Year in Review -- 2005 All About Bob

As the year drew to a close, EarthColor Inc. announced it had acquired fellow New York metro printer Applied Printing Technologies, a $45 million a year performer, in one of 2005's largest East Coast deals.

Quebecor World also followed through on its plan to divest non-core sheetfed and specialty printing operations in the United States and Canada with the announcement it had shed the targeted plants in two management buyouts. The breakaway companies became Grafikom and MATLET Group in deals worth a combined $114 million.