SULLIVAN GRAPHICS INC
8-K, 1996-10-21
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              Washington, DC 20549



                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

                       Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
                       The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

                        Date of Report: October 21, 1996
               Date of earliest event reported: October 21, 1996

                       Commission file number 33-31706-01



                          SULLIVAN COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

     Delaware                                             62-1395968
(State of incorporation)              (I.R.S. employer identification number)


                               225 High Ridge Road
                           Stamford, Connecticut 06905
                                 (203) 977-8101
  (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
                   registrant's principal executive offices)


                             SULLIVAN GRAPHICS, INC.
              (Exact name of regiment as specified in its charter)

     New York                                                    62-1003976
(State of incorporation)                 (I.R.S. employer identification number)

                               100 Winners Circle
                           Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
                                 (615) 377-0377
  (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
                   registrant's principal executive offices)




                                 Not applicable
              (Former name, former address and former fiscal year,
                         if changed since last report)




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Item 5.  Other Events

                  Sullivan  Communications and Sullivan Graphics today announced
that  their  EBITDA  for  the  three  months  ended   September   30,  1996  was
approximately   $13.1  million  (exclusive  of  approximately  $1.9  million  of
non-recurring  charges),  compared to $12.5 million for the same period in 1995.
The Print division's EBITDA was  approximately  $12.0 million ($11.2 million for
the 1995 period),  American Color's EBITDA was approximately  $2.0 million ($1.9
million  for  the  1995  period)  and  the  EBITDA  for  other   operations  was
approximately $(.9) million ($(.6) million for the 1995 period). EBITDA consists
of  earnings  before  net  interest  expense,  income tax  expense  or  benefit,
depreciation,  amortization,  other special charges related to asset  write-offs
and   write-downs,   other  income  and  expense,   discounted   operations  and
extraordinary items.

                  Sullivan   Communications,   through  its  Sullivan   Graphics
subsidiary,  is one of the  nation's  largest  suppliers of  commercial  heatset
offset and flexo  printing.  The company's ten production  facilities  print and
distribute  products such as weekly  retail  advertising  inserts,  Sunday comic
sections,  comic books and large format  publications  for many of the country's
leading retailers and major newspapers.

                  American Color,  the digital imaging and prepress  division of
Sullivan  Communications,  is one  of the  country's  largest  prepress  service
organizations. The Phoenix-based company has 16 strategically located facilities
across the country.  American color facilities and Sullivan  Graphics plants are
linked  by  a  state-of-the-  art  digital  communications  network  to  provide
instantaneous delivery of prepress materials from coast to coast.






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                                   SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



                                          SULLIVAN COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
                                          SULLIVAN GRAPHICS, INC.



Date:  October 21, 1996                   By: /s/Joseph M.Milano
                                              ------------------
                                          Joseph M. Milano
                                          Senior Vice President and
                                          Chief Financial Officer






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