ACCM Tidbits and Opinions

ACCM Attendance: The show had about 500-700 attendees from what I could tell.  Like many of the shows we have attended this year the number of attendance looked to be down 50% to 80% from prior years.  Penton took a bath on both NCOF and ACCM this year.  There is a question in my [...]

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Industry e-Newsletter from ACMA

Dear Members and Friends:
It has been a couple of months since our last industry general update. While the summer months are typically a slower time, this period has been anything but. The pace of change at the USPS continues to accelerate with numerous issues that affect cataloging moving one way then the other, [...]

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New Organization to Represent the Catalog Industry

ACMA. If you Google the acronym this week, you’ll find sites from Italy and Australia, organizations related to composites, case management, Chinese medical associations . . . but if you’re a cataloger, keep an eye open in the next couple of weeks for the brand-new American Catalog Mailers Association, which filed a statement of intent [...]

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