American Reprographics Company (NYSE: ARC) is the largest reprographics company in the world, providing business-to-business document management services to the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. It also provides these services to companies in other industries that require sophisticated document management services.
The corporate headquarters is located in Walnut Creek, California.
The company, with more than 40 operating divisions, employs more than 2,500 employees, and serves more than 130,000 customers nationwide. ARC continues to grow through acquisition.
On February 3, 2005, ARC announced pricing of its initial public offering of 13,350,000 shares of common stock at $13.00 per share for gross proceeds of $173,550,000. $92,690,004 of the proceeds went to ARC, $68,711,496 went to selling shareholders.
ARC created the products PlanWell, BidCaster, MetaPrint, Sub-Hub, ishipdocs and AbacusPCR — applications aimed at solving problems of the reprographic and construction industries with sharing, transferring and managing printed and digital data.
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