CLASSIC GRAPHICS -- Against the Odds

A year later, the company began a $5 million equipment upgrade, which included two new six-color, 40˝ Heidelbergs and an expansion of the Charlotte facility to 59,000 square feet.

While the two appear to have the "Midas touch" when it comes to running a company, that wasn't always the case. In 1999, the company got an unexpected wake-up call. Almost overnight, Classic Graphics lost $2 million in sales from a single account. "Our situation changed with this customer. We were still getting work from them, but we weren't getting as much work as we had," Pitts explains.