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AROUND THE INDUSTRY EUROPE RIS, InkCenter, Ink Cartridge Refilling RIS expands InkCenters into Belgium and Luxembourg Retail Inkjet Solutions (RIS) is partnering with Cora to roll out its inkjet cartridge refill service at all Cora retail locations throughout Belgium and Luxembourg (Benelux). Cora customers can now drop off their empty inkjet cartridges at the InkCenter service area to be refilled while they shop – saving time, money and the environment. "With the already proven success of the ink refill service at Cora hypermarkets across France, RIS is excited to partner once again with Cora in more countries, especially as eco-friendly products and services are becoming more widely popular within the retail space," said David Lenny, RIS President and CEO. "Our innovative refill technology is designed to be convenient and efficient, while simultaneously reducing single-use plastic. The Cora brand offers a wealth of credibility and like-minded strategic thinking as we work together to bring high-quality ink and print clarity to the public in a much more affordable way. In the current Covid-19 landscape, facilitating lower cost inkjet printing for home offices is more important now than ever for many workers who are practicing social distancing through working from home," Lenny added. RIS have been working throughout continental Europe in recent years with several major retailers such as Auchan, Boulanger and Media Markt. The addition of Cora Benelux to the RIS InkCenter network is another significant step toward achieving expansion, and RIS said it is confident that ink cartridge refilling will serve Cora customers well. "We are delighted to join forces with Cora Benelux to launch this rollout of the InkCenter," said Vincent Hormovitis, RIS Vice President of Sales & Business Development. "The Cora management team is passionate about offering its customers unbeatable added value especially during this world crisis. With the demand for ink increasing as consumers work from home and students learn from home, Cora Benelux is now able to offer the best quality ink cartridge solution to their customers at up to 60% off branded cartridge prices, saving them money and helping the environment." "We are delighted to be able to offer the first Ink Bar in Benelux to our customers" said Stéphanie Pohl Weber, non-food director Cora Benelux. "Since the beginning of June, the nine Cora Benelux stores will offer this new innovative and exclusive service. We always strive to be as close as possible to the reality of our customers. In recent weeks, with the COVID-19 crisis, we have seen sales of ink cartridges explode, up more than 104% in value compared to the same period last year. We are therefore delighted to be able to offer our customers this quality and advantageous alternative from an economic and environmental point of view." The InkCenter system will be available at all nine Cora locations in Belgium and Luxembourg from June 2020. "Every day, our experts passionately select the best assortment at the best price to offer an unrivaled choice and a personalized consumption experience to our customers. We offer 511 different cartridges (HP, Canon, Epson, Brother and TX compatible cartridges) on the shelf or on order. By working our assortment in depth, we aim to make each purchase a unique act" added Henri Devreux, Marketing Director Cora Benelux. "In this context, the association with RIS and the launch of the Ink Bars were obvious to us." ■ NORTH AMERICA Flex Technology Group, FlexPrint Inc., Promotion, Business FTG promotes Corey Rivard The Flex Technology Group (FTG) announced today that Corey Rivard has been promoted to President of FlexPrint, Inc. In this role, Rivard will have executive oversight for the largest business unit of Flex Technology Group and be responsible for managing FlexPrint’s enterprise sales, marketing, and business operations. Rivard served as the Senior Vice President of Sales Operations for FlexPrint for more than fifteen years. In announcing this promotion, FTG’s CEO Frank Gaspari said: “Corey is an extraordinarily talented leader. He continues to take on the role as a student of this business and is always eager to reinvent himself as the industry continues to evolve. This promotion is fully earned and deserved. His career at FlexPrint has paved the way with substantial contributions to the company’s well-documented success. It’s been my privilege to work alongside him for so many years and I can’t wait to see what this new stage brings.” “Corey’s strategic thinking capabilities, strong leadership skills, and outstanding reputation within our space will continue to be a tremendous asset to FTG’s group of companies. I’ve worked with Corey for many years, starting when I was a consultant for FlexPrint and now at FTG, and I couldn’t be more pleased and supportive of his new role.” said Tom Callinan, President of Flex Technology Group. Rivard’s promotion is effective immediately, and he will continue to report to Frank Gaspari, CEO of Flex Technology Group. ■ 32 Issue 333 August 2020
Search for The Recycler on Facebook for more news and industry coverage GLOBAL Podcast, The Recycler, David Connett, Peter Mayhew We have started blogging around It’s been a long time coming and it is not as exciting as a Space X launch, but we can finally unveil The Recycler official podcast! Hi, I am Stefanie Unland, The Recycler’s Editor and Publisher. It is no secret, well it certainly isn’t now, that I am a bit of a self-taught Gintologist and if it’s not a real word, it should be. A visit to the Oxford Artisan Distillery last year, a book and a listen to a podcast and I produced my first bottle of gin. The thing is, I shared the podcast with family, friends and other Gintologists and the podcast is a popular place to learn about gin, all things gin, botanicals, distilling, you name it and the podcast has it. I thought “we can do that” and the gem of The Recycler podcast was born. While we are always working on the direction of future content at The Recycler, we did ask the question would you listen to a podcast? The answer was yes. Each podcast will take two or three topics and our panel will get into the detail and share some insights that the news missed. Our podcast Chairman is David Connett, former editor and publisher of The Recycler and now a Partner at Connett & Unland. Our resident panellist is Peter Mayhew, Senior Analyst and Director at Lightwords. The Recycler’s version of Statler and Waldorf. The third spot on the panel could be you. If you want to join the conversation and share your insights with our audience, just let me know at news@ therecycler.com and we will fix it up. “Finally the opportunity to bring a different and lighter analytical perspective to the current affairs of our industry!” commented Peter Mayhew, Senior Analyst at Lightwords Imaging. “We’ve been guest hosting The Recycler Live events for many years and developed a format to move from presentations into conversations with the audience. Realising there was so much more to so many subjects which never makes it into the news, we were delighted when The Recycler asked Lightwords to contribute to the podcast.” Back to SpaceX and the podcast back story. We thought it is a simple task to do a podcast bearing in mind that none of us are audio engineers and have not had the benefit of training at the BBC, but like making gin or launching SpaceX you just have to get into it. I found a ten-year-old microphone in the loft that worked fine in an analogue recording device, but was as silent as the lambs, on our digital Macs. So, we used the built-in microphone, some free software and a skype connection and we were in business, except that Skype can be problematic and the built in microphone seemed to change audio levels on its own accord. Not to mention that we have no idea about audio editing. Practice makes perfect they say, and we practiced, bought new podcast microphones, changed to Adobe Audition for the audio editing, we are still using Skype and we now have three podcasts under our belt and an awful lot of deleted failures. If you would like to participate in an upcoming podcast, let us know at news@therecycler.com Have a listen and feel free to leave any comments and suggestions about the podcast at news@therecycler.com. But be kind we are still experimenting with the technical side to perfect our podcast. ■ Issue 333 August 2020 33
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