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Shutterfly to close Durham production facility from Spoonflower acquisition News 

Shutterfly to close Durham production facility from Spoonflower acquisition

Just two years since personalized photo products leader Shutterfly bought custom fabric maker Spoonflower for $225 million, the company is shutting down its 3871 S. Alston Ave, Durham, N.C., production facility, idling 108 workers. The move continues a series of facility closures and layoffs by Shutterfly over the past six months. According to the Triangle BizJournal, most separations will start... Read More
NRF: First quarter showed challenges of bringing inflation under control Market research News 

NRF: First quarter showed challenges of bringing inflation under control

Slower-but-continued growth in gross domestic product and other economic indicators during the first quarter showed the difficulty of bringing inflation under control, National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz said in the May issue of NRF’s Monthly Economic Review. “The World Health Organization says the pandemic is over, and the U.S. government has ended its declaration of a public health... Read More
Epson introduces Legacy Baryta II paper News 

Epson introduces Legacy Baryta II paper

Epson introduced its newest addition to the portfolio of Legacy Papers – Legacy Baryta II.  Inspired by the legendary f/64 Group of photographers, Baryta II is an OBA-free 100% cotton fiber paper with a true baryta coating. Designed for use by professional photographers, fine artists, galleries, museums, and collectors, this true Baryta paper offers an industry leading microporous coating for rich blacks and... Read More
Glossy Finish to license GF Crew technology platform News 

Glossy Finish to license GF Crew technology platform

Sports and event photography company Glossy Finish announced it has begun offering its full technology platform for those photographers that want to grow their business photographing tournaments in a similar way as Glossy Finish. The current GF Crew app offering, popular among weekend photographers and pros, will remain. The company said the GF Crew/Pro platform is the same model used... Read More
Kodak photo paper and chemicals fade from the market News 

Kodak photo paper and chemicals fade from the market

Sino Promise Group, the China-based maker of Kodak-branded photographic paper and chemicals for professional and amateur photofinishing, notified customers the company will “no longer be offering” the products, according to correspondence provided to the Dead Pixels Society. Sino Promise has not responded to requests for comment. Unconfirmed reports from photo labs say the sales team has already been dismissed. The... Read More
Profoto’s first-quarter sales up 16.5 percent; organic growth flat News 

Profoto’s first-quarter sales up 16.5 percent; organic growth flat

Swedish lighting company Profoto said first-quarter net sales totaled SEK 229 million (compared to 196 million), an increase of 16.5 percent. Organic growth totaled 0.0 percent, the currency effect was 7.3 percent, and the effect of acquisitions was 9.1 percent. Key ratios, Group Jan–Mar 2023 Jan–Mar 2022 Apr 2022– Mar 2023 Full year 2022 Net sales, SEKm 229 196 880... Read More
White Wall debuts fine art prints laminated on Alu-Dibond News 

White Wall debuts fine art prints laminated on Alu-Dibond

High-end photo lab WhiteWall debuted fine-art prints on Alu-Dibon, featuring high-resolution and solvent-free fine art prints on four papers available from Hahnemühle and Canson. The stable Alu-Dibond backing is particularly suitable for very large formats and is, therefore, the best choice for special presentations, the company said. This product does not need glass or acrylic sealing, so offers a clear... Read More
Third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA set for Sept. 20 News 

Third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA set for Sept. 20

C.A.T.-Publishing Thomas Bloemer GmbH announced the third ImagingExecutives@PHOTOPIA conference, taking place Sept. 20, 2023, in the Chicago room of the Hamburg exhibition center. To avoid conflict with the main PHOTOPIA Hamburg event, the executive conference will be held a day prior to the Sept. 21-23 run dates of the show. Event organizer Thomas Bloemer advises the event will run from 9:00... Read More
Felix Schoeller Photo Award winners announced Events News 

Felix Schoeller Photo Award winners announced

This year’s winners of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award were announced at a ceremony in Osnabrück on May 4. Alain Schroeder (Belgium) won in the “Photojournalism” category with his work “Muay Thai Kids”, the “Sustainability” prize went to the Italian photographer Simone Tramonte for his series “New ways to the future” and the popular prize in the “Portrait” category went... Read More
SPOA adds Bambee as HR partner News 

SPOA adds Bambee as HR partner

School Photographers of America (SPOA) announces a partnership with Bambee, a leading U.S. human resources company providing small businesses the ability to simplify human resource management by automating HR tasks and providing a dedicated HR Manager to navigate employee and business compliance complexities. Bambee’s features go beyond essential HR management and payroll processing. Bambee helps businesses comply with HR regulations... Read More
Register now for the Creative Path seminar Events News 

Register now for the Creative Path seminar

The Dead Pixels Society presents “The Creative Path,” an innovative webinar showing how harnessing creativity can drive your business. As the business has grown more transactional, it’s imperative to counterbalance that instinct with creative and emotional thought. In the coming Imagination Age, where creativity is the new currency, the only avenue of true connection is on an emotive level—a position... Read More
Emerald Holding reports 17% year-over-year organic revenue News 

Emerald Holding reports 17% year-over-year organic revenue

Emerald Holding, Inc., America’s largest producer of trade shows and their associated conferences including WPPI, reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. The company reported revenues of $122.3 million for the first quarter 2023, an increase of $23.8 million, or 24.2%, primarily on growth in events that staged in both Q1 2023 and Q1 2022, and... Read More