- Ernest Green & Son (EGS), based in Mississauga, Ont., has become an official distribution partner of SwissQprint, marking the Swiss inkjet printer manufacturer’s first entry into the Canadian market. The EGS team has already sold a SwissQprint Oryx printer to a customer in Montreal and set up an Impala printer in its Mississauga showroom (pictured).
- Snackmaker Mondelez International, known for brands like Cadbury and Ritz, selected Montreal-based BroadSign’s digital signage content management software platform for its touch-based interactive vending machines.
- Prisco Digital Canada has been licensed to sell HP Canada’s Scitex large-format inkjet printing systems.
- Electronics for Imaging (EFI) formed a strategic alliance with Landa for the development of a ‘digital front end’ (DFE) for printing presses that produce point-of-purchase (POP) graphics, packaging materials and other applications.
- Exopack Advanced Coatings, which acquired digital printing substrate manufacturer InteliCoat Technologies in 2013, has now been renamed Coveris Advanced Coatings.
- In-store digital signage operator iSign Media Solutions in Richmond Hill, Ont., has partnered with POS Canada, which supplies point-of-sale (POS) hardware and software from offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary, to merge POS data with mobile messaging. iSign has also named Magnetic 3D as its exclusive reseller of ‘smart’ antennas and media players for the glasses-free three-dimensional (3-D) digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising market.
- Cober Evolving Solutions, a print service provider (PSP) in Kitchener, Ont., entered the wide-format graphics market by acquiring Kempenfelt Group and Kempenfelt Wideformat in Barrie, Ont.
- Print media supplier Ultraflex was appointed exclusive master distributor for G-Floor Graphic Products’ commercial-grade vinyl flooring in North America.
- Video hardware provider Hughes Network Systems has teamed up with software developer Scala to offer turnkey digital signage services to retailers and quick-service restaurants (QSRs).
