Allen Press Expands Scholarly Publisher Services Team

As part of an ongoing commitment to enhance its scholarly publisher services, Allen Press, Inc. is growing the team that delivers those services.

This includes the promotion of Mark Kohlhase to Vice President, Scholarly Publishing Services and Barbara Buzzi to Senior Sales Executive, and the addition of Elizabeth Just as a Sales Executive. Along with Julie Rinke, Senior Vice President, Operations, and Maria Preston-Cargill, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, the team will work to enhance scholarly publisher services and grow revenue from society and association publishers.

“Barbara and Mark have been instrumental in improving and growing our scholarly publishing services,” says Maria Preston-Cargill, Allen Press Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. “Along with Elizabeth, the team will continue to expand our service offering and maintain Allen Press’s position as a customer-focused publishing service provider.”

Kohlhase has worked at Allen Press for six years and held roles in account management, editorial services and composition. In his new position as Vice President, Scholarly Publishing, he is tasked with providing scientific and professional society customers with the very best publishing systems, workflows, technologies and service.

Buzzi has over 25 years of publishing experience and has been a Sales Executive with Allen Press since 2009. She will continue to utilize her vast industry knowledge to build strong client relationships and help societies and associations in the scientific, technical and medical fields develop successful publishing and editorial programs. Buzzi has been a member of the Society of Scholarly Publishing since 1999 and the Council of Science Editors since 2005.

Just will join Allen Press in February and brings over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry with a strong history of business development. With past roles with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Swets Information Services and most recently LM Information Delivery, Just understands the intricacies of the publishing landscape and will work to promote and expand Allen Press’s scholarly publishing services in the Washington D.C. area.

“For over 50 years, Allen Press has prided itself on superior scholarly publishing services,” says Allen Press CEO Randy Radosevich. “We continue to invest in the resources and tools needed to provide the highest level of quality and service to our customers. I’m confident Mark, Barbara and Elizabeth will serve our customers well and maintain our reputation for publishing excellence.”
https://www2.allenpress.com/2018/01/30/allen-press-expands-scholarly-publisher-services-team/

Related Posts

Commercial Printing Industry Outlook: Preparing for the Upturn in 2021 (piworld..com)

The commercial printing industry will grow in 2021. Growth will begin during the second quarter, and accelerate through year end. No company, however, should count on the upturn or the shakeout of weak competitors to make everything right. Much will be different in the post-COVID world. And much of the gains ahead will be reserved for companies already thinking about those differences, and how to make them opportunities rather than threats. Those conclusions are based on the COVID-19 Print Business Indicators Survey, conducted every other month by PRINTING United Alliance and NAPCO Research. Nearly 200 commercial printers participate. The diverse group has annual sales ranging from less than $1 million to more than $700 million, and is located across the U.S. and Canada. We measure percent change in sales in two ways. Year-over-year is the first to capture the depth and breadth of the downturn. Among all companies surveyed, sales fell 16.9%, on average, during the first three quarters of 2020 compared with year earlier levels, declining for 81.9% — by at least 20% for more than half and at least 30% for nearly one-third — and increasing for just 17%. One participant speaks for many when he describes what’s happened this year as a “seismic downturn.”

Printing Impressions annual rankings reveal Worzalla as fifth largest book printer

Worzalla was ranked the largest employee-owned book printer in North America and the fifth-largest North American book printer in Printing Impressions’ latest industry rankings titled “2021 Printing Impressions 300.” Worzalla was also ranked the 63rd largest printer by annual sales on the general list that includes all printing companies in North America. This is the second consecutive year Worzalla has been ranked as a Top 5 Market Segment Leader in the book printing category. Worzalla also held its ranking as the 63rd largest printer from last year. “Our consistent growth and ranking in Printing Impressions’ annual report is a reflection of Worzalla’s ability to support its customers as book sales continue to increase across America,” said Jim Fetherston, President and CEO of Worzalla. “Much of our success is due to our dedicated associates, who do so much to deliver quality products for our customers despite the challenges our industry has faced over the last few years.” In 2021 Worzalla launched phase three of its modernization plan adding needed printing capacity to its facilities in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The expansion included the addition of a new casemaker and press. Additionally, Worzalla continued to grow its workforce for the day-to-day operations of creating the millions of books ordered by Worzalla’s customers each year.

Nahan Announces Investment in New Technology from Canon Solutions America

Nahan announced that it has expanded its digital printing platform with the addition of the ProStream 1800, manufactured by Canon Solutions America. “This state-of-the-art continuous feed inkjet press will enable Nahan to deliver highly targeted and personalized print at exceptional speeds with award-winning quality and flexibility, unlike anything we’ve seen,” said Nahan CEO Mike Ertel. With the ability to produce over 62 million letter impressions per month, the ProStream will increase Nahan’s overall capacity, while reducing production cycle times and enabling faster speed to market for its clients. Setting a new benchmark for inkjet quality, the ProStream1800 provides a color gamut beyond offset standards on most papers. At full speed, the ProStream leverages 1,200 dpi resolution with Canon multi-level ink drop size modulation for smooth shadings, striking details in dark tones, and sharp fonts. The ProStream allows for flexibility across a wide range of media, including standard offset coated, uncoated, and inkjet optimized papers from 40gsm to 300gsm. This will allow Nahan to efficiently produce a wider range of formats than ever before, from premium direct mail, to catalogs, self-mailers, and more. Another compelling feature of the ProStream is that it can produce fully variable 4-color catalog covers in-stream – a new and unique advance in capabilities for Nahan.
Back To Top
×Close search
Search