Transcontinental Sees Strong Improvement in Profitability

• With its innovations and state-of-the-art equipment, Transcontinental is increasing its market share in newspaper and flyer printing. In recent months several new customers have been added to its Canada-wide flyer printing and distribution network. In the United States, the new plant in Fremont, California, where printing of the San Francisco Chronicle is running smoothly, has won a new customer, a publisher of community newspapers in the San Jose area; the plant started printing one of these newspapers in April. It is also business growth that is driving the development of a hybrid platform to print newspapers and flyers being set up under a $1.7 billion, 18-year contract with The Globe and Mail, a first in Canada. The platform will be operational before the end of 2010.