CONSOLIDATORS - Slowing, but Growing

The year 2000 may have featured a little nibbling, perhaps some pie with whipped cream, but now it's time to digest...and integrate. While they're catching their breaths and enjoying an after-dinner coffee, Printing Impressions caught up with four of the leading industry consolidators for a Q&A: Carl Norton, chairman and CEO of Houston-based Nationwide Graphics; Joe Davis, chairman and CEO of fellow Houstonian, Consolidated Graphics; Bruce Thompson, senior vice president of Englewood, CO-based Mail-Well; and Robert Kashan, CEO of IGI/Earth Color, New York City. Kelmscott Communications, of San Francisco—another high-profile consolidator—respectfully declined to participate due to a heavy work schedule, but promised to be back in the news before long.