Introduction

Executives in the News (EITN) is a site that provides information about current and former business personalities as well as up-and-coming business people who appear in media, both tradtional and social media.

Globe and Mail hands $1.7bn contract to Transcontinental

Transcontinental Inc, a global printing company, has announced that they will be printing the Globe and Mail for 18 years, following the end of the current print contract in 2010. Over the next two years Transcontinental will add improvements to their already sophisticated multi-platform line, including the ability to print and integrate flyers with the paper.

CEO and Publisher of the Globe and Mail, Phillip Crawley, said "High-quality color production capacity has always been a key point of distinction for The Globe and Mail. Transcontinental's commitment to providing the most progressive high-speed color printing capability will keep us at the leading edge. With millions of people every week reading the paper version of The Globe and Mail, sophisticated printing capability is vital to our business."

The paper, which was redesigned in April 2007, will be reduced in size by 1 3/4 inches to a height of 21 inches (53 centimetres).

Globe publisher Phillip Crawley said a full-fledged redesign will take place as the added use of colour and ability to print on various paper stocks will provide more options for advertisers and be welcome by readers.

"This gives us an opportunity to get a competitive advantage in terms of what we can offer that other people can't," he said in an interview from Toronto.

The Globe and Mail, which is owned by CTVglobemedia and in print for 163 years, reaches more than 2.80 million readers every week. According to International Newspaper Color Quality Club, or INCQC, the Globe and Mail is one of the top 50 newspapers in the world for its printed quality.

Transcontinental also prints The New York Times for the upper New York state and Ontario markets and La Presse. In 2006, Transcontinental bagged a billion-dollar contract to print the San Francisco Chronicle.

No comments:

Disclaimer

This website is mostly a showcase of other content, with editorials and opinions.  If, by error or ommission, your copyrighted content appears on this site, please contact the owner, and we will remove it immediately.  Thanks.