FAST TRACK FIRMS -- Sailing Against the Wind

Great Lakes Companies

Cleveland

Ranking: 236

Most Recent Fiscal Year Sales: $23.5M

Previous Fiscal Year Sales: $21M

A sheetfed and web printer, Great Lakes produces high-end catalogs, brochures and annual reports. Its GLDirect is a mailing and fulfillment business. AKSESS is a software development and an Application Service Provider (ASP) of digital asset management. New for 2003 is its print-on-demand (POD) center—a nice growth area to offset what President James Schultz terms a flat commercial printing market.