Diamond Business Graphics

Rank: 1 Company: WorkflowOne, Dayton, Ohio Sales $(000): 1,000,000 Principal Officer(s): Greg Mosher, Chairman, CEO Locations: 150 Rank: 2 Company: Proforma, Cleveland Sales $(000): 293,000 Principal Officer(s): Greg Muzzillo, Founder, Co-CEO; Vera Muzzillo, Co-CEO Locations: 650 Rank: 3 Company: American Solutions for Business, Glenwood, Minn. Sales $(000): 239,776 Principal Officer(s): Larry Zavadil, President Locations: 410 Rank: 4 Company: GBS, North Canton, Ohio Sales $(000): 90,143 Principal Officer(s): Eugene Calabria, President, CEO Locations: 12 Rank: 5 Company: Merrill Corp., Monroe, Wash. Sales $(000): 83,950 Principal Officer(s): Mark Rossi, President Locations: 6 Rank: 6 Company: The Shamrock Companies, Westlake, Ohio Sales

Though the market is a tough nut to crack, it's well worth the trouble. Spurred on by the rapid growth of community banks, credit unions and savings and loans companies, many distributors have recently redoubled their efforts to pick up accounts in the lucrative financial market—and they've been well rewarded. The question is, how did they do it? "Distributors need a lot of patience to get an account with a financial institution," said Randall Hake, president and CEO, Diamond Business Graphics, Sheboygan, Wis. "It boils down to making sure the account executives soliciting these banks have the internal fortitude to keep after