NRF: Consumers to return almost $850 billion in merchandise in 2025

MIDLAND’s booth #2345 is a “must” on your list of companies to see at PRINTING United Expo 2025. Corporate End Users, Brand Owners, Sign, Display & Point of Purchase printers will see MIDLAND’s Fusion Board, a new pulp-based recyclable FSC® certified rigid board that can replace Foamed PVC, Styrene and other plastic based non-recyclable substrates. MIDLAND’s new high bright Digital Edge Uncoated for HP Indigo B2+ Press Technology is the highest quality uncoated grade on the market providing stellar ink adhesion at a value-added price point.  The new Digital Edge 24pt SBS for HP Indigo is treated for the HP Indigo platform, providing uncompromising ink adhesion on the most demanding jobs.  Visitors to MIDLAND’s booth can find printed samples of our Recycled Environmental Polyester Synthetic Paper, the first 100% Recycled (PCR, post-consumer resin) synthetic paper engineered for HP Indigo and Dry Toner press technology.  MIDLAND, is widely known as the leading paper distributor to the High Speed Inkjet market.  Come see us to discuss our compelling new High Speed Inkjet paper line with unmatched breadth and depth of products, engineered for all production inkjet OEM press technologies - including but not limited to Canon, Ricoh, HP, Screen, Fuji, Kyocera, Xerox, Kodak and more.

Dilly dilly. I’m lovin’ it. Get a Mac. Why is it so easy to rattle off the brands that introduced us to these catchphrases? Because Bud Light, McDonald’s and Apple are among the best at telling stories, catching us off guard and even making us laugh. They understand the power of a campaign and how disruptive a “big idea” can be. And how powerful it can be—helping us consider their products for the first time, or again in a whole new way. But for a campaign to reach—and disrupt—the most people, it must be executed across all touchpoints (in digital and in print).

Nike is renaming its world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. in honor of its co-founder and first employee Phil Knight. Now known as the Philip H. Knight Campus (PHK), the company said Tuesday that the renamed 400-acre property will serve as a tribute to Knight’s ongoing legacy, as well as a permanent reminder of the founder’s mentality that Nike employees are encouraged to bring to work every day. Beyond a dedication, the new name “represents a living expression of Nike’s roots and a powerful reflection of Knight’s enduring spirit: restless, bold and forever believing in what’s possible,” the Swoosh said in a statement. The first stage of the campus, dedicated in October 1990, united Nike employees – who previously had been scattered across a couple dozen buildings throughout Portland, Oregon – into six buildings that took the names of elite athletes, including Joan Benoit Samuelson, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Steve Prefontaine and Mike Schmidt. Nike’s explosive growth in the 1990s, and the hiring spike that ensued, prompted an expansion that roughly doubled the size of the campus, with new buildings named after Nike athletes such as Ken Griffey Jr., Mia Hamm, Jerry Rice and Pete Sampras.