Major Innovations Set to Further Increase Consumer Engagement and Venue Sales – essential in the post-pandemic hospitality come-back

As 3M continues to fight the global pandemic from every angle and helps ensure a safe supply of needed personal protective equipment, 3M has expanded its region-specific resources to report and stop fraud around the world.

Hahnemühle is reacting to the current Covid-19 pandemic and is expanding its production to include urgently needed paper mouth and nose protection. HaMuNa® Care, the disposable mouth and nose cover can be used everywhere: in public transport, supermarkets, museums, churches, waiting rooms or public authorities. It prevents people from coughing or sneezing outdoors and thus corresponds to hygienic behaviour in case of an infectious disease. The paper mask HaMuNa® Care is optimised for short-term and single use and for spectacle wearers.

Canon wants to go far up the ladder for the good cause: On 26 September, the company will print the world's longest digital photo at the Oberstdorf ski jump. With this world record attempt, Canon is supporting "Schaut hin! e.V.", an association for child and victim support. The campaign is taking place as part of the 8th Oberstdorf Photo Summit, where numerous offers and exhibitions on all aspects of photography await interested parties and fans of photography and video formats from 23 to 27 September. Interested parties can follow the action shortly and join the charity campaign at www.worldrecord.canon.de.

The printing, signage and packaging industry has postponed most of its shows in 2020, others got cancelled, resulting in a multitude of show announcements, dates in the first half of 2021. By Sabine Slaughter

Over the last days news emerged that several tradeshows, slated to happen in autumn of 2020, have been postponed to 2021. This now makes the already quite squeezed calendars of 2021 a kind of mess with overlapping events, tradeshows and meetings. By Sabine Slaughter

By Andy Marken

So, what do you want first? The good news or the bad news?

The good news is the industry has changed – dramatically – almost over night, opening up new opportunities for creative folks, studios, content distributors/aggregators and consumers.

The importance of communications in uncertain times
By Michael F. Reidy

There is a theatre play “Waiting for Godot” and that is how the current situation feels – only with the difference that we wait for the old normal. While we wait for shops, restaurants, bars, factories, gyms, swimming pools and so many others to reopen we dream of the things that we wish to do again: go on holiday, have our favourite food at table in our restaurant, go to the pools, have that missed birthday party with lots of our friends present, go to work, have these little chitchats with our colleagues, having fun at the beach, the playing fields and events to name just a few. By Sabine Slaughter

By S. George Alfonso, Of Counsel, Braumiller Law group

The month of March has brought a deluge of cancellations of international conferences, travel and severely affected markets around the world, all due to the spread of “COVID-19” – the newest strain of the “Coronavirus” which was first discovered last December in Wuhan, China.

By Andy Marken
"Well, there's nothing essentially wrong with the car. It's just that it wants to go one way and I'd like to go the other." – Jim Douglas, "The Love Bug," Disney, 1968
While most of the folks who attend FMS (Flash Memory Summit) like to talk (brag) about their storage advances, we're more interested in how the stuff is being used.

"Don't confuse the songs with your own life. I mean, they might have relevance to your own life, you know, but a lot of things do. I'm just a guy, man, who writes songs." – John Lennon, "Imagine: John Lennon," Warner Bros., 1988

In our always-connected world, one of the most difficult things firms face is brand and product visibility ... with the right person at the right time.