Quad/Graphics Secures Contracts Worth $1 Billion

PEWAUKEE, WIS—Privately held Quad/Graphics, which billed $1.8 billion in its last fiscal year producing magazines, catalogs, and commercial products, ended calendar 2002 having secured a total of $1 billion in new and renewed long-term contracts.

Among the publishers and catalogers with whom Quad/Graphics signed multi-year contracts were Coldwater Creek, Meredith Corporation, Orvis, Pottery Barn Kids, Rodale Inc., Smithsonian, Time Inc., and U.S. News & World Report.

Says Thomas A. Quadracci, Quad/Graphics president and chief executive, "Certainly 2002 was a year of changes and challenges, but it was also a year of opportunities, and we seized every opportunity to extend relationships with existing customers while extending our services to new ones."

Quadracci credited the stellar year to the company's progressive print production and customer service capabilities. By fully integrating those capabilities across people, processes, and the company's network of production facilities, he says, Quad/Graphics has expanded production options while contracting turnaround time.

"Our singular approach to printing enables us to produce the highest quality products with more of the features our sophisticated clients want, in the least amount of time," explains Quadracci. "In short, we have a manufacturing platform engineered for nimbleness, which has proved attractive to an increasing number of publishers and catalogers."

One notable event for Quad/Graphics, he says, was beginning production in November on the January 2003 issue of National Geographic, produced on new equipment at its Martinsburg, W.Va. plant.