2000 Top 25 Diemakers

The only factor belying the notion that some diemakers are slowly losing their shirts is a steady increase in revenues--up more than $31 million over 1998, and more than $66 million since 1995. "It's not like the '80s and early '90s when 30 percent or higher profit margins were common, but it was still a very good year overall," says Crabtree.