A Failed Merger Becomes A Blessing for Stuyvesant

IRVINGTON, NJ—Back in business after a merger-gone-wrong, Michael Roesch, president of Stuyvesant Press (SPI), says he's just kicking into high gear, taking advantage of what he considers the opportunity of a lifetime.

A nasty split-up almost cost him the 20-year-old, $2 million business he grew from (almost) scratch, but the outcome—SPI's recent successful reopening, after an 18-month hiatus—was worth the tribulations of the tumultuous (business) divorce.