A Print Industry "Oligopoly" is on the Way: Are You In, or Are You Out?

After more than 40 years as an executive manager and financial strategist in printing-related businesses, Thomas J. Williams isn't one to soft-pedal facts or sugar-coat advice. As a founding partner in New Direction Partners, Williams specializes in straight talk to printing firms that have come—whether they realize it or not—to make-or-break points in their histories.

Williams emphasizes that industry conditions have brought nearly every printing company to an unavoidable fork in the road. In one direction lies staying in business with a realistic plan for survival and growth. In the other lies making an orderly exit from the business.