2009 Printing Industry Hall of Fame: A Forward Thinker

Hayes entertained the idea of selling his company during this period, which was ripe with consolidator rollup firms. Friends of his had sold their plants, but something about selling Omaha Print didn't feel right to Hayes. Instead, he used the proceeds from the sale of the office products business to buy out the remaining shareholders (many trusts that dated back to the 1920s) and went full bore into pure printing.