Quad/Graphics and LSC Communications announced Oct. 31
that their boards of directors have approved a deal to have Wisconsin-based
Quad acquire LSC Communications in an all-stock transaction valued at
approximately $1.4 billion, including the refinancing of LSC Communications’
debt.
As of September 30, the combined company would
have had annual revenue of approximately $8 billion.
The transaction is expected to close in
mid-2019.
Quad’s Joel Quadracci will be the chairman,
president and CEO of the combined company.
“This is a defining moment in Quad’s 47-year
journey,” Quadracci said. “We have grown from a printer with a single facility
to a global marketing solutions provider with a seamless, integrated offering
that creates more value for all our stakeholders at a time of significant media
disruption. Together with LSC Communications, we will create a compelling
combination of talent, expertise and client technology to further fuel our Quad
3.0 marketing solutions transformation and strengthen the role of print — a
proven and trusted media form in today’s multichannel world.”
“Since becoming a standalone public company at
the end of 2016, LSC Communications has added critical scale, capabilities and
technologies,” said Thomas J. Quinlan III, chairman and CEO of Chicago-based
LSC Communications. “We have done so through acquisitions and divestitures as
we work to strengthen our position as a leading innovator in print and
multichannel logistics. We are now taking the next major step in our evolution.”
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