FAST-TRACK FIRMS - Filling the Piggy Bank

"It is always a challenge to make sure we have the right people in place to make the important, day-to-day decisions," Mahoney explains. "As we have grown, we have added employees, but it is difficult to recruit employees to the printing industry in this tight labor market."

One sure-fire way to boost your sales numbers is to buy up the competition. This is what financial printing stalwart Burrups Packard did earlier this year. Burrups Packard is the U.S.-based financial printing unit of London-based St. Ives plc and Burrups Ltd., Europe's largest printing group. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Packard acquired Global Financial Press of New York, its long-time competitor.