R. R. Donnelley has been awarded a new multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement by Office Depot. Under this contract, which renews and expands the companies’ relationship, Donnelley will provide a range of production and related services for catalogs and direct mail.
The volume of GPO work contracted to the private sector totaled $59 million for the fourth quarter, compared to $78 million for the third quarter of 2011 and $66 million for fourth quarter of 2010. NPC Inc. won the most GPO work.
The Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization (PRIMIR) recently announced the officers and members of its 2012 Executive Committee. Eric Frank, vice president of marketing, KBA North America, was elected as the organization's chairman. A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Frank has more than 25 years of printing industry experience and is active in a number of industry associations.
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ February 2012 edition, including items on Intelligencer Printing, Burton & Mayer, RR Donnelley, BRD Printing, AlphaGraphics, Lehigh Phoenix, Corporate Press and PrintingForLess.com.
CHICAGO—RR Donnelley has been awarded a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement by Metro Inc., a grocery and pharmacy chain in Quebec and Ontario with more than 65,000 employees. Under the terms of the agreement, which renews and expands the companies’ relationship, Metro will draw upon Donnelley’s Canadian production, distribution and technology platform for its administrative and operational documents.
With more than $11 billion in annual revenues, Metro is a leader in the food and pharmaceutical sectors in Quebec and Ontario, where it operates a network of 564 supermarkets. Metro will draw upon Donnelley’s Canadian production, distribution and technology platform for its administrative and operational documents.
CHICAGO—RR Donnelley will close its Windsor, CT, facility in March, resulting in 117 lost jobs, the Hartford Courant reported. Donnelley notified the state Department of Labor in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
RR Donnelley’s stock began the trading session with a price of $14.66 and ended the day by sliding 15.82 percent to close at $12.13, according to a report by Galaxy Stocks. The company’s full-year revenue is expected to total $10.6 billion.
RR Donnelley & Sons is closing its Windsor (CT) location in March, putting 117 people out of work. The company is required by law to let the state Department of Labor know about its plans two months ahead of the layoffs, and it did so on Monday.
In Windsor, 69 production employees, 12 managers and 36 administrative employees, from accountants to database coordinators to operations clerks, will lose their jobs when the printing plant closes.
Jim Burke, economic development director for the town of Windsor, said the building once housed Aetna’s in-house printing division. At that time, there were 400 employees
CHICAGO—RR Donnelley announced it has been awarded a new multimillion-dollar, multiyear print management agreement by Chrysler Group. This new agreement significantly expands the two companies’ relationship.
