Year in Review — Big Deals Make Comeback

Ralf Sammek stepped down as president and CEO of KBA North America and was replaced by Holger Garbrecht. Sammek returned to Germany upon being promoted to executive vice president of worldwide sheetfed sales.

Quad/Graphics of Sussex, WI, and its insurance company won a $63 million judgment in a lawsuit resulting from the 2002 collapse of the printer’s racking system that caused a fire and killed one person. A jury found three manufacturers of Quad’s automated shelving system responsible to varying degrees for the collapse at its Lomira, WI, plant.