TORONTO—

 St. Joseph Communications ( Printing) has bought the magazine division of Rogers.  All printing will be moved to St. Joseph printing plant in Concord. Most of Rogers magazines have been printed by Transcontinental at it's plant in Aurora. How much of a dent it will make in the Aurora plants operation is not known. Titles such as Maclean's Magazine, Chatelaine, Hello and Today's Parents will be joining St. Joseph's publishing division.

MONTREAL—

Pazazz Printing has been bought out of creditor protection and incorporated under a new company. Former President and founder Warren Werbitt has left the company. Warren had build a reputation in the industry, on his passionate videos on printing.  Marc Giroux who joined the company in July has taken over as president and will be directing the company on a daily bases. Pazazz Printing has a staff of about 50.

BEDFORD , NOVA SCOTIA—

ROCHESTER, NY—

 Xerox is closing almost of half its 186 Xerox Business Solutions (XBS)  locations.  Sales teams to work remotely, and laying off support staff, as part of a massive consolidation. Xerox rebranded its Global Imaging Systems division as Xerox Business Solutions  earlier this year.

MONTREAL—

  Night fire at Litho Rosemont on March 5  has caused over $1 million in damages. When a crew of approximately 70 firefighters arrived, the blaze had spread from the second floor to the roof. Litho Rosemont lost a 5 colour speed master 74, Hidelberg cylinder and most of their bindery equipment. Their wide format and digital presses were spared. The company has relocated to Laval and was able to find a 6 colour Speedmaster 74 with coater in Calafornia .

EUROPE—

NORWALK, CONN—

Xerox Corp announced  a change in its corporate structure into a holding company after which it will become part of that new holding company as a wholly owned unit. The structure of holding company allows a  firm to protect its patents, lowering its taxes and to diversify the businesses of its units.

RICHMOND HILL (ONT.)—

TORONTO—

 Michael Corbett has joined TI Group as Vice President Operations. Michael comes to TI Group with a proven track record of operations, gained through senior leadership roles which he has held at Webcom, Symcor,  Data Group and most recently at Bellwyck Packaging . In his capacity as VP Operations, Michael will report directly to Peter Spring, President TI Group. "

UNITED STATES—

 Since 1997, the value of printing shipments went from around 0.75% of GDP all the way down to about 0.35%. After the recovery in July 2009, things looked like they were evening out, but they just kept going down. Essentially, this is the story of technology. Printing shipments as a percentage of GDP started to plummet when the Internet truly “arrived” circa 1996 and while we can blame the recession for some of the drop