Business Description

Overview Ennis, Inc. (collectively with its subsidiaries, the “ Company ,” “ Registrant ,” “ Ennis ,” or “ we ,” “ us ,” or “ our ”) was organized under the laws of Texas in 1909. Ennis is primarily a “trade printer” that manufactures a broad range of printed products that are resold throughout the United States through a network of independent distributors. This distributor channel encompasses independent print distributors, commercial printers, direct mail, fulfillment companies, payroll and accounts payable software companies, and advertising agencies, among others. We also sell products to many of our competitors to satisfy their customers’ needs. Business Overview Our management believes we are the largest provider of business forms, pressure-seal forms, labels, tags, envelopes, and presentation folders to independent distributors in the United States. We are in the business of manufacturing, designing and selling business forms and other printed business products primarily to distributors located in the United States. We operate approximately 50 manufacturing plants throughout the United States in 20 strategically located states as one reportable segment; printing services and manufacture of business forms. Approximately 95% of the business products we manufacture are custom and semi-custom products, constructed in a wide variety of sizes, colors, number of parts and quantities on an individual job basis, depending upon the customers’ specifications. The products we sell include snap sets, continuous forms, laser cut sheets, tags, labels, envelopes, integrated products, jumbo rolls and pressure sensitive products in short, medium and long runs under the following labels: Ennis®, Royal Business Forms®, Block Graphics®, ColorWorx®, Enfusion®, Uncompromised Check Solutions®, VersaSeal®, Ad Concepts SM , FormSource Limited SM , Star Award Ribbon Company®, Witt Printing®, Genforms®, PrintGraphics®, Calibrated Forms®, PrintXcel®, Printegra®, Forms Manufacturers SM , Mutual Graphics®, TRI-C Business Forms SM , Major Business Systems SM , Independent Printing SM , Hayes Graphics®, Wright Business Graphics SM , Wright 360 SM , Integrated Print & Graphics SM , the Flesh Company SM , AmeriPrint SM ; Stylecraft SM , UMC Print SM ; Eagle Graphics SM , Diamond Graphics SM , Printing Technologies SM and CFC Print & Mail SM . We also sell the Adams McClure® brand (which provides Point of Purchase advertising); the Admore®, Folder Express®, and Independent Folders® brands (which provide presentation folders and document folders); Ennis Tag & Label SM (which provides custom printed, high performance labels and custom and stock tags); Allen-Bailey Tag & Label SM , Atlas Tag & Label®, Kay Toledo Tag®, and Special Service Partners® (SSP) (which provides custom and stock tags and labels); Trade Envelopes®, Block Graphics®, Wisco®, National Imprint Corporation®, Northeastern Envelope Company SM , and Envelope Superstore SM (which provide custom and imprinted envelopes); Northstar® and General Financial Supply® (which provide financial and security documents); Infoseal SM and PrintXcel® (which provide custom and stock pressure seal documents). School Photo Marketing and National School Forms are a one-stop shop for over 1,400 school portrait photographers and professional photo labs nationwide, providing them with a complete array of products and services that reach over 15 million families and 30,000 schools, primarily in the K-8 market. We sell predominantly through independent distributors, as well as to many of our competitors. Northstar Computer Forms, Inc., one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries, also sells direct to a small number of customers, generally large banking organizations (where a distributor is not acceptable or available to the end-user). Adams McClure, LP, a wholly-owned subsidiary, also sells direct to a small number of customers, where sales are generally through advertising agencies. The printing industry generally sells its products either predominantly to end users, a market dominated by a few large manufacturers, such as R.R. Donnelley and Taylor Corporation, or, like the Company, through a variety of independent distributors and distributor groups.…