Diamond: Moves Warehouse to Mississippi; Steps Away From Valiant

* According to this short piece at the comics business news and analysis site ICv2.com, Diamond has decided to not to solicit Valiant Entertainment's hardcover Harbinger: The Beginning because of a trademark dispute between that company and a company called Valiant Intellectual Properties LLC. That book contained "digitally colored and re-mastered" versions of the stories in the 1992 Harbinger comic book series issues #0-7 and a new Harbinger story written by series creator Jim Shooter. The book will still be available directly from the publisher.

* Diamond will move its Memphis warehouse facility approximately 20 miles away to Olive Branch, MS and into a facility that has more than double its current warehouse space, says the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The paper points out that the company was granted financial incentives to move its Sparta, Illinois operations to Memphis in 2001. According to the article, the Memphis warehouse serves 1500 stores. As the number of regional warehouses has been consolidated into I think three larger warehouses by Diamond, the size and effectiveness of the physical plants has become more of an issue in terms of shops getting all of the material they're due on the dates they need them.
 
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