RR Donnelley

Greenville’s School Specialty filed a civil lawsuit last month in U.S. District Court against R.R. Donnelley & Sons, which acquired the assets of the former Menasha-based Banta Corp. and employs about 1,400 people in Fox Cities (all cities in Wisconsin). School Specialty claims the Chicago-based company delivered a defective product that cost the manufacturer of educational materials more than $1 million.

R.R. Donnelley filed a counterclaim arguing that School Specialty left out a key detail from its job specifications. It says School Specialty cost the printing firm hundreds of thousands of dollars when it took the order to another business.

Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department will celebrate International Printing Week from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 2013, with a lecture series, banquet and Career Day, thanks to industry sponsors committed to preserving the rich heritage of the printing industry.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons has been awarded a multiyear print management agreement by Scotiabank, a leading multinational financial services provider based in Canada. Donnelley will provide digital printing, forms production, kitting and fulfillment services, regulatory communications and more.

CHICAGO—RR Donnelley has been awarded a multiyear agreement that renews and expands its relationship with AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a membership of more than 37 million people 50 and older.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today affirmed its “BB” corporate credit rating, as well as its other ratings, on R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. At the same time, we revised the rating outlook to negative from stable. The company reported weaker-than-expected results for the third quarter, with revenues declining 6.5 percent in part because of steep declines for commercial printing and variable printing services, which are economically sensitive.

We see the risk that revenue declines, which had been generally in the low single digits, could accelerate, especially given the weak economic forecasts...We regard the company's financial risk profile as “significant”

HarperCollins Publishers will close its last two U.S. warehouses in Scranton, PA, and Nashville as it hands over U.S. distribution duties to R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. The two companies have agreed to create one centralized warehouse that will become the distribution site for all HarperCollins U.S. titles.

New York-based HarperCollins said it expects the new facility to open next summer. The company said the move will save money as well as streamline the distribution process.

The agreement extends a May 2011 deal with R.R. Donnelley, which...called for Donnelley to provide warehousing and distribution services, leading HarperCollins to close two of four

Under the terms of the agreement, RR Donnelley will provide a comprehensive range of magazine and direct-response printing, premedia and logistics services. The company will produce 100 percent of AARP’s periodicals, including AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin, the two largest circulation print publications in the world.

Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impression’ November 2012 edition, including items on Quad/Graphics, RR Donnelley, Foxfire Printing and Packaging, xpedx, Sheridan Books, Sheridan Books, NewPage Corp. and Enhanced Digital Printing.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons reported third-quarter-2012 net earnings of $71.4 million on net sales of $2.5 billion, compared to net earnings of $158 million on net sales of $2.7 billion in the third quarter of 2011.

SAN FRANCISCO—RR Donnelley found itself in the national spotlight Thursday when it mistakenly filed an early draft of Google's quarterly earnings report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hours earlier than planned.