Business Management - Industry Trends

This week on Wide-Format Weekly, Women's History Month continues; highlights from FESPA 2024; printers receive insight on where they can learn more about interior design; we explore the concept of burst capacity; and we gear up for this year's Wide-Format Summit.

For those who embrace technological advancements, success is possible. For those who resist, defeat is inevitable. The choice is yours.

Chip Basse, president of Albert Basse Associates, shares details of his company's long history, which now focuses on wide-format display graphics.

As wide-format printing firms navigate through a transformative year, we witness a pivotal shift from expansion to consolidation. The evolving dynamics reveal a mature market poised for convergence, seeking resilience through specialization and tailored acquisition strategies.

Brian Hite, principal and founder of Image Options, discusses how the company has changed since its founding, the current state of the industry, and where he sees his business going.

Like any new market, there is always a lot to learn about how it operates. In an effort to learn more, I recently connected with Sara Whiteley, a senior interior designer at DBVW Architects in Providence, Rhode Island, to ask her to weigh in on some common questions I’ve been getting.

This week on Wide-Format Weekly, we continue to celebrate women in print; Don't miss out on the Wide-Format Impressions 150 rankings; We get a part two with Bluemedia's RJ Orr about Super Bowl Graphics; We get candid about reports of discrimination at tradeshows; And a business owner talks rebuilding after a natural disaster.

While some might choose to look the other way in the presence of, in this case, racism or sexism, the act of excluding a person as a potential customer is not only bad for society, it’s bad for business.

This week's episode highlights what it takes to handle graphics for the Super Bowl, a Quebec company on the move, training and installation for graphics installers, finding partners for apparel decoration, and celebrating women in the printing industry.

Tom Trutna, president of Big Ink, shares how his company has changed during its 25 year history, with a focus on "solving its customer's problems."