Fast-Track Firms: Bucking the Trends

AS THE most challenging year since the Great Depression comes to a close, many executives and employees of printing companies across the nation are drawing a deep breath and exhaling. Well, maybe not everyone is exhaling, but a good many people are just happy to still have their jobs.

Here at the headquarters of Printing Impressions, perhaps the one question on everyone's mind was: Could we still pull off a Top 400 list? After all, we once listed 500 companies; but the consolidation wave of the late 1990s/early 2000s thinned out the herd considerably, prompting us to dial back on our ranking. The fear this time around was that privately held companies might be discouraged from participating due to poor financial performances.