Mergers and Acquisitions — When Sweet Turns to Sour

At any rate, the writing is on the wall, enough so that President Bush rushed through a $170 billion economic stimulus package in February, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke continues to cut interest rates to help stave off a recession.

For the sake of discussion, let’s assume we’re heading into what will be widely hailed as a recession. As printers, concerns revolve around the obvious—materials prices, the cost to produce goods, the cost to deliver said goods and the ability to pass resulting increases through to customers. Also, from the it-goes-without-saying department, printer fortunes are pinned to their customers’ ability to remain relatively recession-proof.