The Seybold Report

RR Donnelley Introduces Cloud-based Document Management Platform

RR Donnelley has announced Roundtable, a Cloud-based document management platform. According to information provided in the news release, Roundtable is designed to be a robust collaboration and file sharing tool for companies requiring a level of security and guaranteed availability not found in other, more general, file sharing systems. more

RR Donnelley Signs Agreement with AmeriMark Direct to Provide Catalog Services

RR Donnelley has announced the company has signed a awarded a multi-year multi-million dollar agreement to provide catalog services to AmeriMark Direct and its Dr Leonard's Healthcare Corp. business. RR Donnelley will provide catalog production, co-binding, co-mailing and logistics services. Multiple RR Donnelley facilities will coordinate to deliver gravure and offset production resources as well as to provide logistics capabilities. more

RR Donnelley to Offer RFID and NFC Tagged Materials

RR Donnelley has announced the company had added RFID and NFC production capabilities to its printed electronics initiative. The company decided to offer the new services to provide customers with a single source for acquiring such materials and says the materials can be embedded in many of the products the company produces such as retail displays, product packaging, shipping labels, direct mail pieces, catalogs, and magazines. more

RR Donnelley Awarded Multi-Year Agreement by International Airlines Group

RR Donnelley has announced the company has been awarded a multi-year agreement by International Airlines Group (IAG) and its subsidiaries British Airways, Iberia, and Avios. Under the terms of the agreement, which renews and expands the companies’ relationship, RR Donnelley will provide a range of print management, direct response, warehousing, and logistics services. Enrique Grande, IAG Head of Procurement, is quoted in the press release about this announcement noting, while RR Donnelley has worked with British Airways before, this new agreement extends across all IAG companies with the intention of providing a more comprehensive and efficient service for the group. more

RR Donnelley Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Guideposts

Guideposts has signed a new multi-year, multi-million dollar, enterprise-wide print management contract with RR Donnelley. Under the agreement, RR Donnelley will provide comprehensive magazine, book, direct response, forms, labels, and other production and print management services as well as premedia, book fulfillment, and other logistical services. more

RR Donnelley announces ProteusJet Multiweb Digital Print Platform

RR Donnelley has announced development and installations of its new proprietary ProteusJet Multiweb platform in two of the company’s direct response production facilities. more 

RR Donnelley Acquires Sequence Personal

RR Donnelley has acquired Sequence Personal. The New York-based software provider was originally focused on creation of individualized medical journals with targeted advertising in the medical arena and from there expanded through a list of verticals. The company's software allows publishers to increase revenues by allowing advertisers to specify unique ad selection criteria for more targeted delivery. more

RR Donnelley and KBA partner to Develop Next Generation Digital Print Platforms

KBA will license RR Donnelley’s Apollo and other digital imaging technology and integrate it into new presses for piezoelectric digital inkjet printing for the packaging, securities, commercial, and newspaper markets. The new digital presses will be introduced in May 2012 at DRUPA in Dusseldorf, Germany. more

Bauer Publishing Signs New Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-Year Magazine Contract with RR Donnelley

RR Donnelley has signed a multi-million dollar, multi-year magazine production agreement with Bauer Publishing Group for printing, binding, and drop-shipping of weekly Woman’s World and for printing and related needs for the Life & Style Weekly magazines in the U.S. Southeast. more

L.L. Bean Signs Multi-Year Catalog and Logistics Agreement with RR Donnelley

RR Donnelley has announced the signing of a new multi-year contract with catalog and retail merchant L.L. Bean to produce Bean’s full-line and specialty catalogs including its Outdoors/Sporting and Home titles and to produce product package inserts. Donnelley will also provide list processing as well as co-binding services and co-mail services. more

RR Donnelley Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract with Shop Direct

RR Donnelley has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract with Shop Direct Group, the U.K.’s largest online and home shopping retailer, to provide numerous services including premedia, print management, transactional print, fulfillment, and inbound document processing. more

RR Donnelley Acquires Online Real Estate Marketing Tool Developer 8touches

RR Donnelley has acquired 8touches, an online provider of marketing tools to help real estate sales associates, brokers, Multiple Listing Service associations and others create customized direct mail, flyers, brochures, and marketing collateral. 8touches provides more than 1,000 customized templates along with mapping features and access to address and demographic information to help create targeted direct mail. more

RR Donnelley Completes Bowne Acquisition

Shortly after the Federal Trade Commission notified RR Donnelley and Bowne & Co. Inc. the waiting period required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act had been fulfilled, the two companies completed the transaction. more

Swanson Health Products Signs Catalog Contract with RR Donnelley

RR Donnelley will produce catalogs for Swanson Health Products under a multi-year agreement the two companies signed recently. The agreement specifically includes gravure, offset, and direct response printing and co-binding, which maximizes mail discounts. Swanson Health Products sells vitamins, supplements, and natural health care products direct to consumers. more

RR Donnelley and Bowne Extend Time to Complete Merger

RR Donnelley and Bowne & Co. Inc. have announced they have extended termination data for their merger agreement to January 23, 2011. Completion of the transaction remains subject to the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. more