New Fall 2004 Update to C. Barnes & Co. Printing & Graphic Arts Directory Now Available; Guide Includes 2,500+ Large North American Printers that Account for $100+ Billion in Global Sales and 60% of Printing Industry Capital Investments

Latest C. Barnes & Co. Printing & Graphic Arts Directory is now available for download on www.drjoewebb.com. This latest edition has the most up-to-date data on the major players in the printing industry. The directory is available as databases for sales leads and database updating.

Bath, Maine (PRWEB) October 20, 2004 -- New 3rd Quarter 2004 editions of the C. Barnes & Co. Printing & Graphic Arts Directory are now available on www.drjoewebb.com. The Directory is the most current and detailed information about the industrys biggest and most influential companies. The C. Barnes & Co. Printing & Graphic Arts Directory lists more than 2,500 North American printing and packaging companies, representing $100+ billion in total sales and 60% of industry capital investment.

The report can be ordered at http://store.yahoo.com/drjoe/pgadsection.html

The Top 10 Printing Companies highlighted in the directory are:

Banta (NYSE: BN)

Bowne (NYSE: BNE)

Cadmus (NYSE: CDMS)

Consolidated Graphics (NYSE: CGX)

Cenveo (formerly Mail-Well) (NYSE: CVO)

Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX)

Quad Graphics (Private)

Quebecor World (NYSE: IQW)

R.R. Donnelley & Sons (NYSE: RRD)

Standard Register (NYSE: SR)

These 10 companies alone represent 30% of the global sales of North Americas big printers." The directory lists 1,300 plants and 4,000 key executives in these prominent companies.

Updates since the previous edition include 27 acquisitions, mergers and company name changes for the year such as acquisitions by Consolidated Graphics, Ennis Business Forms, Deluxe, Transcontinental, and others; the Jostens- Von Hoffmann merger; name changes such as Mail-Wells renaming as Cenveo.

Nearly 1,000 executive changes and additions have been made, along with updates to and 115 companies equipment listings. The printing industry is well on its way to match the high turnover of employees and acquisitions/mergers it experienced in 1999/2000, making it difficult for suppliers and analysts to keep their own databases current and up-to-date.

Directory details:

-- more than 2,500 printing and graphic arts companies with 100 or more employees with 4,300 locations

-- represents prime consumers of paper and other production materials

-- includes mergers, acquisitions, plant closures, and an economic overview

Company details include:

-- addresses

-- phone numbers

-- web site URLs

-- company sales

-- employee size

-- press equipment by type

-- key executives

-- primary market segments in which they participate.

Up to 4 key executives are featured in each location profile in the Directory. These key executives are typically:

-- CEO/Owner/Partner/President/Chairman

-- CFO/CIO/CTO/CMO

-- EVP/SVP/VP

-- General Managers/Plant Managers

-- Pressroom Supervisor/Prepress Supervisor/Bindery Supervisor

Market segments covered are:

-- book printing

-- business forms printing

-- catalogs & directories

-- direct mail printing

-- financial printing

-- general commercial

-- inserts & coupons

-- labels & wrappers

-- magazines & periodicals

-- newspaper printing

-- package printing

-- prepress services

-- specialty printing

-- trade binding

Among the top companies included are: Banta, Bowne, Cadmus, Consolidated Graphics, Cenveo (formerly Mail-Well), Courier, Deluxe, Ennis, Quad Graphics, Quebecor World, Valassis, Vertis, and many others.

NORTH AMERICAN AND REGIONAL DIRECTORIES ARE AVAILABLE

The Printing & Graphic Arts Directory database is a great tool for suppliers and salespeople to keep their companys database up-to-date. The database is available in national and regional versions, designed to match the specific data needs of your company.

Full Directory Available as PDF or Excel-formatted Data Base

The report is $695 as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat file, for $995

The database is available for $695 as a downloadable database file (readable in Microsoft Excel) and other programs.

A special price of $1190 is available for the report and a company data base. It is also available on CD-ROM for a nominal additional charge.

Regional Directories and Data Bases

There are 4 regional reports available for $295.00 in PDF format and database bundle edition for these areas:

Northern States Directory, with 371 companies, 710 executives, covering ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, PA, NJ, NY

Southern States Directory, with 367 companies, 1,100 executives, covering DE, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TX, AR, OK, LA, KY, TN

Midwestern States Directory, with 603 companies, 1,830 executives, covering OH, IN, IL, MO, KS, NE, IA, WI, MN, MI, ND, SD

Western States Directory, with 257 companies, 770 executives, covering CA, AK, HI, OR, WA, NM, AZ, CO, UT, NV, ID, MT, WY

The Directory and its database is an excellent tool for sales and marketing planning, prospect and sales lead development, distribution planning, sales territory planning, competitive intelligence, business analysis, merger & acquisition work, and many other purposes. It is especially helpful for national account selling, as individual properties are listed under their corporate parents.

TO ORDER, GO TO: http://store.yahoo.com/drjoe/pgadsection.html

About C. Barnes & Co.

C. Barnes & Co., located in Bath, Maine, is a research firm that focuses on the printing & graphic arts industry. Since 1998 the company has supplied clients with market research services and publications, most notably, the Printing & Graphic Arts Directory. C. Barnes & Co.s extensive database on printing industry is a reliable source for list rentals and research information on the major players in the printing and packaging industries.

Craig Barnes, president, has an extensive market research and economics background. He was previously an executive researcher for Printing Industries of America, the industrys largest trade association, and managed several of its well-known industry reports, including as PIA's Print Market Atlas, Technology Benchmarks, the Web Offset Associations Market Outlook Study, and many others.

About Dr. Joe Webb

DrJoeWebb.com is the information and e-commerce site that gets its name from Dr. Joe Webb, one of the printing industry's best-known consultants. He is a 26+ year veteran of the graphic arts industry, and has served the industry as a consultant, executive, and the founder of the TrendWatch surveys. His academic background is a combination of business, computer technologies, and graphic arts. His doctoral work was completed at the NYU Center for Graphic Arts Management and Technology. Dr. Webb has worked with industry suppliers of all types, including those marketing capital equipment such as presses, software developers, computer and peripheral manufacturers and developers, national and multinational organizations, associations, and others. A frequent speaker at industry events, Dr. Webb's weekly column Fridays with Dr. Joe" appears at www.WhatTheyThink.com where it has become a must-read feature for the entire printing industry. (Photos of Dr. Webb for editorial purposes can be downloaded at www.drjoewebb.com/press )

Dr. Webb is the author of Renewing the Print Industry: A Contrarians Constructive Perspective." A sample of that report can be downloaded from http://www.prweb.com/prfiles/2004/05/04/123740/renew_ind_toc&chap1.pdf

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