STATE OF THE INDUSTRY - Far from Dead

Commercial printing is a major purchaser of capital equipment, with $3 billion in capital equipment expenditures.

Commercial printing will purchase more than $18 billion in paper this year.

Commercial printing's profit leaders generate an average return on sales of 10.04 percent and an average return on equity of 24.75 percent. Our own analysis of the public printers with commercial printing operations indicates that they have generated sales growth since 1997 of 39.3 percent, are currently averaging EBITDA margins (return on sales) of 13.23 percent and EBITDA growth since 1997 of 30.5 percent.

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Companies:
Compass Capital Partners
Consolidated Graphics
Quad/Graphics
Quebecor World
Standard Register
Valassis

People:
Harris M. DeWese
Wallace

Places:
Radnor, PA
United States