Allegra Network — A Match Made in Printing

“We have owners with sales and marketing backgrounds, and we’re also attracting a lot of IT and engineering people,” Buchanan notes. “And we’re finding people who have been downsized; those who want to control their own destiny and call their own shots.”

Allegra plays an active role throughout the transaction process. The company provides a valuation formula that closely mirrors those extolled in the book “Print Shop for Sale,” by John Stewart and Larry Hunt (two quick printing industry consultants). Allegra has found what it believes to be an “honest and ethical way of valuing a business,” Buchanan states, providing the basis of a fair deal for both parties.