The "In" Crowd

"Why not leverage what we had and print for those divisions?" he asks. Kaplan reports that by insourcing he was able to save money for everyone.

"Anything you can do to leverage what you have and bring down the operating costs of what you do every day is worth it," he says.

Word spread, and the in-plant began printing for area colleges and companies—a practice continued after Melville disbanded and Meldisco became a division of Footstar in 1996.