Quad/Graphics, a Pewaukee, Wisc.-based printer of magazines, catalogs, and commercial products, has reported that it ended the year 2002 having secured a total of $1 billion in new and renewed long-term contracts.

Among the publishers and catalogers with whom Quad/Graphics, with annual sales of $18 billion, signed multi-year contracts were Time Inc., U.S. News & World Report, Rodale Inc., Coldwater Creek, Smithsonian, Meredith Corporation, Pottery Barn Kids and Orvis.

“Certainly 2002 was a year of changes and challenges, but it was also a year of opportunities, and we seized every opportunity to extend relationships with existing customers, while extending our services to new ones,” says Thomas A. Quadracci, Quad/Graphics’ president and chief executive.

Quadracci credited the stellar year to the company’s progressive print-production and customer service capabilities, which are fully integrated across the company’s network of production facilities. By integrating its capabilities across people, processes, and plants, he says, the company has significantly expanded production options while contracting turnaround time.

“Quad/Graphics’ singular approach to printing enables us to produce the highest quality products with more of the features our sophisticated clients want, in the least amount of time,” explains Quadracci. “In short, we have a manufacturing platform engineered for nimbleness, which has proved attractive to an increasing number of publishers and catalogers.”

Source: www.gammag.com