2002 Printing Impressions 400 -- 101-151
(Editor's Note: Company rankings for the current and previous years are based on figures reported in 2002. Therefore, companies that revised their 2001 revenues may have changed their 2001 ranking as compared with the ranking that appeared in last year's Printing Impressions 400. Similarly, the percentage change in sales is calculated on the most recent information provided.)
101 ('01: 105)
Ames Safety Envelope, Somerville, MA
Total Sales (millions): $64.00
Previous Year's (millions): $65.00
Change (%): -2
Principal Officer: Tom Kell
Employees: 534
Primary Specialties: SPEC 88% (X-Ray jackets and folders); PKG 10%; FIN 2%
Web Offset Units: 8
Sheetfed Offset Units: 24
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
102 ('01: 109)
Gibraltar Packaging Group, Hastings, NE
Total Sales (millions): $63.80
Previous Year's (millions): $64.08
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Richard Hinrichs
Employees: 235
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 22
Other: 6
Ownership: Public
Plants: 2
103 ('01: 107)
Times Printing, Random Lake, WI
Total Sales (millions): $62.40
Previous Year's (millions): $64.18
Change (%): -3
Principal Officer: Ray Scholler
Employees: 455
Primary Specialties: PUB 50%; COM 50%
Web Offset Units: 37
Sheetfed Offset Units: 21
Other: 4
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
104 ('01: 111)
Cello-Foil Products, Battle Creek, MI
Total Sales (millions): $61.00
Previous Year's (millions): $61.00
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Kenneth M. Lesiow
Employees: 260
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 88
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
105 ('01: 157)
Ramallo Bros. Printing, San Juan, PR
Total Sales (millions): $60.83
Previous Year's (millions): $42.40
Change (%): +43
Principal Officer: Angel Ramallo Sr.
Employees: 545
Primary Specialties: ADV 37%; BF 18%; PKG 12%; CAT 9%
Web Offset Units: 64
Sheetfed Offset Units: 34
Other: 5
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
106 ('01: 113)
Universal Printing, St. Louis, MO
Total Sales (millions): $60.00
Previous Year's (millions): $60.00
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Robert A. Ebel
Employees: 350
Primary Specialties: COM 100%
Web Offset Units: 15
Sheetfed Offset Units: 42
Other: 4
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
107 ('01: 104)
GBF Graphics, Skokie, IL
Total Sales (millions): $58.50
Previous Year's (millions): $66.40
Change (%): -12
Principal Officer: Richard S. Kuntz
Employees: 325
Primary Specialties: DM 50%; BF 35%; PKG 15%
Web Offset Units: 54
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 6
Ownership: Private
Plants: 5
108 ('01: 126)
The Printing House, Quincy, FL
Total Sales (millions): $57.11
Previous Year's (millions): $54.38
Change (%): +5
Principal Officer: F.C. Lowe
Employees: 398
Primary Specialties: PUB 100%
Web Offset Units: 19
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
109 ('01: 120)
American Spirit Graphics, Minneapolis, MN
Total Sales (millions): $57.00
Previous Year's (millions): $59.00
Change (%): -3
Principal Officer: A. Oscar Carlson
Employees: 340
Primary Specialties: DM 40%; COM 40%; ADV 20%
Web Offset Units: 32
Sheetfed Offset Units: 14
Other: 3
Ownership: Private
Plants: 4
110 ('01: 110)
Worzalla Publishing, Stevens Point, WI
Total Sales (millions): $56.30
Previous Year's (millions): $62.18
Change (%): -9
Principal Officer: Charles W. Nason
Employees: 450
Primary Specialties: BKS 90%; DIR 10%
Web Offset Units: 8
Sheetfed Offset Units: 39
Other: 0
Ownership: Employee
Plants: 1
111 ('01: 108)
The John Roberts Co., Minneapolis, MN
Total Sales (millions): $56.00
Previous Year's (millions): $64.10
Change (%): -13
Principal Officer: Michael R. Keene
Employees: 315
Primary Specialties: COM 60%; ADV 20%; DM 10%; CAT 10%
Web Offset Units: 30
Sheetfed Offset Units: 28
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
112 ('01: 130)
Friesens Corp., Altona, Canada
Total Sales (millions): $55.00
Previous Year's (millions): $50.00
Change (%): +10
Principal Officer: David Friesen
Employees: 500
Primary Specialties: BKS 95%; SPEC 5%
Web Offset Units: 1
Sheetfed Offset Units: 42
Other: 0
Ownership: Employee
Plants: 3
113 ('01: 124)
Meyers Printing, Minneapolis, MN
Total Sales (millions): $54.00
Previous Year's (millions): $55.00
Change (%): -2
Principal Officer: David Dillon
Employees: 325
Primary Specialties: SPEC 54% (Point-of-purchase/displays); PKG 46%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 24
Other: 18
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
113 ('01: 181)
Solisco Printers, Scott, Canada
Total Sales (millions): $54.00
Previous Year's (millions): $36.00
Change (%): +50
Principal Officer: Jean Grégoire
Employees: 300
Primary Specialties: PUB 50%; CAT 25%; BKS 25%
Web Offset Units: 21
Sheetfed Offset Units: 5
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
115 ('01: 128)
Pictorial Offset, Carlstadt, NJ
Total Sales (millions): $53.50
Previous Year's (millions): $53.50
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Gary B. Samuels, Meryle A. Samuels, Lester F. Samuels, Donald R. Samuels
Employees: 275
Primary Specialties: COM 75%; ADV 25%
Web Offset Units: 25
Sheetfed Offset Units: 25
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
116 ('01: 138)
NOSCO Inc., Gurnee, IL
Total Sales (millions): $53.00
Previous Year's (millions): $47.00
Change (%): +13
Principal Officer: Russell Haraf
Employees: 450
Primary Specialties: PKG 95%; COM 5%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 27
Other: 97
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
Parent: CRL Industries, Bannockburn, IL
116 ('01: 119)
Vallis Form Service, Glendale Heights, IL
Total Sales (millions): $53.00
Previous Year's (millions): $59.10
Change (%): -10
Principal Officer: V. Neils Agather
Employees: 335
Primary Specialties: BF 63%; DM 21%; SPEC 14% (Laser-cut sheets); PKG 2%
Web Offset Units: 32
Sheetfed Offset Units: 2
Other: 2
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
118 ('01: 161)
Challenge Printing, Eden Prairie, MN
Total Sales (millions): $52.30
Previous Year's (millions): $41.30
Change (%): +27
Principal Officer: Robert J. Lothenbach
Employees: 374
Primary Specialties: COM 43%; PKG 30%; SPEC 15% (Point-of-purchase); PREP 7%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 64
Other: 56
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
119 ('01: 158)
Unimac Graphics, Carlstadt, NJ
Total Sales (millions): $52.00
Previous Year's (millions): $42.00
Change (%): +24
Principal Officer: George Amann
Employees: 225
Primary Specialties: COM 70%; DM 15%; FIN 10%; PUB 5%
Web Offset Units: 10
Sheetfed Offset Units: 43
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
120 ('01: 148)
W.M. Abene Co., Old Forge, PA
Total Sales (millions): $51.30
Previous Year's (millions): $44.50
Change (%): +15
Principal Officer: William M. Abene
Employees: 410
Primary Specialties: SPEC 50% (POP, heat-transfer); PKG 20%; PUB 10%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 138
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
121 ('01: 127)
Tanagraphics, New York, NY
Total Sales (millions): $51.00
Previous Year's (millions): $54.00
Change (%): -6
Principal Officer: David Jurist
Employees: 205
Primary Specialties: COM 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 33
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
122 ('01: 138)
Belmark Inc., DePere, WI
Total Sales (millions): $50.00
Previous Year's (millions): $47.00
Change (%): +6
Principal Officer: Bruce A. Bell
Employees: 280
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 24
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
122 ('01: —)
Burrups Packard, Philadelphia, PA
Total Sales (millions): $50.00
Previous Year's (millions): —
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Andrew Langdale
Employees: 250
Primary Specialties: FIN 50%; COM 25%; DIR 25%
Web Offset Units:
Sheetfed Offset Units: N/A
Ownership: Public
Plants: 1
Parent: St Ives plc, London
122 ('01: 153)
Paris Business Products, Burlington, NJ
Total Sales (millions): $50.00
Previous Year's (millions): $43.00
Change (%): +16
Principal Officer: Gerard M. Toscani
Employees: 101
Primary Specialties: SPEC 58% (Retail packaged ink-jet, laser papers and media); BF 40%; BCP 2%
Web Offset Units: 24
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
125 ('01: 133)
Rohrer Corp., Wadsworth, OH
Total Sales (millions): $49.58
Previous Year's (millions): $48.12
Change (%): +3
Principal Officer: John P. Rohrer
Employees: 385
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 72
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 4
126 ('01: 145)
Progress Printing, Lynchburg, VA
Total Sales (millions): $48.80
Previous Year's (millions): $45.50
Change (%): +7
Principal Officer: Thomas D. Thornton II
Employees: 310
Primary Specialties: CAT 30%; COM 29%; DM 10%; PKG 10%
Web Offset Units: 11
Sheetfed Offset Units: 61
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
127 ('01: 141)
Advance Business Graphics, Mira Loma, CA
Total Sales (millions): $48.50
Previous Year's (millions): $46.60
Change (%): +4
Principal Officer: Thomas C. Playford
Employees: 315
Primary Specialties: COM 34%; BF 34%; SPEC 21% (Digital imaging; fulfillment); DM 6%
Web Offset Units: 51
Sheetfed Offset Units: 30
Other: 4
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
127 ('01: 125)
The Lane Press, S. Burlington, VT
Total Sales (millions): $48.50
Previous Year's (millions): $54.40
Change (%): -11
Principal Officer: Philip M. Drumheller
Employees: 360
Primary Specialties: PUB 90%; COM 10%
Web Offset Units: 36
Sheetfed Offset Units: 6
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
129 ('01: 136)
Walle Corp., Harahan, LA
Total Sales (millions): $48.26
Previous Year's (millions): $47.81
Change (%): +1
Principal Officer: Michael D. Keeney
Employees: 350
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 32
Other: 110
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
130 ('01: 173)
Hammer Lithograph, W. Henrietta, NY
Total Sales (millions): $47.40
Previous Year's (millions): $38.00
Change (%): +25
Principal Officer: James E. Hammer
Employees: 251
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 41
Other: 17
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
131 ('01: 131)
Concord Litho Group, Concord, NH
Total Sales (millions): $46.65
Previous Year's (millions): $48.70
Change (%): -4
Principal Officer: Peter E. Cook
Employees: 220
Primary Specialties: SPEC 50% (Greeting cards, POP, tourism, fund-raising); DM 25%; COM 25%
Web Offset Units: 59
Sheetfed Offset Units: 35
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
132 ('01: 144)
Intelligencer Printing, Lancaster, PA
Total Sales (millions): $46.15
Previous Year's (millions): $46.00
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Michael R. Stief
Employees: 215
Primary Specialties: COM 60%; ADV 23%; DM 10%; CAT 5%
Web Offset Units: 22
Sheetfed Offset Units: 26
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
Parent: Steinman Enterprises
133 ('01: 158)
Bert-Co Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Total Sales (millions): $45.00
Previous Year's (millions): $42.00
Change (%): +7
Principal Officer: Charles F. Stay
Employees: 220
Primary Specialties: PKG 30%; SPEC 20% (POP); PUB 20%; DM 10%
Web Offset Units: 23
Sheetfed Offset Units: 28
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
133 ('01: 137)
ColorDynamics, Allen, TX
Total Sales (millions): $45.00
Previous Year's (millions): $47.30
Change (%): -5
Principal Officer: Charles G. Chalifoux
Employees: 200
Primary Specialties: DM 35%; COM 30%; CAT 20%; ADV 10%
Web Offset Units: 20
Sheetfed Offset Units: 20
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
Parent: RCL Enterprises, Allen, TX
135 ('01: 151)
The Inland Group, La Crosse, WI
Total Sales (millions): $44.50
Previous Year's (millions): $43.50
Change (%): +2
Principal Officer: Mark Glendenning
Employees: 220
Primary Specialties: PKG 75%; SPEC 15% (Distribution & fulfillment); COM 10%
Web Offset Units: 10
Sheetfed Offset Units: 16
Other: 14
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
136 ('01: 150)
Highland Computer Forms, Hillsboro, OH
Total Sales (millions): $44.40
Previous Year's (millions): $44.10
Change (%): +1
Principal Officer: Phil Wilson
Employees: 179
Primary Specialties: BF 100%
Web Offset Units: 76
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 5
137 ('01: 132)
FOCUS Direct, San Antonio, TX
Total Sales (millions): $44.30
Previous Year's (millions): $48.30
Change (%): -8
Principal Officer: Fred B. Lederman
Employees: 307
Primary Specialties: DM 100%
Web Offset Units: 16
Sheetfed Offset Units: 9
Other: 3
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
138 ('01: 172)
Dollco Printing, Ottawa, Canada
Total Sales (millions): $43.50
Previous Year's (millions): $38.10
Change (%): +14
Principal Officer: G.B. Hap Nicholds
Employees: 316
Primary Specialties: PUB 35%; BKS 20%; COM 15%; DM 10%
Web Offset Units: 20
Sheetfed Offset Units: 29
Other: 6
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
139 ('01: 168)
Federal Direct, Clifton, NJ
Total Sales (millions): $43.45
Previous Year's (millions): $39.53
Change (%): +10
Principal Officer: James J. Trainor
Employees: 350
Primary Specialties: DM 50%; BF 50%
Web Offset Units: 65
Sheetfed Offset Units: 3
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 4
140 ('01: 170)
Southwest Offset Printing, Gardena, CA
Total Sales (millions): $43.01
Previous Year's (millions): $38.57
Change (%): +12
Principal Officer: Greg McDonald
Employees: 320
Primary Specialties: PUB 40%; NEWS 40%; COM 20%
Web Offset Units: 102
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
141 ('01: 134)
Werthan Packaging, Nashville, TN
Total Sales (millions): $43.00
Previous Year's (millions): $48.00
Change (%): -10
Principal Officer: Don Belmont
Employees: 270
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units:
Sheetfed Offset Units: N/A
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
142 ('01: 164)
Liturgical Publications, New Berlin, WI
Total Sales (millions): $42.87
Previous Year's (millions): $40.00
Change (%): +7
Principal Officer: Craig Polack
Employees: 297
Primary Specialties: PUB 100%
Web Offset Units: 52
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 4
143 ('01: 162)
News Printing Co. (NPC), Claysburg, PA
Total Sales (millions): $41.04
Previous Year's (millions): $41.03
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Mark Barnhart
Employees: 379
Primary Specialties: BKS 45%; BF 23%; DIR 16%; SPEC 11% (Digital print-on-demand; data conversion and management)
Web Offset Units: 21
Sheetfed Offset Units: 5
Other: 4
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
144 ('01: 153)
Invesprint Corp., Toronto, Canada
Total Sales (millions): $41.00
Previous Year's (millions): $43.00
Change (%): -5
Principal Officer: Tony Wong
Employees: 320
Primary Specialties: PKG 100%
Web Offset Units: 40
Sheetfed Offset Units: 30
Other: 98
Ownership: Public
Plants: 5
144 ('01: 140)
Solar Communications, Naperville, IL
Total Sales (millions): $41.00
Previous Year's (millions): $46.90
Change (%): -13
Principal Officer: Frank C. Hudetz
Employees: 375
Primary Specialties: DM 85%; COM 5%; PKG 5%; ADV 5%
Web Offset Units: 36
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 18
Ownership: Private
Plants: 3
146 ('01: 149)
Standard Publishing, Cincinnati, OH
Total Sales (millions): $40.45
Previous Year's (millions): $44.39
Change (%): -9
Principal Officer: Daniel D. Miles
Employees: 305
Primary Specialties: CAT 45%; COM 30%; BKS 25%
Web Offset Units: 15
Sheetfed Offset Units: 6
Other: 0
Ownership: Public
Plants: 1
Parent: Standex Int'l, Salem, NH
147 ('01: 151)
The Hickory Printing Group, Hickory, NC
Total Sales (millions): $40.01
Previous Year's (millions): $43.50
Change (%): -8
Principal Officer: Thomas W. Reese
Employees: 261
Primary Specialties: COM 50%; ADV 25%; DM 10%; CAT 10%
Web Offset Units: 18
Sheetfed Offset Units: 16
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
148 ('01: 164)
The Garvey Group, Niles, IL
Total Sales (millions): $40.00
Previous Year's (millions): $40.00
Change (%): —
Principal Officer: Edward J. Garvey Jr.
Employees: 280
Primary Specialties: COM 70%; DM 25%; BF 5%
Web Offset Units: 40
Sheetfed Offset Units: 46
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 4
148 ('01: 143)
Penn Lithographics, Cerritos, CA
Total Sales (millions): $40.00
Previous Year's (millions): $46.30
Change (%): -14
Principal Officer: Carol Geddes
Employees: 216
Primary Specialties: COM 60%; DM 40%
Web Offset Units: 58
Sheetfed Offset Units: 20
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 1
Parent: JSJ Corp., Grand Haven, MI
148 ('01: 176)
Pratt Corp., Indianapolis, IN
Total Sales (millions): $40.00
Previous Year's (millions): $37.00
Change (%): +8
Principal Officer: Daniel D. Pratt
Employees: 200
Primary Specialties: SPEC 100% (Retail store signage, promotional, POP)
Web Offset Units: 0
Sheetfed Offset Units: 0
Other: 60
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
148 ('01: 163)
S. Rosenthal & Co., Cincinnati, OH
Total Sales (millions): $40.00
Previous Year's (millions): $41.00
Change (%): -2
Principal Officer: Donald J. Rahilly
Employees: 330
Primary Specialties: PUB 80%; CAT 20%
Web Offset Units: 41
Sheetfed Offset Units: 9
Other: 0
Ownership: Private
Plants: 2
Legend:
ADV--Advertising Inserts and Other Preprints
BCP--Bank Check Printing
BKS--Book Printing
BF--Business Forms
CAT--Catalogs
PREP--Prepress Services
DIR--Directories
DM--Direct Mail
FIN-Financial Printing
PKB--Flexible Packaging, Paperboard, Envelopes, Tags, Labels, Folding Cartons
COM--General Commercial Printing
NEWS--Newspapers
PUB--Publications and Periodicals
SPEC--Specialty Printing
N/A--Not Available
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The Printing Impressions 400 ranking was compiled and edited by Mark Visconti, project manager.
- Companies:
- Advance Business Graphics
- American Spirit Graphics
- Ames Safety Envelope
- Bert-Co Graphics
- Cello-Foil Products
- ColorDynamics
- Concord Litho Group
- Federal Direct
- Friesens Corp.
- Gibraltar Packaging Group
- Highland Computer Forms
- Intelligencer Printing
- Liturgical Publications
- NOSCO
- NPC Inc.
- Paris Business Products
- Pictorial Offset
- Pratt Corp.
- Progress Printing
- Rohrer Corp.
- Solar Communications
- Solisco Printers
- Southwest Offset Printing
- Specialty Printing
- St. Ives Inc. U.S.
- The Garvey Group
- The Hickory Printing Group
- The John Roberts Co.
- The Lane Press
- The Printing House
- Times Printing
- Unimac Graphics
- Universal Printing
- Werthan Packaging
- Worzalla Publishing
- People:
- WI Total Sales
