Bits and Pieces: Bull Market For Proforma

We may have to redefine the leisurely pursuits of printing business owners. Instead of horses, sailing or international big-game hunting, one Proforma franchise owner from Corona, CA, has invested in a different type of passion: bucking bulls.

Linda Martinelli, who heads Proforma Graphic Printsource, is using her bovine affinity to compete for a possible berth in the Champions Tour Finale in Las Vegas that features a $500,000 purse. Well, Martinelli will compete in the form of her prized bull, named Proforma, which first must excel in the two-year-old champions class at the Champions Tour 1 in Orchard, TX (the event took place just as this issue was going to press).