Consolidation--The Ties That Bind?

In a $70 billion industry that is fragmented—a fragmentation that makes it vulnerable in terms of the communications industry remaining competitive—Tevis feels print needs to be competitive from a speed, rather than just a cost, standpoint.

"We need to focus outside the confines of print and look at ways to compete with the Internet, with other major print companies and with any other form of digital information flow," Tevis says.