Consolidation--Moguls of M&A

Nationwide Graphics
Carl Norton, chairman and CEO

THE city of Houston, it seems, is big enough for acquisition giants Consolidated Graphics and Nationwide Graphics. Nationwide has definitely found its chunk of the action, registering a lusty $70 million in consolidation investments thus far in 1999, overshadowing a 1998 figure of $40 million that deserves an asterisk, since the company only began making acquisitions midway through that year.