Transcontinental Creates Division Dedicated to Newspaper Printing in the U.S.

François Olivier, president of Transcontinental’s Printing Products and Services sector, added: “Our approach to the U.S. daily newspaper industry has been a gradual one. We first developed our model in Canada with The Globe and Mail and La Presse. The fact that we’ve been printing The New York Times for the Ontario and upstate New York markets since November 2005, and, as announced in November 2006, have signed a 15-year contract to print the San Francisco Chronicle, has done a great deal for our credibility and visibility in the industry. We were already in talks with most of the major players and now there is even more interest in our model. The potential growth for Transcontinental is enormous. We needed a full-time team dedicated to the job.”