Deco must have a good gig. A couple consistent accounts who pump out a thousand bottles of spray cleaner a day. I've spent time working at a printing company in the last couple of years, and it was struggling, despite being an international company with top name clients: banks, real estate companies, auto manufacturers, cultural organizations. Most of the career printers there had been bouncing from place to place for years, telling war stories of the gravy days when they made more than doctors. Labels, which don't change that frequently, are probably printed in big lots and will ship a hundred thousand to a box, seem like they'd be squeezed on margin by offshore printers, yet Deco is regarded by almost everyone as a cash cow. Given Doug's back-slapping, hand-greasing nature, if I was an authority or a journalist (or a client) I'd be looking at their operations for kickbacks. Its rise would be an interesting story. Here's a small printer started in Etobicoke by a guy who came from nothing, and according to the Doug sold drugs story, fifteen years later Doug Sr. was hanging out with Eatons and is starting a political career that would span a couple generations.
