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BUSINESS
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2012
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BUSINESS

1. BUSINESS

 

Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (collectively with its consolidated subsidiaries, referred to herein as the “Company”) is a provider of commercial printing and print-related services with 70 printing businesses across 27 states, Toronto, Prague, and Gero, Japan.

 

The Company’s printing businesses maintain their own sales, customer service, estimating and planning, prepress, production and accounting departments. The Company’s corporate headquarters staff provides support to its printing businesses in such areas as human resources, purchasing, internal financial controls design and management information systems. The Company also maintains centralized treasury, risk management, legal, tax, internal audit and consolidated financial reporting activities.

 

The Company’s sales are derived from providing commercial printing and print-related services. These services consist of (i) traditional print services, including electronic prepress, digital and offset printing, finishing, storage and delivery of high-quality printed documents which are custom manufactured to its customers’ design specifications; (ii) fulfillment and mailing services for such printed materials; (iii) technology solutions that enable its customers to more efficiently procure and manage printed materials and/or design, procure, distribute, track and analyze results of printing-based marketing programs and activities; and (iv) crossmedia capabilities allowing its customers to supplement the message of their printed materials through other media, such as the internet, email, or text messaging.

 

The scope and extent of services provided to the Company’s customers typically varies for each individual order it receives, depending on customer-specific factors including the intended uses for the printed materials. Furthermore, each of the Company’s locations generally is capable of providing a complete range of services to its customers. Accordingly, the Company does not operate its business in a manner that differentiates among its respective capabilities and services for financial or management reporting purposes, rather each of its printing businesses is defined as a distinct reporting unit.