Transcontinental Reports Improved Profitability in Fourth Quarter

• the extension, to August 2010, of the $300 million accounts receivable securitization program put in place in 2001;

• renewed bank credit facilities of $150 million for one year with its bank syndicate; on December 4, 2009, the Corporation reimbursed and cancelled these credit facilities;

• a $100 million credit facility (five years) from the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec;