The paperless office isn’t here yet, but Jim Flaherty, owner of an Allegra Print and Imaging franchise in downtown St. Paul, isn’t taking any chances.
Flaherty has moved aggressively to turn around the struggling location he and his wife, Kari, bought in March 2007 in the Alliance Bank Center. Signing dozens of new accounts and developing promising new niches such as printing instruction manuals for medical equipment, has paid off. This year’s revenue likely will reach $1.2 million, Flaherty said, five times more than when he took over.
His location is one of more than 600 in the Allegra Network, which supports the Allegra Print & Imaging, American Speedy Printing, Insty-Prints and Signs Now brands. Systemwide sales were $371 million in 2007. Continue reading this post.
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