Year for Broken Records

The leader was Greenwich, CT-based World Color Press, which itself spent half of that $3 billion to build its operation. It acquired Lexington, KY-based Magna Graphic, Metairie, LA-based Century Graphics and Atlanta-based specialty printer Dittler Brothers.

Robert G. Burton, chairman, president and CEO of World Color, and his team also purchased Wilmington, MA-based Acme Printing.