(Be sure to register for our Top 100 Webinar, tomorrow, June 23, at 1 pm ET, which will include a discussion of the survey results, as well as a conversation with Keith Miller, President and CEO of Strategic Factory, this year’s #1 Small Commercial Printshop.)

Each year, WhatTheyThink | Printing News invites small commercial print business owners to participate in our Top 100 Shops Survey. The key word is “small”; the upper limit for participation at $25 million in annual revenues. Our Top Shop this year came in at $21.32 million. (Last year’s winner had barely qualified at $24.99 million, but this year exceeded our limit.)

In 2020, the shops included in our Top 100 list accounted for just under half a billion dollars in revenue—$463,870,216, representing a 16% decline from 2019 which was not surprising given the pandemic year. If we look at revenues for our top shops, 28% saw a 25%+ decrease in revenues in 2020 from 2019, and only 8% said 2020 saw a 10%+ increase over 2019—but one-half of top shops are expecting a 10%+ increase in revenues in 2021. Anecdotally, some of this year’s winners said they are already on track to achieve that.