Jerry Grouzard

For a quarter of a century, Jerry Grouzard has been using his business expertise to make Allstate's printing operation one of the country's most respected. By Bob Neubauer The Allstate Print Communications Center is a true in-plant success story. Ranked second on the IPG Top 50, the $100 million operation has won numerous leadership awards and is a model for in-plants everywhere. For the past 25 years, one of the primary engines behind the operation's growth has been Jerry Grouzard, print communication manager. His understanding of the business end of printing has helped propel the in-plant to where it is today. Born and

Allstate Print Communications Center Wheeling, Ill. The Allstate Print Communications Center does everything an in-plant is designed to do—and then some. The main function of any in-plant is to save the parent company money on its printing needs. That's exactly what the in-plant at Allstate does well. According to Jerry Grouzard, print operations manager at Allstate, the in-plant expects to save the company millions of dollars this year. "We save them money on print applications," says Grouzard. "Allstate knows we can print items cost effectively." Over the past half century, the in-plant has evolved from a small duplicating shop with about

The superior capabilities, innovations and vision of the Allstate Print Communications Center make it a role model and a true Industry Leader. If someone took all of the management tips and equipment advice ever offered in the pages of In-Plant Graphics and put them to work in a single in-plant, the resulting "super in-plant" would be equipped to handle virtually any type of print job, from design through mailing. It would report stellar savings to its appreciative management, thrill its customers with service and be a true leader in the printing industry—a model for in-plants everywhere. But such an in-plant doesn't exist,