Progress Printing -- Boom, Not Gloom

A $35 million capital improvement initiative in the 1990s propelled sales growth and bolstered capacity. Progress Printing now features 210,000 square feet of space at its Lynchburg home base and a 28,000-square-foot, full-service, sheetfed facility in Richmond, VA.

Progress Printing services customers in 40 regions, with a focus on the South Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic states. It manufactures, among other products, booklets, brochures, catalogs, magazines, periodicals, calendars and annual reports. Soft packaging (backed by a fleet of six sheetfed presses) and carton printing are another specialty for Progress. Among its markets are educational, travel and tourism, banking and financial, pharmaceutical and real estate.