Business Management - Operations

Activist investor Carl Icahn implored HP shareholders to pressure HP's board to expedite a mutual due diligence process and accept Xerox's $33.5 billion cash-and-stock acquisition offer. Meanwhile, Xerox CEO John Visentin is meeting with key HP shareholders to present Xerox's case.

Along with serving as director of the Government Publishing Office, Halpern will serve as the CEO, overseeing 1,700 employees. Prior to coming to the GPO, Halpern served in various positions on Capitol Hill, most recently as director of floor operations for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Verso announced the sale of two of its mills to Pixelle Specialty Solutions for $400 million. The sale is anticipated to be completed in the first quarter of 2020, and its net cash proceeds are anticipated to be approximately $336 million. Verso also announced that Adam St. John has been named CEO.

The former EFI executive will be primarily responsible for the development of a powerful new event initiative that will launch next year.

The restructuring plan over three years will reduce its global headcount of about 55,000 employees by 7,000-9,000 workers (13% to 16%).

Canon and Océ Holding B.V. announced the change of Canon Group Océ to Canon Production Printing. The change of the company name comes into effect as of January 1, 2020. Océ will continue to develop its core technologies and grow its market share as Canon Production Printing.

GPO is modernizing its publishing system, beginning to publish the 2018 main edition of the United State Code through XPub, the agency's new XML-based publishing technology. This is the GPO's first large-scale job on its new composition system.

Evaluating a digital press is a complicated process. We asked four in-plant managers to tell us what they learned throughout the installation process — and what they wish they had known in advance.

After a long search, Penn State University’s Multimedia and Print Center, one of the country's largest in-plants, has a new director.

Staffing issues have become one of most significant issues in-plants are struggling to overcome. In this new blog from Consultant Howie Fenton, he relates how one in-plant manager is handling this.