Quad/Graphics : An Affair to Remember

It started out as a friendly, innocent lunch, which is usually how it happens. What it evolved into was the largest, most transformational acquisition in the history of the U.S. printing industry.

Somewhere between Joel Quadracci's Cobb salad and the halibut enjoyed by Mark Angelson was the groundwork of something huge and revolutionary, the genesis of an event requiring not only intestinal fortitude, but the financial wherewithal to pull off—coming on the heels of the most crippling U.S. fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, no less. Angelson, the executive nursing a once-proud printing behemoth out of bankruptcy, wasn't just hoping that Quadracci would pick up the check. Angelson wanted him to offer hope for Worldcolor's future.