CHICAGO - (Business Wire) R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NASDAQ:RRD) today announced that it has been awarded a multiyear, multimillion dollar agreement to produce catalogs, forms and labels and to provide prepress and logistics services by Harriet Carter, a leading catalog and online merchant. The agreement significantly expands the companies’ long term relationship and includes prepress, production and logistics services for Fresh Finds, a catalog title focused on kitchen wares and cooking tools, accents, and cleaning and organizing solutions for the home. “We are pleased to extend and expand our twenty five year relationship with RR Donnelley,” said Harriet Carter’s President William Garbose. “Over the years, we have worked to make it easy for our customers to take advantage of our wide selection of unique and helpful products. Our own approach is mirrored in RR Donnelley’s broad capabilities and integrated service resources.”
The companies’ new multi-year agreement begins in 2010.
John Paloian, RR Donnelley’s Chief Operating Officer, stated, “We deeply value our long-standing relationship with Harriet Carter and are proud to have the opportunity to expand the range of services that we provide. The ability to help our customers deliver integrated communications extends from end to end. RR Donnelley is uniquely positioned to provide catalogers with premedia, production, and logistics resources, as well as the operational documents and labels that help to enable and streamline transactions.”
About RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley (NASDAQ: RRD) is a global provider of integrated communications. Founded more than 145 years ago, the company works collaboratively with more than 60,000 customers worldwide to develop custom communications solutions that reduce costs, enhance ROI and ensure compliance. Drawing on a range of proprietary and commercially available digital and conventional technologies deployed across four continents, the company employs a suite of leading Internet based capabilities and other resources to provide premedia, printing, logistics and business process outsourcing services to leading clients in virtually every private and public sector.
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R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
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Doug Fitzgerald, Executive Vice President Communications
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