FAST TRACK FIRMS -- Sailing Against the Wind

Solisco Printers

Scott, QC, Canada

2003 Ranking: 96

Most Recent Fiscal Year Sales: $65M

Previous Fiscal Year Sales: $54M

Founded in 1991, Solisco's main thrust is web printing, but the company also dabbles in the sheetfed arena. It produces magazines, books and flyers for a variety of markets.

Solisco has been very active on both the equipment and business acquisition fronts. In the past 18 months alone, the printer has installed a new Heidelberg Sunday web press and a Muller Martini Prima saddle stitcher. But its crowning jewel is the 2003 acquisition of The Delta Group, a newspaper and coldset printer based in Toronto.