America’s 5th Fastest Growing Business Printer: Plum Grove Printers
36% growth fuels climb up the annual survey of Top 100 Printers
Hoffman Estates, IL • July 22, 2014 – Quick Print Magazine’s annual survey of the printing industry has named Plum Grove #41 on its annual list of the top 100 American business printers in 2014. Plum Grove Printers, the environmentally-friendly marketing and business printer based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, jumped up 33 spots on the list from last year after remarkable growth.
Quick Print singles out Plum Grove for its exceptional growth rate and profitability relative to the commercial printing industry. Plum Grove posted 36% sales growth last year (compared to 1.53% in the industry as a whole); the firm is the fifth-fastest growing printer in America. Quick Print also refers to Plum Grove’s well-above-average $226,000 per employee in sales, using this number as measure of profitability.
Plum Grove founder Peter Lineal said “Our growth relative to the industry comes from integrating marketing printing with digital technology– the effectiveness of printing with the efficiency of digital possibility. Our promotional products division and our signage business help us to deliver marketing tactics to our clients. We continually invest in and reinvent our company, and we’re proud to be a Top 100 Printer.”
Quick Print, a leading printing industry trade publication, publishes the authoritative list of the top 100 business printers annually. Quick Print breaks down the numbers about Plum Grove: with 20 employees and $4.5 million in 2013 sales, Plum Grove nets $226,000 per employee. Plum Grove’s dramatic 36% growth accounts for its climb from #74 on the list in 2013 to #41 on the list in 2014.