PPFA launches Consumer Awareness Committee
The Professional Picture Framers Association (PPFA) has launched a Consumer Awareness Committee to raise the profile of the custom picture framing industry, and to help PPFA members attract customers. Mary Fender, MCPF, Frame Nation, Richmond, Va., will chair the new committee. “I’m so excited about what we’ll be able to do, and know we’ll accomplish [...]
New PPFA Webinar: How to Sell What You Want to Sell
PPFA is offering a new webinar, “How to Sell What You Want to Sell.” There are a variety of different ways you can “drive” sales the direction you want them to go and Greg Perkins, Larson-Juhl, will share some of them in this webinar. This includes choosing the right product mix for your business model, displaying [...]
InfoTrends predicts merchandise is future of photofinishing market
“Generating revenue from photo merchandise is the only way most vendors in the consumer photo market will survive,” claims InfoTrends. The market research firm says traditional photo print volumes and revenues continue to decline, but the photo merchandise market — custom books, greeting cards, enlargements, posters, framed prints and calendars — will grow substantially, reaching $2.2 billion [...]
Timeless Frames and Timeless Decor launch Timeless Expressions.com
Timeless Frames and Timeless Decor, Watertown, N.Y., award-winning manufacturing operations, announce the launch of the e-commerce website Timelessexpressions.com. Investing over $500,000 in technology and state-of-the-art digital equipment, Timeless Expressions, a PPFA member, has created 8 new jobs in the operations, marketing and IT fields and occupies over 22,000 square feet of space in the Timeless Décor [...]
PMA, PPFA launch health benefits helpline with Meadowbrook Insurance
PMA and PPFA have teamed up with Meadowbrook Insurance Group — one of the 25 largest insurance brokers in the country– to offer members quotes on medical, dental, life, and long-term care insurance, and to offer assistance on benefits issues. Meadowbrook representatives will be calling members; or members may visit www.meadowbrook.com/agency/pma or call the PMA Benefits Helpline [...]
Decor Moulding and Southern Moulding merge
Decor Moulding & Supply, Hauppauge, N.Y., merged Aug. 2 with Southern Moulding & Supply, Kennesaw, Ga. Both firms will carry full product lines of mouldings, ready-mades, ovals and framing supplies. The merger will allow both firms to buy stronger and more effectively, offering their combined customer base more stable prices and quicker deliveries, the companies [...]
American Color Imaging opens custom frame company
American Color Imaging (ACI), Cedar Falls, Iowa, announced custom framing is now open in conjunction with its professional color lab. “We know professional photographers want to offer the complete package,” said ACI President Mark Lane. “So we knew that a professional, custom frame division was the perfect complement to the professional portrait.” ACI carries 70 [...]
Tru Vue Optium Conservation Grants Awarded by the FAIC
The Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC), Washington, D.C., announces two grants made under the Tru Vue Optium Conservation Grant program. Monetary awards and donations of Tru Vue Optium Museum Acrylic were made to The Phillips Collection and The Fairbanks House for projects that will help conserve their [...]
New PPFA Webinar: Clear Film Book Mounting
PPFA is offering a new webcast, “Clear Film Book Mounting,” featuring James Miller, MCPF, GCF, ARTFRAME, Inc. Clear film is useful for many mounting techniques, and book mounting is one of the best to use it. Instead of mounting books, magazines, and whole newspapers in a traditional sink mount that covers their edges, learn, in this [...]
Crescent Cardboard teams with Keep America Beautiful
Crescent Cardboard Co., Wheeling, Ill., a producer of matboard, has made a substantial donation to Keep America Beautiful and encourages consumers to select RagMat, available only at professional custom framers, as the best choice for framing works of art and photography. “Crescent’s RagMat matboard line shares Keep America Beautiful’s mission because it is made with [...]
