Westport, CT

WESTPORT, CT—August 27, 2008—Local company, Estimator Corp headquartered in Westport will be among the companies displaying graphic communications Estimating Software, prepress, commercial, package printing, converting, and mailing and fulfillment equipment and supplies at the upcoming GRAPH EXPO, October 26–29, 2008, at McCormick Place South in Chicago, IL. This event is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition and conference of its kind in the Americas this year with over 500 firms exhibiting at this top-ranked show. “We’re thrilled to be a part of this premier event. No place is more important for gathering information on the newest techniques and technologies in the commercial, package printing

WESTPORT, CT—Terry Tevis, president and CEO of quickly expanding industry consolidator Printing Arts America (PAA), has submitted his resignation to the company's board of directors, effective immediately. In his place, the board has named one of its own, Marion H. Antonini, to succeed Tevis. Tevis will remain on the company's board as vice chairman through the end of the year. PAA officials say Antonini brings a broad business background with extensive experience in operations, corporate acquisitions and strategic planning at such companies as Xerox, where he was group vice president worldwide operations, and Welbilt, where he was chairman and CEO from 1990 through 1998.

POMPANO BEACH, FL—Printing Arts America (PAA), the Westport, CT-based financial rollup, will acquire AIM Riverside Press, based here, its first acquisition since it hired former Donnelley executive Terry Tevis as its president and CEO. "AIM Riverside fulfilled two criteria very important to us," Tevis explains. "It was well-managed and profitable; and has the physical capacity to grow." AIM Riverside will become the 'hub' for the South Florida market," he adds, noting that discussions are under way with other nearby firms that would become "satellite" facilities. Tevis says the management team at Riverside, headed by Oscar and Ike Abolafia, has "accomplished on a regional basis