emeritus, would describe a typical visitor’s reaction when entering The Museum of Printing, a non-profit organization based in Haverhill, Mass.

With 2017 right around the corner, Mintel has announced five packaging trends that will have major global impacts over the course of the year. The company states that these trends will affect consumers, brands, retailers and package manufacturers.

A color that symbolizes freshness, rejuvenation and hope has been declared the 2017 Pantone Color of the Year. "Greenery," also known as PANTONE 15-0343, was given the prestigious title following a tumultuous political year in 2016.

François Martin, worldwide marketing director, Graphics Solutions Business, HP Inc., provides a look back at 2016 and a forecast for drupa 2020.