Strategic Experts for Graphic Communications

At Connecting for Results we help companies with consulting, recruiting, mergers and acquisitions that create or use print to achieve their goals.

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Services

Our professional services include mergers and acquisitions, market-driven management strategies, and recruitment.

Strategic Consulting

At Connecting for Results, we help companies as if they were our own. We provide organizations, buyers, individuals, associations, and schools within the graphic communications industry with solutions, enabling all parties to achieve their goals and maximize results.
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Recruiting / Organizational Development

From technical experts to skilled leaders, and everything in between, Connecting for Results helps companies find the right people to grow their business. Whether it’s running machines or managing printing operations, we help industry talent find their next career opportunity.
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Mergers & Acquisitions

At Connecting for Results, our team of mergers and acquisitions experts can help identify the best fit for your business, maximizing results for all parties and creating win-win solutions.
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Industry Expertise

Our experts have a wealth of experience in high-profile leadership positions and have successfully owned, managed, bought, and sold businesses. Our services are geared toward print service providers, print buyers, and industry suppliers.

Commercial Printers

Industry Suppliers

Packaging Printers

Corporations

Marketing Services Companies

Government Agencies & Departments

Testimonials

We’re proud of the trust our clients have in us and our work.

Gord Griffiths certainly has had a significant impact on my career. We have worked together four times – with Quebecor, St. Joseph, Pareto and Cenveo.  Along the way I have learned a number of management lessons from Gord – keep it simple, focus on your people, and lead with a little humour.

Even when the going was tough you knew that Gord had your back and was invested in your success – I’ll always be grateful to call him a colleague, mentor, and a friend.

Rob Young

Executive Vice President, Operations, Pollard Banknote Limited

We are so pleased with CFR’s talent recruitment division. We had two very difficult positions to fill and after several non-successful weeks and hundreds of dollars spent on recruitment platforms, we asked CFR to help and within a month they filled both positions for us. They knew exactly what we were looking for, did not waste our time with unqualified candidates and the entire process was an absolute joy. We will definitely be using them again.
Audrey Jamieson

President, Marketing Kitchen Inc.

Great start-up! CFR is all about maintaining relationships! Glad that I am connected to this awesome start-up!
George Gianopoulos

Commercial Print Sales & Marketing Manager, Northwest Offset Printing

Gord Griffiths and the Connecting For Results (“CFR”) team are an exceptional group to work with. 

When it was time to put our 100+ year old company into the hands of a new steward, the CFR team launched this project with a strategic and thoughtful approach. Screening of prospects took key objectives into account including our desire Maracle continue at its current location maintaining employment for our dedicated crew.

While buy-sell transactions are inherently challenging, CFR’s seasoned team was always available to offer guidance in working through sticking points.  I have no hesitation in strongly recommending the print industry experts at CFR when the time comes to make big decisions.

George Sittlinger

President and Board Chair (2010-2024), Maracle Press Limited

I have known Gord Griffiths for over 60 years. We attended public school together and our parents were friends. I suspect Gord first became interested in Print as a young man observing our family business, Thompson Printing, founded over 65 years ago in Paris, Ontario.

The Print Industry is a small world and as it happens Gord’s partner Bob Dale, taught our son Jamie who graduated from the Print Program at Toronto Metropolitan University.

When Gord, as a young man, left our little town and went out into the world to find his way, he landed in Owen Sound for his first job at RBW. It came as no surprise that it was not many years before he was President of Canada’s largest Print Company, Quebecor. Gord’s career has been wide and varied and in spite of people not always believing he could do it, he has succeeded with skill, attitude, integrity and hard work while helping everyone and not ever forgetting his roots.

There is no question that Gordon Griffiths vast experience in the Print Industry will be an asset to anyone using the services of Connecting for Results.

Herb Thompson

Vice-President, Thompson Printing

We have partnered with CFR to help us get more meaningful industry insights that shape our business strategy. CFR is responsive and effective, contributing positively to our business plans.
Ryan Mair

Vice President, Print & Marketing, Staples

Having watched the evolution of Gord and Bob and their team at Connecting for Results over the last few years, I believe that given the rapidly changing environment within the print and packaging industry, we need an organization like this, now more than ever, that has the years of industry knowledge to navigate the headwinds that our industry is currently facing.

Scott Williams

CEO, Rocket

Thank you to Gord and the Connecting for Results team. Over the last several years, CFR’s engagement on several projects has been instrumental in helping define my company’s road map for the future. 

While CFR has been of significant support in many areas within my businesses, their role in acquisitions I have carried out has been key. CFR’s ability to understand my business and vision, supported by their reach within the industry marketplace, has been inspiring. They have identified key targets and presented supporting information, financial and otherwise, which have made the process not only seamless but easy. I am grateful for CFR and our partnership and look forward to continuing to work together.

Michael Hothi

President, Trico Packaging and Print Solutions, Canadian Printing Resources, Maracle Press

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