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DMIA's Award-Winning E-Mail Newsletter for Members Only
November
12, 2004
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NEWS
The New Hanging Chad
Hanging chads are old news. The
latest impediment to voting is...humidity?
Oswego County election officials couldn't tally 800 to 900 absentee ballots
because their scanner kept jamming. Fortunately, Dee Brown, sales manager at
Parsons, Kan.-based manufacturer <http://www.fleshco.com> The Flesh Co., did
her part on Nov. 4 to ensure all votes were counted. Brown, whose daughter
worked at the polls, stopped by to visit when she spotted the problem. "Those
pages had picked up moisture and made them extremely curly and uneven," she
says.
The ballots had been sitting around for weeks. Brown ran a batch of fresh
forms through the machine to prove it worked, then instructed officials to get a
hair drier. A worker brought his drier from home, and Brown and her daughter
started drying the ballots at the County Clerk's office. There's no right way to
blow-dry a ballot, Brown notes with a smile, but for the record, her daughter
held the drier while Brown fanned small stacks of ballots in front of it. "You
could physically see the difference after we did it," Brown says.
Brown's actions earned her more than pride at fulfilling her civic duty. A
Parsons Sun reporter learned about the incident and turned it into a front-page
story. Before long, the Associated Press picked up the story and distributed it
nationwide. "I meant to be there for five minutes, and it probably ended up
being two hours," Brown says. Now she's receiving letters from readers across
the country.
<http://www.internationalpaper.com/>
International Paper Sells New England Land to <http://www.gmo.com/index.asp>
GMO
International Paper Co. (IP), Stamford, Conn., sold 1.1 million
acres of New England timberland to GMO Renewable Resources LLC, Stamford, for
approximately $250 million. Sale of the land, located in Maine and New
Hampshire, is expected to close by the first quarter of 2005, the company said.
The companies also have agreed to a long-term deal that will supply wood fiber
to two of IP's paper mills in Maine. IP also will provide GMO with forest
management services.
<http://www.averydennison.com>
Avery Dennison Says It Expects to Be Fined
Avery Dennison Corp.,
Pasadena, Calif., disclosed that it expects to be fined by European regulators
for "instances of improper conduct" by workers in its European operations. In a
Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the company said the misconduct was
uncovered during an internal probe. An investigation was started this year after
European regulators began to scrutinize Avery Dennison as part of a wider
antitrust probe of possible price fixing and manipulation of the European paper
market.
<http://www.margraphics.com/>
MAR Graphics Buys Digital Press
MAR Graphics, Valmeyer, Ill.,
recently purchased a Nipson VaryPress 400 digital press (600 dpi at up to 410
ft. per minute) to be integrated inline with a Hunkeler Variweb finishing line.
MAR says it is the first print and fulfillment operation in the U.S. to install
an integrated print and finishing line with this degree of flexibility, which
will streamline production involving variable data, integrated cards, glue, die
cut, fold, and mail. The company says it will be able to produce complex
ready-to-ship self-mailers from pre-printed rolls in one non-stop
process.
<http://www.printexpackaging.com/index.htm>
Printex Packaging To Manufacture Conformer Expansion
Envelopes
<http://www.conformerproducts.com/>
Conformer Expansion Products, Great Neck, N.Y., announced that Printex Packaging
Corp., Islandia, N.Y., has become the latest licensed manufacturer of Conformer®
Expansion Envelopes. Printex Packaging, the originator of the clear
plastic-folding carton, will manufacture Conformer Expansion Envelopes in all
sizes using a variety of clear plastic materials.
<http://www.staples.com>
Staples Launches Paperless Rebates
Staples Inc., Framingham, Mass.,
launched Staples Easy Rebates(SM), a paperless online rebate process to make
retail shopping easier with simple and trackable rebates. Staples retail,
catalog and online customers now can submit rebate information online for
hundreds of items, eliminating the need for the lengthy product rebate process.
Easy Rebates alerts the customer at checkout if there are rebate eligible
products within an order and directs them to <http://www.stapleseasyrebates.com>
www.stapleseasyrebates.com. The
online tool walks the customer through a submission process and then
automatically sends emails indicating the rebate status, including when the
rebate check is mailed.
SALES AND MARKETING TIP
Want to Keep Customers, Create Profits?
Here are five
pointers that can help you enhance your customers' experience. <http://www.workz.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl_page.html?template=3&content=2917&nav1=1&>
Full story.
E-COMMERCE SPOTLIGHT
Shoppers Looking at More, Still Abandoning Carts
Visitors
are spending less time on more pages, onsite search queries convert more sales
than ever and shopping cart abandonment continues to be a problem for online
retailers, according to a new study.
<http://www.e-commerceguide.com/news/trends/article.php/3432551>
Full story.
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
Book of Product Specification Guides
This book, offered
at a special price of $20, contains a unique collection of 16 checklists and
guidelines to gather complete ordering specifications for popular business
printing products. Included are detailed checklists in camera-ready form for
business forms products, non-impact printed products, roll products, mailers,
pressure sensitive labels, tags and more. Code: FACTBK. $20. To order, contact
<mailto:tdavis@dmia.org> Tina
Davis.
HOT SITES
<http://www.GiftCertificates.com>
Gift Certificates Galore
This site offers original gift certificates
from hundreds of merchants—the same gift certificates you would buy from the
store. The site claims it has largest original gift certificates available
online, including favorite stores, airlines, hotels, theaters, restaurants and
more.
<http://www.GiftCertificates.com>
Visit the site.
<http://www.onewarmcoat.org/index.php>
One Warm Coat
Do you own several warm coats? Do you need them all?
If you're ready to turn a superfluous outer garment into some inner peace, check
in with this site to see where coats are being collected in your
neighborhood—and how you can help organize a local coat drive. <http://www.onewarmcoat.org/index.php>
Visit the site.
<http://www.printe-z.com/ImprintedComputerChecks.html?trk=print=solutions>
SOLUTION OF THE WEEK
Direct Mail Pulls In New Customers
Scott Christopher
Homes of Distinction, a homebuilder in Holland, Mich., wanted a direct mail
piece that would appeal to owners of million-dollar homes. Most of the company's
success had resulted from referrals, but its new service, a maintenance and
renovation spin-off called Surpass, needed to establish its presence. The
homebuilder interviewed 25 firms before hiring Grand-Rapids, Mich.-based <http://www.squareonedesign.com>
Square One Design. <http://www.dmia.org/sol_center/enewsletter/enews_articles/sow111204.html>
Full story.
WHAT'S NEW AT DMIA?
CEO Summit
This year's program is packed with
information, discussions and details you need to further your success. Join your
fellow members with sales volumes of more than $2.5 million in St. Petersburg,
Fla., Feb. 2-4, for what has proven year after year to be a great program!
<http://www.dmia.org/em/ceosummit.html>
Click here for more.
Small Distributor Summit
This summit is for distributors
with sales volume below $2.5 million. The program has new topics, new
technologies and new insights. Designed by member distributors, this program
brings top-notch education in a format that works for you. Your peers developed
all of the programs, the schedule and the manufacturer sessions. Join us March
12-14 at Embassy Suites Outdoor World, Dallas. <http://www.dmia.org/em/smalldist.html>
Click here for more.
TOP TEN
Here are this week's top unusual source requests received by
DMIA:
1. Jigsaw Puzzle; 8" x 10"; prints 4cp; boxed in two versions; one for
small die-cut of puzzle pieces and one for large die-cut; QTY=75M each of 2
2. In-Mold Labels; 6 1/4" x 2 15/16"; prints 2-4PMS; QTY=10M-50M
3. Compressed Sponges; prints 1 color; QTY=1M-2.5M
4. Direct Mail Piece; Brown Kraft lunch bag with a 2 color insert
affixed to the inside; bags will print 1-2 colors or will be blank; QTY=1.5M
5. Garland; 4 1/2"; Red Metallic; QTY=1M Linear Feet
6. Decoder Cards (red or blue film); prints 4cp; affixed to an 8 1/2" x
3 1/2" cut sheet; prints 4cp; QTY=500M-1MM
7. Small Ticket; approx. 3" x 3 1/2"; padded or stapled to form books
of 100 tickets; 1" consecutive number in center of sheet; numbered 001-100 and
reset to 001 for the next book; QTY=10M books
8. Laser Cut Sheets; 8 1/2" x 14"; static MICR numbering in 4
locations; QTY=10M
9. Plastic Tumbler; 24 oz.; prints 1 color; QTY=50M+
10. Temporary Cardboard License Plates; prints 1 color; affixed
hologram; consecutive jumbo numbering; self laminating; QTY=200M-400M
If you have a source request—for anything—call the Hotline at (800) 333-2828
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, or use the <http://64.115.51.134/index.htm>
Source Hotline Database online. For new sales ideas every day, try our <http://www.dmia.org/dmiasearch/am_pm/search/index.cfm>
1,000 Sales Ideas Database. Manufacturers, if you produce any of these items and
would like to check your listing with the Source Hotline, please email <mailto:crush@dmia.org> Cheryl Rush.
The E-weekly is designed by Christine Kenny and edited by Preeti Vasishtha
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