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For Immediate Release: Vincent Direct's CEO Small Business Person of the Year

Contact:Ty Vincent
President/CEO
Ty_Vincent@VincentGraphics.com
(614) 889-2559

Kathy Bergstrom For Business First
Published: November 22, 2004

Ty Vincent's career came full circle when he bought his family's printing and direct mail business in 2000.

Vincent, 44, grew up working for his parents' company, now called Vincent Direct LLC. His mother started the company in the family home, and he worked for the company part time through high school and college. Vincent's future seemed set when he returned to the family business as a full-time salesperson after college graduation, but his plans changed when his parents, Myrna and Woody, divorced a year later.

Vincent, who was newly married, left the business and moved to Tampa, Fla., where he found a sales job with a family-owned printing company. After his mother relocated to Florida, he and his wife decided to start their own printing company with her. "We were young, and probably quite naive and very undercapitalized,"
Vincent said of that venture, Feather Fine Printing and Direct Mail Services. After a five-year struggle, business began taking off. Feather Fine grew to 120 employees and nearly $10 million in sales.

He sold the business to a division of Penten Media in 1994 but stayed on as a senior manager for nearly seven years. The division grew to 200 employees and built a new 72,000-square-foot building. "We had a source of capital unlike anything I was ever familiar with," Vincent said. Penten Media restructured and company officials decided to sell the Feather Fine division. Vincent helped find a buyer and decided to leave the company in 2000.

"What I really enjoyed most was when I owned my own business," he said. "I really felt now that I was even better equipped to go back into business, because I learned so much working for a larger company." He didn't want to start from scratch and started looking for a company to buy. That's when his father called to announce he planned to sell Vincent Graphics. They negotiated a deal, and Vincent moved back to Ohio
in 2000. Under his leadership, the company got technological facelift, acquiring a new pre-press system and two new presses. He also updated its logo and changed its name to Vincent Direct to better reflect the scope of services.

The company acquired Colorfast Press last year, and this year doubled its square footage moving from Dublin to 48,000-square-foot building in Columbus. Vincent, the company's chief executive officer, estimates he has invested $3 million to $4 million in the equipment, building and other expenses in the last four years. Vincent Direct's annual revenue is about $10 million. Since 2000, the company's employment has about doubled to reach 75 full-time and 10 part-time workers.

On Nov. 16, Vincent was named the 2004 Greater Columbus Small Business Person of the Year. The award is given by the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce. "I'm very honored and very grateful, and I'm also glad to be back here in Central Ohio and Columbus," Vincent said.

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