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== Business Summary == |
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Champion Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in commercial printing, business forms manufacturing, and office products and furniture supply businesses primarily in the United States. It involves in printing business cards, letterheads, envelopes, and brochures; process color manufacturing of brochures, posters, advertising sheets, and catalogues; die cutting and foil stamping; providing bindery services comprising trimming, collating, folding, and stitching the final product; forms printing, including roll-to-roll computer forms, checks, invoices, purchase orders, and similar forms in single-part, multi-part, continuous, and snap-out formats; tag and label manufacturing; and color Web printing of brochures and catalogs, as well as offers output solutions consisting of print on demand, inserting, and mailing services. The company also provides a range of office products, such as file folders, paper products, pens and pencils, computer paper, and laser cartridges; furniture, including desks, chairs, file cabinets, and computer furniture; and interior design services, which comprise space planning, purchasing, and installation of office furniture, as well as the management of design projects. In addition, it publishes The Herald-Dispatch daily newspaper in Huntington. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Huntington, West Virginia. |
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'''Champion Industries''' is an American commercial [[printing]] company based in [[Huntington, West Virginia]]. The company was founded in 1960 and has grown throughout the southeastern [[United States]]. The largest stockholder, Chairman of the Board and CEO is [[Marshall Reynolds]], one the wealthiest people in [[West Virginia]] and a major [[booster (sports)|booster]] of [[Marshall University]] athletics. |
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<ref>[http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CHMP CHMP: Profile for Champion Industries, Inc. - Yahoo Finance]</ref> |
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The company owns commercial printing operations in [[North Carolina]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Ohio]], [[Tennessee]], [[West Virginia]], [[Indiana]] and [[Louisiana]] and office equipment concerns in West Virginia, [[Kentucky]], and Ohio. It also owns the [[Herald-Dispatch]], which is Huntington's daily newspaper, and prints ad inserts for numerous other newspapers. |
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On May 22, 2009 the company defaulted on a 70 million dollar loan used to purchase the Herald-Dispatch and eliminated about 15% of the newspaper's workforce.<ref>[http://wvgazette.com/News/200905220501 Huntington newspaper lays off 24 workers]</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:41, 13 May 2010
Business Summary
Champion Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in commercial printing, business forms manufacturing, and office products and furniture supply businesses primarily in the United States. It involves in printing business cards, letterheads, envelopes, and brochures; process color manufacturing of brochures, posters, advertising sheets, and catalogues; die cutting and foil stamping; providing bindery services comprising trimming, collating, folding, and stitching the final product; forms printing, including roll-to-roll computer forms, checks, invoices, purchase orders, and similar forms in single-part, multi-part, continuous, and snap-out formats; tag and label manufacturing; and color Web printing of brochures and catalogs, as well as offers output solutions consisting of print on demand, inserting, and mailing services. The company also provides a range of office products, such as file folders, paper products, pens and pencils, computer paper, and laser cartridges; furniture, including desks, chairs, file cabinets, and computer furniture; and interior design services, which comprise space planning, purchasing, and installation of office furniture, as well as the management of design projects. In addition, it publishes The Herald-Dispatch daily newspaper in Huntington. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Huntington, West Virginia. [1]
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