A solution to the months-long internal conflict over the Chairmanship of the Executive Board of the Neumüller Cewe Color Foundation was already announced in November with the appointment of Yvonne Rostock. At the turn of the year, both the previous Chairman of the Executive Board, Dr. Christian Friege, and Dr. Rolf Hollander, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, have departed the company.
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Even though the past year has shown how interwoven – and thus vulnerable – the markets and their players are, print shops can look to the new year with a certain degree of confidence. Certainly those who have taken the volatility of recent years as an opportunity to align their structures and processes with this “new normal” – and see not only challenges but also opportunities in the trends. What will influence the online print world in 2023?
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With just a few clicks, you can configure more than 100 products online, including enveloped mailings, postcards, self-mailers or brochures – and everything is quick and easy, with same-day delivery if desired. With this concept, OMS Online Mailing Service GmbH from Kaarst convinced the jury of Druck&Medien Awards 2022 and thus received the IOP Award as the most innovative online printer of the year.
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On 23 and 24 March 2023, the Online Print Symposium (OPS) will celebrate a milestone birthday: for the 10th time, the OPS will take place in Munich and attract industry giants and newcomers alike to the Science Congress Center Munich. Renowned speakers will talk about Mass Customization, Digital Commerce, Digital Transformation, Web-to-Print and Crisis Management, among other topics.
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Never before have there been so many: The Initiative Online Print e.V. (IOP) accepted a record number of new members into its circle at the autumn meeting on 2 and 3 November 2022 at Onlineprinters GmbH in Neustadt an der Aisch. The high level of interest once again confirms how important it is for the exchange of ideas among one another, especially in difficult times.
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While the price spiral for energy and raw materials continues to climb, prices in online printing passed their highest point for the time being in the third quarter of the year and reached a plateau. This is the result of the latest ZOPI, the zipcon online print Price Index, which is compiled quarterly by zipcon consulting.
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Personalized books are not new – however, a platform that provides uncomplicated market access for the creative minds behind the stories and at the same time offers the customizable books to end customers certainly is. Appropriately named TwoWorlds, the new marketplace for personalized books enables just that.
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As part of its growth strategy, msp druck und medien GmbH in Mudersbach has acquired the Hamburg-based family holding company Schürfeld-Group as a new co-partner. KNOX Management and HR Consultancy from Hamburg accompanied this process. The msp Group is a provider of highly individualized printing, mailing.
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Of course, there are also new women or diverse individuals! (But in 1982 Ina Deter sang “the country needs new men”. The gender asterisk did not yet exist.) And the people (m/f/d) don’t really have to be new, but need some skills for the digitalized and networked world that has always been important, but can now be decisive.
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The two companies have belonged together since July 2021. Now Integrated Realization Services GmbH (IRS) from Nuremberg, which specialises in programmatic printing and web to print, has been completely merged, both legally and organisationally, into Laudert GmbH + Co KG. The merger, which came into effect on 1 October but is retroactive to 1 July, is intended to make better use of synergy effects.
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