20-40 Visionaries — Young Turks Set the Pace

If the last name sounds familiar, it should. The Quadracci family is U.S. printing royalty, the largest family owned commercial printing operation in this country—maybe the world. Even more renown than its wildly successful operations is the company’s base core values of honesty, integrity and trust, set forth by its founder, the late Harry V. Quadracci, and passed down by Joel’s grandfather, Harry R. Quadracci, himself a legendary print pioneer with the W.A. Krueger Co. Harry V. built a printing empire while establishing a common-man rapport with his employees, who he viewed as family. Larger than life, the Quad/Graphics founder once entertained a company function by riding in on an elephant.