Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 04:36:58 GMT Content-type: text/html R.R. Donnelley & Sons: Up Close

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company is a world leader in managing, reproducing and distributing print and digital information for the publishing, retailing, merchandising and information-technology markets. It specializes in the production of catalogs, inserts, magazines, books, directories, and financial and computer documentation.

Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
1996 sales: $6.6 billion
1996 earnings: $(158) million
Employees: 38,000
Locations: 200+ in 26 countries on five continents
Trading symbol: DNY
Year founded: 1864

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R.R. Donnelley market positions

Catalog, Retail and Specialty Products

North America's leading printer serving catalogers, national retailers, direct marketers and general merchandisers, discount chains, specialty retailers and publishers of free-standing advertising and coupon newspaper inserts.
Service areas: Printing of catalogs and retail circulars; digital preproduction and printing; facilities management; specialty printing; direct marketing; customized versioning for consumer targeting; logistics planning/distribution.

Magazines

The leading North American printer of consumer and trade magazines. Major customers include publishers of consumer and special-interest magazines, news weeklies, Sunday newspaper magazines, and trade, professional and association publications.
Service areas: Preproduction services such as digital page layout, digital file transmission and color separation; gravure and offset printing with computer-to-plate technology; editorial and advertising versioning; logistics services.
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Global Commercial Printing

A leading printer of directories, catalogs, retail circulars, consumer and trade magazines, and books in Asia, Central Europe and Latin America, as well as directories, catalogs and magazines in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.
Service areas: Preproduction services; gravure and offset printing with computer-to-plate technology; editorial and advertising versioning; logistics services.

Telecommunications

The leading North American printer serving the U.S. and supporting global telephone, business-to-business and other directory markets. We do business with eight of the nine major U.S. telephone directory publishers. Globally, we serve the largest directory publisher in the United Kingdom, as well as publishers in Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Thailand.
Service areas: One-, two- and four-color printing of white pages and classified yellow-pages directories; mini-directories; CD-ROM directories; digital preproduction services; and product-enhancement consulting.
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 Book Publishing Services

The leading North American book printer, serving publishers of adult and juvenile trade books; professional and reference books; elementary, high-school and college texts; religious books; and book-club and mail-order books.
Service areas: Printing and binding of hardcover and softcover books, including demand-print titles; composition and preproduction services, including desktop publishing; fulfillment, distribution and kitting.

Financial Services

A premier provider of financial printing and communications-process services to customers in the investment-banking, legal, mutual fund, corporate and municipal sectors. State-of-the-art technology combined with process expertise results in total solutions for our customers' document management, production and distribution needs.
Service areas: Fast, accurate, 24-hour data and document management, typesetting, editing, proofing, printing, binding, electronic file creation, mailing and fulfillment, delivered through an electronically linked global network.
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Information Services

A leading provider of solutions to information-distribution challenges faced by companies in the retail banking, electronics, health care, travel and manufacturing industries; government; and advertising agencies.
Service areas: Electronic media production (fax, CD-ROM, Internet); marketing communication; creative design; and graphics management services.

Stream International

A leading provider of software-related services for the majority of the world's major software publishers and hardware manufacturers, as well as corporate software users.
Service areas: Text and software printing; binding; manufacturing; packaging; licensing; distribution; end-user training; administrative support; technical service and help-line support.

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