This situation can come as no surprise to anyone familiar with current and previous Management. The list of incompetent Executives is long. PKP only needs to look in the mirror. Wes Lucas was not the best choice either but was implimenting PKP's plan. A very sad situation for our friends at QW. I hope they come out of this stronger and with a new Management team who understand printing and how important the people on the floor are to a company. Treat the employees with respect and compassion and they will make you rich.

See what happens when price is the only advantage? Canadian Dollar at par make the playing field a lot leveller. Now let's get the Carmakers back.

Quebecor indulged in check book expansion when it bought world color. For the obvious reason of wanting to boast it was the worlds largest printer. It was strangely reminiscent of Quebecor earlier and faild check book expansion a decade previous buying up droves of text printers for the computer manual market, which disappeared. The timing of the world color buyout seemed an odd coincidence. Odd that in Canada there was the last flare up of the Quebec seperatist party and it seemed, with no validation whatsoever, that Quebecor was hedging its bets by buying up U.S. assets, just in case. We will never know.

The writing was on the wall before Wes Useless came aboard..he was just the final nail.The company was and is being run by the good old boys club....salesmen,and I use this word loosely,were and still are order takers,only looking out for each other..looking out for themselves only,thinking they were the only ones entitled to make money..while giving the store away.Some of these clowns have ended up at RRD....hopefully they will see through these guys.

--anytime a company says, 'don't lose a job because of price' you know eventually they will have problems, and the morons who said that also practiced it---

Quebecor had and still has great people at the plant level. These were the glory years of transforming the production of print and the communication of the process between all those involved, and the people at the plant level did a superbe job. Had World Color (instead of Quebecor) been in control as top dog in the executive suite, I think the endgame would have a different result.

I built my company with the help of many Quebecor divisions. I have had help from both management and bindery operators in the designs of our spine prep saws and roughers. These are folks that care about doing a good job...and that is the core of any company, big or small. I owe a lot to Quebecor and its family of hard workers. Sincerely, Joe Wilson Atlantic Tool Company Weymouth, MA