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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. (MPS), a supplier of print, packaging, and merchandising solutions for the cosmetics, healthcare, multimedia, and value-added consumer markets announced the opening of a sales office in London.

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. (MPS), a supplier of print, packaging, and merchandising solutions for the cosmetics, healthcare, multimedia, and value-added consumer markets announced the opening of a sales office in London.

RESTON, Va.—NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies will launch its 2008 Industry Summit, a three-and-a-half-day event that brings together the PRINT OUTLOOK® economic and marketing conference and the PRIMIR Spring Meeting, March 31-April 3, at the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel in New York, N.Y. “The NPES 2008 Industry Summit is designed to be a timely and convenient ‘one-stop’ experience that will provide the most relevant business, trend and forecast information, at an optimum time of year, at one easily accessible location,” says Ralph Nappi, NPES president. “This event will equip members to move forward this year with the most recent

NEW YORK, N.Y. and SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—In their first joint bi-coastal effort, the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) Master of Arts Program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology, and the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Calif. will host a day-long seminar on virtual proofing (VP) in New York City on Tuesday, April 17th. Starting at 8 a.m., the Virtual Proofing Seminar sessions will be held in the Public Assembly Room (Room 430) of NYU-SCPS’s Woolworth Building location at 15 Barclay Street in downtown Manhattan. The seminar sessions will feature comprehensive presentations on all aspects

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Less than half (45 percent) of U.S. industrial manufacturers are optimistic about the U.S. economy over the next 12 months, down from 63 percent last quarter and 76 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ recent Manufacturing Barometer. Forty-eight percent view lack of demand as a barrier to growth, equal with oil and energy prices; however, most expect oil prices to level off over the next year. “This shift in confidence among industrial manufacturers is the result of continued high energy prices, which affects not only the bottom line but also demand,” said Barry Misthal, a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’