QUEBECOR WORLD -- Marriage Made in Heaven

BY ERIK CAGLE

Integration is defined as forming into a whole, uniting or incorporating into a larger unit. See: Quebecor World.

It is difficult to put the merger of Quebecor Printing and World Color Press into perspective. The M&A shocker that ushered out 1999 has resulted in the largest commercial printing (et al) conglomerate in North America—the largest in the world. When the final receipts for 2000 were tallied, Quebecor World stood at $6.5 billion in sales. Only R.R. Donnelley & Sons, at $5 billion, was remotely close. The difference between the two could form a company that would rank eighth on the Printing Impressions 400 ranking of the largest printers for 2000.