Sandy Alexander--Appetite for Construction

It is safe to say 1999 was an eventful and profitable year for Sandy Alexander, with an estimated $120 million in annual sales. How high will that revenue figure rise in 2000? As Yogi Berra might say, the limitations are limitless.

In the Beginning
Sandy Alexander has come a long way. Its modern roots can be traced to 1975, when Herb Alexander merged his company with Carnival Press, a joint venture of Stillo and Hal Fogel. The pair brought with them their Western Gear P26 half-web press, which had been somewhat revolutionary when viewed in the context of the times. Four-color, 38˝ sheetfed presses were popping up in pressrooms around the country, while web offset presses were largely untested and viewed as inferior to their sheetfed counterparts, which replaced letterpress as the print technology of choice.