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Reports on Prescient Partners founder and managing general partner Paula Riley's strategy to safeguard the company's patent for slipcovers from competitors in the United States. Patent infringement suit filed by Riley against slipcover manufacturer Sure Fit Inc.; Riley's research work which led to the development of the company's patented slipcovers.

This article reports that racked by a glut of U.S. paper recycling capacity and competition from China, Newark Group Inc. has cut costs and consolidated in recent years. The paper products company has shut five of its 18 paper mills and slashed payroll. The streamlining has not been sufficient to offset increases in energy and transportation expenses. The firm has been treading water in the past two years, according to Chief Financial Officer Joseph Byrne. It recorded a net loss of $1.35 million in the most recent quarter.

Predicts the eventual obsolescence of the check processing business with the growing public acceptance of electronic transactions in the United States. Expected decline of check processing business after 2005; Trend among companies of outsourcing the handling of checks and invoices; Comparison of lackbox functions and transaction services.

Spokane, Washington region-based Potlatch Corp. is using its new plant in Will County to wipe up a greater share of the market for paper towels, napkins and other consumer paper products, as of August 11, 2003. The company has long been a dominant producer of grocery store-brand paper products in the West, but it wants to expand east of Mississippi River, to markets in the Midwest, South and Northeast. The plant eventually will add an estimated 100 manufacturing jobs to the workforce of about 30 at the distribution center.

The article discusses the U.S. government's request for bids for the construction of U.S. President Donald Trump's planned border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and mentions construction materials, aesthetics, and cost considerations.

Announces Morse Diesel International Inc.'s takeover of the proposed paper recycling mill project in the South Bronx area of New York City. Expected number of people to be employed at the mill; Challenges facing Morse Diesel in developing the mill; Most likely customers; Plans for the facility; Approvals won by the project.

Reports on the reintroduction of the machine by Phoenix Systemation Co., that makes loose packaging fill from recycled paper. Invention made by former Patriot Packaging Corp. of Cleveland; Development of network of packaging materials distributors; Statement from Daniel T. Fogg; Strategy to design agreements with smaller regional distributors.

Reports on New York City administration's efforts to recruit manufacturers to recycle mixed water paper. Preliminary request for proposals from the Sanitation Department and the Economic Development Corp.; Expected number of companies to apply; Ways to contain energy costs and provide easy access to water.

Reports on the marketing strategies of Paper-Plas Converting Inc., paper products and packaging supplier based in Detroit, Michigan. Personal marketing for smaller customer base; Customer-appreciation lunch; Remarks of President and Chief Executive Officer Donald Snider; Identification of a market and the competition; Efforts to find ways to improve customer service.

The article presents information on Angelica Berrie, the new owner of chain store Kate's Paperie. It is stated that after philanthropist and toy maker Russell Berrie died of a heart attack in 2002, his widow took over the work he left behind. Berrie still controls her late husband's Russell Berrie Foundation whose total assets are worth $210 million. Berrie's life as the wife of Russel Berrie, her business acumen and the way she reinvented herself after his death are also discussed.

The article reports that Medicaid and other government-sponsored private plans are burdened by enrollment procedures that stymie many of the 800,000 New Yorkers eligible for coverage and result in long delays, even for successful applicants. According to a recent report by the United Hospital Fund, 40,000 pages of materials on behalf of 4,000 applicants are submitted to the city's Medicaid system every day. California, Georgia and Pennsylvania have had success moving Medicaid applications online, but New York has not pushed as hard on the technology.

Reports the hike in paper prices and its impact on the industries like newspaper publishing and fast food purveyors. Reasons for the hike; Price forecast for the years 1996 and 1997; Other obstacles faced by the paper industry; Various measures being considered by the newsprint consumers in light of the hike.

Reports on the effects of the paper shortage to Cleveland's printing industry. Carpenter Reserve Printing's stockpiling of coated paper; Reasons for the inability of paper mills to keep up with the demand; Placement of orders at Perlmuter Printing Co.

Reports on the growth of derivatives transactions in New York City. Factors contributing to the resurgence of the financial instruments; Risks involved in derivatives investments; Innovative structures offered by dealers to protect their clients' assets.

Reports that rapidly rising advertising rates at New York's daily newspapers are creating new tensions in the oft-strained relationships between the papers and their advertisers. Citing of increased newsprint costs; Advertisers' varied responses to the new rates; Impact of competition; Linage; Newspapers' performance.

Reports on the increase in paper prices expected in 1995. Supply; Coping efforts of companies; Publishers and newspapers.

Reports on packaging companies' move to resort to alternative packaging materials in search of ways to curtail increasing paper costs. Changes in business operations of Chicago, Illinois companies; Added load imposed by the US Postal Service's move of increasing rates on most classes of mail; Action by the Federal Reserve Board.

The first and only minority-certified manufacturer of paper products in the Midwest, Twin Pines Paper LLC has established a manufacturing plant in Canton Township, Michigan. Twin Pines produces tissues, toilet paper and paper towels at a 30,000-square-foot plant in Canton Township. The company, owned by Emmett Moten Jr. and Rajesh Mital, began operations in March 2002 and reported revenue of$ 300,000. Moten, who served in the Coleman Young administration, is chairman, while Mital is the president and CEO. Twin Pines produces 60,000 cases of paper products each month and hopes to increase its production to 210,000 cases by the end of 2003. The company was officially formed in March 2001 and received certification from the Michigan Minority Business Development Council in December 2001. It serves 10 distributors in Michigan and has targeted a 400-mile radius around Detroit in which to expand, encompassing Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Ontario.

Reports on the positive performance of newspaper stocks in 1999. Increase in advertising revenues; Companies' development of growth strategies; Consideration of spinning off online companies; Cyclical nature of newspaper stocks.

Millcraft Group, a Cleveland, Ohio-based paper distributor and processor, is courting small printing companies with four new paper stores, including one on the West Side of Cleveland. The 250-employee company began the year with one store, in Akron. It now has five, with two more on the drawing board. All are aimed at serving the small printer on a cash-and-carry basis.

Reports use of multicolored papers in the issuance of building permits in Chicago, Illinois. Description of the paper used for building permits; Significance of paper size and color; Efforts in automating and accelerating permitting system; Reduction on the length of time needed to review a building permit.

Focuses on the impact of electronic commerce decline on the Paperlink.com company in New York New York. Accounts on the development of online trading of paper companies; Business partnership between Paperlink.com and Progressive Development systems; Business strategies of the online company.

Focuses on the reduction of paper use to improve corporate productivity in the U.S. Organization of reference materials; Division of documents into action-oriented categories; Standard of a good filing system.

Announces the interest of Florida-based maker of recycled industrial and commercial paper products Edwards Paper Co. Inc. in expanding into Detroit, Michigan's empowerment zone. Square-footage of the planned plant site; Implications to Detroit's economy.

Reports on New York-based New Arbor Technologies Inc.'s plan to renovate the former Exemplar Manufacturing Co. plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan and turn it into a paper-pulp recycling operation. Slated opening of the paper-pulp plant in early to mid-2000; Projected revenue; Sale of recycled pulp to paper mills; Recycling of pulp waste from paper manufacturing; Estimated cost of the entire project.

Presents information on New York City-based public officers and organizations as of May 26, 2003. Approval of a change in New York State's wholesale electric markets by U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Selection of a public relations firm by football team New York Jets to promote a stadium in the city; Plans of legislator Bill de Blasio to become a co-chairman of New York campaign for presidential candidate John Edwards.

Profiles Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., a business leader in New York City. Changes made by Sulzberger in The New York Times Co.; Plan of Sulzberger of intensifying the effort of the company on television, radio and the Web; Maintenance of editorial strength of The Times Co.

Focuses on the decline of newspaper circulation in New York City. Increase of television networks; Escalation of circulation costs; Factors affecting the delivery.

Evaluates the earnings per share of the Reader's Digest Association Inc. in New York City. Sales of books, videos and music from the company; Decrease of the company profits for the fiscal year; Experience of the company for an allegations in misleading the consumers.

Comments on various developments in New York State and the United States as of March 6, 2000. Includes the political campaign strategies by politicians; Illness of Cardinal O'Connor; John Reed's resignation as co-chief executive of Citicorp; Brain surgeon's surgery error; Restoration to duty of four cops involved in the death of Diallo.

Reports on the increase in the purchases of recycled paper by companies. Expectation of continued trend; Improvements in quality; Description of post-consumer waste; Resistance of some companies in buying recycled paper due to higher cost and lower quality.

The author comments on a headline on the front page of a daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, that said Democrats are fed up with their elected officials. He agrees with the headline but notes that the people are fed up with their elected officials, regardless of their party. He criticizes U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for being immune from all this unhappiness.

Reports on the increase of paper recycling companies expanding in Chicago, Illinois. Weyerhaeuser Co.'s opening of a recycling plant in the city; Comment by Lance Meyer, plant general manager; WMX Technologies Inc.'s plans to build four material-recovery facilities; Other companies planning to open facilities.

Lou Mleczko remembers being ecstatic in 1980 when the Metropolitan Council of Newspaper Unions negotiated full health care coverage for employees of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News and can't believe he's watching it unravel. Newspapers, like many employers, are trying to reduce health care and benefit costs in negotiations for a new contract. And the first target is reducing benefits to retirees. The papers' preliminary proposal, presented in August 2003, included substantial front-end deductibles for coverage, ending health care benefits for employees who retire after 2009, ending vision and dental care for retirees and cutting off retiree coverage for new employees hired after the contract is signed, among other things.

Focuses on the strategic plan of Copley Press Inc. to sell its papers in four areas in Chicago, Illinois to Shaw Newspapers. Implications of the assessment of the options by Shaw for buyers; Benefits of the Copley purchase for Shaw; Refusal of Shaw officials to comment on the buyout negotiations.

Presents statistical information on the media in the Chicago, Illinois area. Impact of market penetration on the success of publishers of community newspapers; Comments from Ted Biedron, senior vice-president of sales and marketing at Pioneer Press Incorporated; Background information on Pioneer.

Reports on business developments in New York as of December 20, 1998. Includes change in the process of sorting and returning cancelled checks; Deregulation of workers' compensation system; Loss of Medicaid managed care plans.

Looks at the efforts of New York officials to remove illegal billboards, focusing on the removal of a billboard erected by Hanes Corporation. Details on the conflict between Hanes and Kmart.

Focuses on hidden costs of the United States Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Comments Southwest Airlines vice president Libby Sartain; Administrative burdens to employers; Track of paid time in centralized payroll systems.

Discusses the strategies employed by New York City's three remaining newspapers to win the readers of the defunct `New York Newsday.' Dailies; Expected circulation gains; Advertising; Creation of a Sunday edition of the `Post' as an option.

Reports that majority of recommendations approved during the White House Conference on Small Business were from New York delegation's list of priorities. Approval of a health-reform recommendation from Frank Levine, president of the Copy Exchange in lower Manhattan; Rejection of a call for congressional regulation of bank fees.

Reports on the enforcement of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Fine levied on Walt Disney Co.; Priority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) on compliance with paperwork rules; Verification of employment eligibility; Form I-9; Advice to review the I-9 forms; Changes to be in ink.

Discusses why businesses in Michigan cannot readily withdraw funds from deposited checks on float. Bankers' fear of check fraud; Amount of time before out-of-state checks get credited; Antiquity of the system used to process checks in the United States; Banks' preference for debit cards.

Standard Distributing Inc. and Packaging Dynamics Corp. are shutting down operations in Detroit, Michigan resulting in 391 lost jobs by the end of the year. Both companies sent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings to the Michigan Department of Career Development informing the state of the impending closings. Olla Beauty Supply Inc. acquired Standard Distributing in middle-September as well as affiliate Standard Distributing and Supply of Georgia Inc., which is based in Atlanta. Chicago-based Packaging Dynamics, which makes food packaging, is closing its subsidiary in Detroit.

From 1998 to 2003, Chicago, Illinois-based Hollinger International Inc., which owns the newspaper 'Chicago Sun Times' has rewarded Conrad Black, chief executive officer of the company, his closest associates and entities they control with more than $300 million. During the same period, the company's aggregate net income was only $26 million, with more than a half-billion dollars in losses recorded over 2001-02. The value of the company's stock fell by 42 percent, while the Standard & Poor's index of printing and publishing stocks rose 24 percent. Hollinger Inc., a public Canadian company controlled by Black's private investment firm, controls Hollinger International through a class of “supervoting” stock with 10 times the voting power of the Class A common shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That gives Black 70 percent of the voting power at Hollinger International, even though public shareholders hold about 70 percent of the company's total equity. The company's proxy statement shows that Black collected $7.1 million in salary and bonus in 2002, about $1 million more than that of the chief executives of the bigger, better-performing New York Times Co., Washington Post Co. and Tribune Co. combined. Company filings also show that his private holding company, Ravelston Corp. Ltd., has received more than $160 million in“management fees” from Hollinger International since 1998.

Reports on the circulation of the 'Beacon Journal' newspaper for the six-month period ended March 31, 2001. Circulation average during the said period; Ranking of the newspaper in Ohio; Focus on single-copy sales.

Reports on the implementation of hiring slowdown by newspaper companies in Ohio due to a softer advertising market and a decelerating economy. Length of time taken to fill vacant positions; Number of jobs to be cut by the Beacon Journal; Change in the coverage of the communities of The Plain Dealer.

Presents news briefs related to business enterprises in New York City, as of April 10, 2000. Talks between WPP Group PLC and Young & Rubicam Inc. about a possible acquisition of Young & Rubicam by the advertising agency; Prospects for a paper mill in South Bronx; Loan awarded to Bernie Mev Inc. by the Bronx Empowerment Zone to stay in South Bronx.

Reports on the expansion of coverage of Detroit, Michigan's dailies following a major strike. Improvement of long-term expansion plans; Increase in advertising revenues and circulation. INSET: Suburban papers expand coverage during strike..

Discusses about the downward spiral of circulation which is continuing at Northeast Ohio's daily newspapers, despite marketing efforts designed to attract readers. Information about Ohio's daily papers and their average decline statistics in circulation from September 1996 to September 1997 compared with September 1995 to September 1996; Reaction of the publishers on the declination of their newspapers' circulation.