Transcontinental Reports Gains for Fiscal Year Despite Q4 Loss

The Corporation is in an excellent financial position to continue its growth, with a net indebtedness to total capitalization ratio of 39% as at October 31, 2008, at the low end of the range of 35% - 50% set by management.

New Operating Structure
Transcontinental’s primary mission is to help its customers reach and retain their target consumers. Management therefore plans to accelerate the development of new services in advertising personalization and new communication platforms, while strengthening and broadening its core services in publishing and printing. To support this growth strategy, management introduced a new operating structure in early fiscal 2009 and created the Marketing Communications Sector. This third sector (the other two being Media and Printing) will concentrate on the design and development of new marketing services. Initially it will cover the following activities: data analysis, premedia, permission-based email marketing, personalized marketing, custom communications and the printing of marketing products. The Marketing Communications Sector has annualized revenues of about $400 million.