Year in Review -- QW Grabs the Headlines

In late January, tragedy struck at Digital Pre-Press International in San Francisco where a pregnant employee, Margarita Mojica, was trapped and killed by a diecutter. She had been preparing the machine, which was off, for a new job.

Visant Corp., Armonk, NY, stoked the M&A fires when it paid $219 million to acquire Phoenix Color of Hagerstown, MD, in an all-cash deal. Not to be outdone, Houston-based Consolidated Graphics went back to the acquisition well and obtained PBM Graphics of Durham, NC, which had been ranked 51st in the PI 400 rankings for 2007 with $121.7 million in annual sales.