RR Donnelley And AT&T Yellow Pages Sign Multi-Year Directory Printing Contract
Multi-Year Agreement Will Include All Regions Served by AT&T Yellow Pages
CHICAGO, February 17, 2006 -- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NYSE: RRD) has been awarded a multi-year agreement to print AT&T Yellow Pages’ telephone directories in a dozen states across the country, the company announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
St. Louis-based AT&T Yellow Pages, the world's largest directory publisher, publishes more than 100 million directories a year, which comprise more than 700 different telephone directory titles. It also provides the fastest growing Internet Yellow Pages service through YELLOWPAGES.COM.
"AT&T Yellow Pages and RR Donnelley have been doing business together for more than 100 years," said John Paloian, RR Donnelley group president, Publishing & Retail Services. The new deal includes directories produced for AT&T Yellow Pages in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and, upon the expiration of an existing agreement, in California and Nevada.
"The unprecedented magnitude of this agreement is a reflection of the importance and value that both parties place on our relationship," Paloian said. "It seems fitting that the world’s largest directory publisher and the world’s largest directory printer will continue to be working together. We are very proud and excited that AT&T Yellow Pages has the confidence in our performance to award us this new work and contract extension."
Dennis Payne, president of AT&T Yellow Pages stated, "The cornerstone of our success remains the superb value and competitive edge we provide our advertisers. Integral in providing these services is a keen focus on quality, efficiency, flexibility and speed in our production processes. RR Donnelley continues to be a partner who understands how to support these efforts."
RR Donnelley’s entire directory manufacturing platform will be used to produce the directories under the new agreement. This will allow RR Donnelley the ability to provide the greatest degree of manufacturing schedule flexibility possible in producing AT&T Yellow Pages directories.
About RR Donnelley
RR Donnelley (NYSE: RRD) is the world's premier full-service provider of print and related services, including document-based business process outsourcing. Founded more than 140 years ago, the company provides solutions in commercial printing, direct mail, financial printing, print fulfillment, forms and labels, logistics, call centers, transactional print-and-mail, print management, online services, digital photography, color services, and content and database management to customers in the publishing, healthcare, advertising, retail, technology, financial services and many other industries. The largest companies in the world and others rely on RR Donnelley's scale, scope and insight through a comprehensive range of online tools, variable printing services and market-specific solutions. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.rrdonnelley.com
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