Year for Broken Records

Also busy in the acquisitions game was New York-based Applied Graphics Technologies (AGT). It had a busy year, beginning with the acquisition of Pontiac, IL-based prepress house Flying Color Graphics, but made bigger news when it acquired the Devon Group.

New York-based Big Flower Holdings spent the year putting more distance between itself and the commercial printing industry, but did acquire Chicago's Enteron Group, a $60 million premedia company, and ColorStream Technologies, also in Chicago.