DeWese--Something to Say About M&A

Our industry has its own news, but it never makes the national wire. By the time you read this, more than 130 printing companies will have been acquired so far this year. That is about 30 more companies than all of 1997, and there are two months remaining in 1998. It means about $2.5 billion in sales will have changed hands the first 10 months of 1998. That's big news in the printing industry.