Financial Printing--Strength In Numbers

No. 5 ranked Cunningham Graphics, with 45 percent of its business being financial printing, more than doubled its segment revenues by increasing its sales from $24 million in the previous fiscal year to $50 million in the most recent reporting period.

Interestingly enough, while most of 1999's Top 10 Financial Printers reported either an increase in segment sales, or at least maintained their previous year's figures, one printer—No. 2 ranked Bowne & Co., of New York—showed a substantial decline in financial printing revenues in its most recent fiscal year. Despite its whopping $356 million in segment sales, the firm reported generating $372.6 million in financial printing revenues the previous fiscal year—a decrease of $16.6 million.