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Dealer Acquisitions, Mergers and Restructuring
Bell Industries acquired Garrett Graphics in the Pacific
Northwest; Pitman Company acquired Alletec, owned by John Alley in St. Louis;
Metzger Photo Supply in Ohio has sold its Fuji Photo business to HPS and
its remaining graphic arts business to BESCO; all of the branches of VGC
in the US have been sold to various other US dealerships. The west coast
offices were sold to LDR, the mid-Atlantic branch to Graphic Systems Inc,
Chicago branch to Hanley Graphics, Minnesota-area branches to PrimeSource
and upstate New York branches to GE Richards; Fesmire Graphics owned by
Charles Fesmire was acquired by Graphic Systems, Inc., owned by Jon Wright;
the Nelson Co. headquartered in San Diego and Keystone Graphics based in
Arizona have restructured to create a new identity, Nelson-Keystone. The
two organizations formerly operated as separate identities with Keystone
as a division of Nelson. Tim Young has been name VP of sales for the newly
merged and integrated organization.
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