A Course to the Top

That was the case with the purchase of Select School Agendas in Montreal. Vander Zanden and his team combined its operations with those of Premier Student Agendas in Bellingham, WA.

An acquired business might keep its own front-end, but only if the newly purchased company exists in a market in which School Specialty doesn’t already have an established front-end. “Either way, we get a lot of savings on the back-end,” Vander Zanden says.