Wholesale Changes

Spartan Stores

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Annual Sales: $16.4 million

Operating Budget: $14.1 million

Full-time employees: 90

Part-time employees: 4

Jobs printed per year: 9,620

When it started out 35 years ago with just a one-color duplicator for printing company bulletins, the in-plant for Spartan Stores seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the largest in-house printing facilities in the nation. But as the century nears its end, that is exactly what has happened. For the second consecutive year, Spartan Stores has ranked tenth on the IPG Top 50 list.