This Week in Imaging: COVID-19 Accelerating Lower Page Volumes, Fewer Product Introductions
One thing a crisis tends to do is accelerate trends. For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the trend......
Canon / Epson / Fuji Xerox / HP / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 19, 2020 · Last modified July 27, 2020
One thing a crisis tends to do is accelerate trends. For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the trend......
Brother / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 15, 2020 · Last modified June 23, 2020
On July 12th, office-supply store Staples US Retail announced a collaboration with Instacart to launch same-day delivery from more than......
Industry trade group, Recycling Times Media, which is based in China and represents the “remanufactured” toner-cartridge industry, continues to illegally post entire articles from Wirth Consulting without permission.
Bloomberg reports that private-equity firm Sycamore Partners is seeking to take most of its cash out of Staples Inc. “through a recapitalization that...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 14, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
One of the most interesting and potentially game-changing news items this week was Staples’ announcement that it had signed...
Staples, Inc. – which bills itself as “the world’s largest office-solutions provider” – announced today that it’s signed an agreement...
Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 14, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
International office-supply chain store Staples, which is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, reported today that private-equity firm Sycamore Partners has completed...
3D Printing / Canon / Executive Management / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Imaging Supplies / Inkjet / Legal Proceedings / Market Reports & Forecasts / Memjet / Mergers & Acquisitions / Patent-Infringement / Samsung / Toshiba / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 30, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Will the drama at Toshiba Corporation ever end?* While, as we’ve pointed out several times, Toshiba America Business Solutions (TABS)......
Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores / Partnerships
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 29, 2017 · Last modified February 5, 2018
Office-supplies chain Staples reported yesterday that Sycamore Partners, a private-equity firm, will acquire Staples for approximately $6.9 billion. Under the...
3D Printing / Brother / Canon / Cloud / Commercial & Production Printing / Document Scanning / Financial News / Hewlett-Packard / Kyocera / Large Format / Lexmark / Ricoh / Scanners / Sharp / Toshiba
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 17, 2017 · Last modified March 28, 2017
During his campaign last year, U.S. President Donald Trump stated several times that he would impose tariffs on products made......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 14, 2017 · Last modified March 18, 2017
Fortune reports that office-supply store Staples said last week that it will close another 70 stores in North America “amid sharp...
Executive Management / Financial News / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 2, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Staples reports that it’s completed its sale to Cerberus Capital Management Staples will retain a 15 percent equity interest in...
Electronics for Imaging / News / Office Superstores / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 13, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Last week, Xerox announced a new partnership with Electronics for Imaging (EFI) and Staples under which it’s introduced self-serve kiosk......
3D Printing / Canon / Document Scanning / Financial News / HP / Market Reports & Forecasts / Nuance / Samsung / Scanners
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 24, 2016 · Last modified December 6, 2016
The new Samsung Smart MultiXpress M5360RX A4 black-and-white copier/MFP that was launched this week is intriguing for a number of......
Financial News / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 23, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
According to the BBC, the U.S. owner of Staples has sold Staples’ U.K. arm, which employs some 1,100 people in...
3D Printing / Canon / Epson / Fuji Xerox / Hewlett-Packard / Inkjet / Samsung / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 15, 2016 · Last modified July 27, 2016
Among the world’s many intractable conflicts, one that probably won’t ever be solved in our lifetime is the issue of......
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