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Currents to Unveil New Look
Your weekly e-newsletter is about to debut a new appearance. It will still have the useful and informative content that you count on - plus a fresh new look to match our new brand. Check out a sample of the upcoming changes in today's issue, and watch for the complete refreshed Currents coming later this month.
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Holiday Closing
- GLGA offices will be closed Monday, September 7, to observe the Labor Day holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday, September 8.
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Golf Outing Photos
- Photos from this summer's three golf outings are now available for viewing and downloading from our online photo albums. Save your favorites today! See more.
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Get the Latest GLGA Magazine - Issue # 4
- Check out our round-up web page with links to PDFs of every issue of our print GLGA Magazine. This membership publication is mailed to the primary contacts of every GLGA member company six times a year. See more.
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Academy Course
of the Week
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Print Workflow and Processes:
Preparing Data Part I
The difference between public and private data is explored in addition to considerations and best practices for working with data. This lesson is 15:00 in length.
You will need a user name to the GLGA website to take this course. GLGA members, register for yours by clicking here.
| | | National News and Education | | |
WhatTheyThink's Annual Technology Outlook
- We are doing something a little differently this year. Instead of focusing on product or application categories, this year we are looking at technology areas, specifically Automation, Operations, Marketing, Sustainability, Consumables, Cool Tools and New Products... Read more from WhatTheyThink.
Flexible Packaging Updates: 5 Things to Know
- Check the innovative, sustainable pulse of this high-efficiency format through five curated posts that spotlight a 6-sided cuboid for cereal packaging, fashionably sustainable new films, an innovative ice pack, two commercial film and wrap pilots, and a compostable bioplastic film for beef... Read more from Packaging Digest.
Sales Tip of the Week: The Calm Before the Sales Storm
- This is a traditionally a quiet week, but that does not make it useless from a sales standpoint. Read Bill Farquharson suggestions for spending your time in his Short Attention Span Sales Tip... Read more from the Sales Vault.
| | Upcoming Webinars - FREE for GLGA Members | | |
Thursday, September 3
"The Cobbler's Shop: Why Printers Struggle to Market the Thing They Are Best At "
Register Here
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Wednesday,
September 9
"The Data-Driven CHRO: Turning People Analytics into Business Strategy"
Register Here
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Thursday, September 10
"The Encore Workforce: How Soft Retirement Can Preserve Print Industry Expertise"
Register Here
| | The Great Lakes Graphics Association is the trade association dedicated to representing the graphics manufacturing industry throughout Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin through education, promotion, and public affairs. It represents approximately 13 percent of the total graphics manufacturing market in the United States with its three-state region, accounting for combined annual shipments of nearly $19 billion. Founded in 1886, GLGA is celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2026 and continues to be the oldest print and graphics manufacturing trade association in North America. | | | | |
