RR Donnelley Expands Packaging and Product Labeling Platform With Acquisition of StratusGroup
22 November 2011 - 10:30PM
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Nasdaq:RRD)
today announced that it has acquired West Chester, OH based
StratusGroup, Inc., a full service manufacturer of custom pressure
sensitive label and paperboard packaging products for health and
beauty, food, beverage and other segments.
"With the exponential growth in media choices available to
consumers, point-of-purchase packaging plays an increasingly
important role in our customers' marketing mixes," said John
Paloian, RR Donnelley's Chief Operating Officer. "StratusGroup's
superb decorative labeling and paperboard resources offer an
excellent complement to our prime label, corrugated and other
global packaging capabilities. Its location is also ideal, with its
facility in close proximity to RR Donnelley kitting and fulfillment
centers. We anticipate being able to immediately expand
StratusGroup's utilization and to offer its customers even more
extensive integrated solutions."
StratusGroup's (www.stratusgrp.com) pressure sensitive
capabilities include digital, paper, film, multi-ply, expanded
content and a range of other solutions. It serves customers with
custom paperboard products for folding carton, insert, multi-pack,
tray and other applications. It also provides comprehensive
structural design and prototyping services.
"Over the course of nearly two decades, StratusGroup has been
serving customers with innovative capabilities and exceptional
quality," said Robert Curran, President of StratusGroup. "As a part
of RR Donnelley, we will offer our customers an even broader range
of resources and draw on its world class fulfillment and logistics
capabilities to deliver even more complete solutions."
RR Donnelley's growing international packaging services include
packaging design, print production, finishing, assembly, pack-out
and other capabilities. The company provides packaging and labeling
solutions to medical products, electronics, food and beverage,
consumer packaged goods, industrial products, and a wide range of
other customers. In September RR Donnelley completed the
acquisition of Genesis Packaging & Design, a full service
provider of custom packaging.
About RR Donnelley RR Donnelley (Nasdaq:RRD) is
a global provider of integrated communications. Founded more than
147 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 products and services to
leading clients in virtually every private and public
sector.
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Responsibility Report, visit the company's web site at
http://www.rrdonnelley.com
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Executive Vice President Communications
Tel: 630-322-6830
E-mail: doug.fitzgerald@rrd.com
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Senior Vice President Finance
312-326-8155
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