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Koch Equity Development invests $450 million for minority stake in Jostens News 

Koch Equity Development invests $450 million for minority stake in Jostens

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Platinum Equity portfolio company Jostens, the Minneapolis provider of custom class jewelry, graduation products, and yearbooks, announced a nearly $640 million recapitalization in connection with a $450 million strategic equity investment from an affiliate of Koch Equity Development LLC, the principal investing and acquisition arm of Koch, Inc., and a debt refinancing transaction. The equity investment is subject to consummation of the debt refinancing.... Read More
Jostens launches The Mascot Shop to serve schools for personalized products News 

Jostens launches The Mascot Shop to serve schools for personalized products

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Jostens announced The Mascot Shop, a platform for schools to offer personalized products using school-approved branding. The platform makes it easy to order spirit wear in bulk but also offers the added convenience of fulfilling individual orders online. This level of flexibility enables schools to minimize inventory risk while maximizing their overall reach, revenue, and fundraising potential. The platform’s bulk-ordering... Read More
Jostens joins Minneapolis office space downsizing trend News 

Jostens joins Minneapolis office space downsizing trend

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School ring maker, yearbook, and school photography company Jostens has become the latest corporation to join the office downsizing trend, announcing Wednesday it will sublease two of its three floors of headquarters space in a Bloomington, Minnesota, building, according to the Star Tribune. Jostens, which has been in the Minnesota Center building since 2018, has hired Monarch CRE to sublease... Read More
Jostens announces enhancements to Yearbook+ digital yearbook Updates 

Jostens announces enhancements to Yearbook+ digital yearbook

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Jostens announced enhancements to its exclusive Yearbook+ digital product, adding the ability to submit their portrait pictures directly to the yearbook. The company says, due to COVID-19, getting student portraits for the yearbook has been especially challenging. Each Jostens customer using the new portrait feature in Yearbook+ has access to a management site where the yearbook adviser has real-time access... Read More
Jostens adds features to help yearbooks staff tell their stories News 

Jostens adds features to help yearbooks staff tell their stories

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Jostens introduced updated set of J-Classes and Story Starter Surveys to help yearbook staffs capture the story of this unusual school year. “As more and more schools prepared to move classes online this fall due to COVID-19, we worked hard to provide game-changing resources designed specifically for their new environment,” says Tammy Whitaker, vice president, Jostens Yearbooks. “We released a... Read More
Jostens adds safety products to school offerings News 

Jostens adds safety products to school offerings

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Jostens launched Jostens Safety, a line of environmental and personal protective products to help schools meet enhanced safety requirements this fall. Jostens Safety products include personal protection kits of hand sanitizer, facemasks, thermometers, cleaning wipes, and surface disinfectant, as well as environmental signage, social distance floor graphics, and protective barriers for classrooms and cafeterias. The limited supply of products are available... Read More
Jostens adds signatures to digital yearbooks News 

Jostens adds signatures to digital yearbooks

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Jostens announced the release of a new website providing students with free digital yearbook signing pages, in response to COVID-19 separation. After registering at www.yearbooksigning.jostens.com, students can send their personalized web link to friends, requesting them to sign their yearbook. At that point, friends use the online platform to select fonts, colors, and stickers to write a note. As friends contribute... Read More
Herff Jones judgment against Jostens upheld News 

Herff Jones judgment against Jostens upheld

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Herff Jones, a division of Varsity Brands, announced the Alabama Supreme Court has upheld its unanimous verdict rendered a year ago in its favor in significant litigation against its biggest competitor, Jostens, Inc. The Alabama Supreme Court’s finding definitively resolves this matter and affirms the jury’s finding Jostens conspired and stole confidential and trade secret information, and interfered with Herff... Read More
Jostens enhances “virtual commencement” programs, closes Visalia plant News 

Jostens enhances “virtual commencement” programs, closes Visalia plant

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Jostens  is partnering with GRAMMY-winning songwriter and recording artist Lori McKenna to recognize her soon-to-be-released song as the official song of the Class of 2020. The song, scheduled for national release May 1, will be featured in Jostens free on-line “Virtual Commencement Centers”. Jostens Virtual Commencement Centers have been designed for the high school and college markets, and deliver exclusive... Read More
Jostens introduces free “Virtual Commencement” programs Marketing News 

Jostens introduces free “Virtual Commencement” programs

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Jostens has introduced free online “Virtual Commencement Centers” to help all high schools and colleges celebrate Class of 2020 graduates and preserve their schools’ graduation traditions despite the COVID-19 crisis. Jostens Virtual Commencement Centers have been designed for the high school and college markets, and deliver exclusive digital tools to help school leaders plan and execute a graduation ceremony on-line,... Read More
More industry notes from worldwide pandemic News Opinion 

More industry notes from worldwide pandemic

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As the global COVID-19 pandemic spreads, the impact on the photo/imaging industry has been unprecedented. Mass layoffs of retail staffs are commonplace, seasonal workers and photographers are dismissed and store hours have been limited or eliminated entirely. Still, the photo industry is resilient and we’ve been hearing promising stories from around the world. Certainly, this once-in-a-lifetime economic disaster is going... Read More
Jostens makes exclusive content available during COVID-19 outbreak News 

Jostens makes exclusive content available during COVID-19 outbreak

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Jostens announced it will be providing all students, parents, and educators more communication and distance learning activities due to COVID-19 through the public release of exclusive digital content and curriculum previously shared with customers only. Jostens is making its exclusive content available to the public for the next 30 days, pending further COVID-19 developments impacting schools. For students and parents,... Read More
Jostens names new yearbook ambassador, Casey Nichols, MJE People on the Move Press releases 

Jostens names new yearbook ambassador, Casey Nichols, MJE

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Nationally recognized yearbook adviser Casey Nichols, MJE, joins leading yearbook publisher Minneapolis, Aug. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jostens, the leading provider of yearbooks serving the K-12 and college markets, announced today that Casey Nichols, MJE, one of the nation’s top yearbook advisers, has joined the company as a yearbook Ambassador. Nichols, who has been recognized as a National High... Read More
Jostens announces leadership change People on the Move Press releases 

Jostens announces leadership change

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Chuck Mooty transitioning to Chairman, Michael Burgess to join as new CEO Minneapolis, Aug. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Jostens, the leading provider of publications, jewelry and consumer goods serving the K-12 and college market, has announced the appointment of Michal Burgess as the company’s new CEO.  After nearly six years of leadership, Chuck Mooty will step down from his current... Read More