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Quad Signs Long-term Contracts

PEWAUKEE, WI—Quad/Graphics ended the year 2002 having secured a total of $1 billion in new and renewed long-term contracts, the company reports. Among the publishers and catalogers with whom Quad/Graphics signed multi-year contracts in 2002 were Time Inc., U.S. News & World Report, Rodale Inc., Coldwater Creek, Smithsonian, Meredith Corp., Pottery Barn Kids and Orvis. In November, the printer began production on the January 2003 issue of one of the world's best-recognized magazines, National Geographic, using brand new equipment in its Martinsburg, WV, plant.