Wal-Mart Offering Printing Services in Canada
Retail giant will offer business cards, letterheads, fliers, posters and other materials via PNI Digital Media.
By Graphic Arts Online Staff -- Graphic Arts Online, July 16, 2009
VANCOUVER, BC--PNI Digital Media (TSX VENTURE:PN)(OTCBB:PNDMF) ("PNI" or the "Company"), the leading innovator in digital photography and media solutions for retailers, announces that it has teamed up with Walmart Canada to offer a range of printing services and products to fit the needs of small businesses.
Part of the Walmart PhotoCentre located at www.walmartphotocentre.ca, Business Printing enables small business owners and consumers to easily order marketing and business materials using designs provided by PNI Digital Media. Products include business cards, notepads, letterheads, envelopes, fliers and posters.
Walmart Business Printing also offers services such as color, black & white copy services and coil-bound printing services.
Furthermore, the PNI-powered Business Printing service offers a broad range of promotional products such as customized calendars, fridge magnets, golf balls and mugs upon which companies can print their logos and other information on.
Each product is available in a range of standard sizes, and all orders are available for home or office delivery, or pick up at any of Walmart's 312 stores across Canada. With more than 100 new design sets, the Walmart PhotoCentre can offer print and branding solutions for a broad range of markets from Health Care to Bath and Beauty to Real Estate.
"With an average of 130,000(1) new small businesses opening across Canada yearly, we're excited at the growth potential of this marketplace," said Kyle Hall, Chief Executive Officer of PNI Digital Media. "By leveraging the extensibility of our PNI Digital Media Platform, Walmart can instantly offer compelling products in a whole new market segment. Over time we will see more services and products added to the PNI Digital Media Platform that are focused on solutions for small business."
(1) Industry Canada Report: Key Small Business Statistics, January 2009. www.ic.gc.ca/sbstatistics
"These new services are an integral part of our commitment to provide our customers the best assortment of on-demand printing services," said Crystal Taylor, National Manager for Walmart PhotoCentre. "Whether it is photo, photo gifts or business printing items, Walmart offers our customers great products at low prices. Walmart PhotoCentre is much more than just photo printing."
About Walmart Canada: Walmart Canada operates a growing chain of discount stores and Supercentres with 312 locations nationwide serving more than one million Canadians each day. With more than 80,000 associates, Walmart Canada is the nation's fourth largest employer. The company has committed to three long-term goals for environmental sustainability that guide its operations and partnerships: 1. To become a zero waste business; 2. To operate with 100 per cent renewable energy; 3. To provide customers with products that sustain resources and the environment.
About PNI Digital Media: Founded in 1995, PNI Digital Media operates the PNI Digital Media Platform, which provides transaction processing and order routing services for major retailers. The PNI Digital Media Platform connects consumer ordered digital content, whether from in-store kiosks, online sites or desktop software, with retailers that have on-demand manufacturing capabilities for the production of merchandise such as photos and business documents. PNI Digital Media successfully generates millions of transactions each year for retailers and their thousands of locations worldwide. Follow us on Twitter®: @PNI_Kyle and @PNI_Yasmin
For more information please visit www.pnidigitalmedia.com.
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We're with you Richard!
Dianna McCarthy - 2009-18-7 16:20:00 MDT -
Print at Wal-mart is just another example of Wal-Mart, aka CHINA Inc. whose global distribution network has become the world's larget retailer of grocery products, video entertainment and just about everything else you may ever need to buy. I guess the folks at Wal-mart have figured out the Vista Print and Staples print business model and will give them all some competition. I would guess that they will print in China to cut costs and kill the competition that will probalby come to the U.S. Wal-marts next. The average American cannot afford not to shop at Wal-mart, aka CHINA Inc.
Lisa Berceli - 2009-18-7 10:27:00 MDT -
The solution is to stop shopping at Walmart, maybe they will get the message. I sure the customer service will be top notch. HaHa.
Dave Hines - 2009-17-7 14:14:00 MDT -
amen Richard-Customer Service is the key!
Victor DeDonato - 2009-17-7 13:19:00 MDT -
this is whats killing small business today. big companies adding every imaginable service for cheap money. all it does is make life a lot more difficult for a small print shop like mine. its not bad enough i have to compete with monsters like staples and office max. im sick of it man, sick of the greed! its ok, we'll kick their ass with customer service.
richard creamer - 2009-17-7 11:19:00 MDT
