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PNI Digital Media

PNI Digital Media, Inc. is a company that operates an enterprise-class e-commerce platform which allows retailers to provide print-on-demand personalized products and services to their customers. Retailers who license the PNI platform use PNI's software to offer photo prints, photo gift merchandise, small business marketing products, document printing services and other print-on-demand merchandise.[1][2]

Large companies such as Costco, Sam’s Club, and Staples use PNI Digital Media’s software platform to allow customers to create and order personalized products, including photo prints, photo books, canvas prints, photo calendars, greeting cards, invitations, business cards, signage, and documents.[2][3][4][5]

Retailers

The company launched in Vancouver, B.C., in 2001, taking on Walmart Canada as their first major photo site client in 2002. From 2003 to 2007, the company also provided its software platform for photo sites for Costco Canada, Blacks, Chapters, Loblaws and others.[1]

PNI later expanded into the U.S. marketplace by licensing its software platform to CVS Health (then CVS/pharmacy), Costco, and Sam’s Club, although these contracts were lost several years later.[1]

As of February 2017, PNI licensed its software platform to retailers such as Staples, Staples Canada, Tesco, FedEx Office, and Quill. As of June 6, 2022, PNI licensed its software platform only to Staples US and had faced severe downsizing, with most offices worldwide being closed. [1]

History

PNI Digital Media was formerly known as PhotoChannel Networks Inc., and the name was officially changed in June 2009.[6]

On July 11, 2014, the company was acquired by Staples, Inc. for $74 million.[4][7]

Commencing July 14, 2015, the online photo centres for Walmart Canada, CVS, Costco, and Rite Aid, all operated by PNI, were investigating credit card fraud.[8][9][10][11] After being down for several weeks, the photo sites began to be re-launched in September 2015, rebuilt with enhanced security measures.[12]

Company

PNI has been included in Deloitte's Fast 50 and Fast 500 list, which recognizes Canada's fastest-growing tech firms, in 2009, 2010 and 2011.[13][14][15][16] The company also has been included in the list of Canada's Top Employers in 2015, and BC's Top Employers in 2016.[17][18]

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References

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  5. Who's who – the top 25 Business In Vancouver, retrieved 2017-03-02^
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  7. Staples to buy retail-focused software firm PNI Digital Reuters^
  8. Many Big Photo Printing Websites Now Offline After Suspected Data Breach 21 July 2015^
  9. CVS Probes Card Breach at Online Photo Unit Krebs on Security, Brian Krebs, 17 July 2015, retrieved 2015-07-17^
  10. Iain Thomson. CVS shutters photo website in credit-card hack attack scare The Register, July 18, 2015^
  11. CVS, Costco and Walmart Canada shut down online photo services due to suspected hacking attack 18 July 2015^
  12. Costco's Online Photo Services Back Up After Breach, Customers' Cards May Have Been Compromised Consumerist, 2015-09-08, retrieved 2017-03-02^
  13. B.C. tech companies: four of the fastest Business In Vancouver, retrieved 2017-03-02^
  14. Technology Fast 50 winners^
  15. Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500 - Connect. Grow. Inspire.^
  16. Lead. Innovate. Excel. Deloitte’s 2010 Technology Fast 500^
  17. BC's Top 100 Employers. British Columbia's Top Employers (2016) www.canadastop100.com, retrieved 2017-03-02^
  18. Canada's Top 100 Employers. Canada's Top 100 Employers (2017) www.canadastop100.com, retrieved 2017-03-02^