as nyse quad industry commercial and industrial printing founded 1971 founder harry v. quadracci headquarters sussex wisconsin united states key people joel quadracci president and ceo products magazines revenue 4 billion usd 1 2012 number of employees 25 000 1 2013 website qg.com quad plant near lomira wisconsin along u.s. highway 41 quad graphics is an american printing company based in sussex wisconsin . it was founded on july 13 1971 by harry v. quadracci son of harry r. quadracci whom the company website calls the father of web offset printing . it was co founded by harry v quadracci s wife elizabeth quadracci . the company has 39 2 printing facilities in the united states as well as facilities throughout europe canada and latin america . quad prints numerous magazines including businessweek milwaukee magazine a title the company owns and self publishes time sports illustrated and people . in july 2010 quad graphics acquired competitor world color press . 3 in august 2010 the company announced that it would be closing five of its plants as part of a consolidation plan related to the acquisition of world color press . 4 in november 2010 quad graphics inc acquired commercial and specialty products printer hgi company . 5 in july 2011 quad announced an asset swap with the transcontinental inc where quad would acquire transcontinental s mexican assets along with its black and white book printing business for u.s. export in exchange for seven of quad graphics canadian facilities . 6 former quebecor world plant in aurora ontario is now a tc transcontinental facility . on january 16 2013 quad graphics announced that it completed its acquisition of vertis holdings inc. 1 references edit a b c quad completes acquisition of vertis . retrieved 2013 01 18 . quad graphics north american print production facilities . quad graphics . retrieved 13 july 2011 . quad graphics to acquire worldcolor press release . retrieved 2010 11 01 . quad graphics begins plant consolidation phase of integration plan . retrieved 2010 08 06 . quad graphics acquires commercial and specialty products printer hgi company . market watch . retrieved 8 november 2010 . quad graphics to acquire mexican printing assets from and sell canadian assets to transcontinental press release . retrieved 2011 07 13 . external links edit qg.com quad graphics homepage v t e major companies based in milwaukee allen bradley a. o. smith brady corporation harley davidson johnson controls joy global kohl s koss magnetek manpowergroup marcus corporation miller brewing company northwestern mutual quad graphics rockwell automation briggs & stratton former a. f. gallun & sons blackhawk chain belt company john pritzlaff hardware company journal media group marshall & ilsley midwest airlines nordberg manufacturing company pfister & vogel this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this wisconsin related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title quad graphics & oldid 743559274 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies based in milwaukeewaukesha county wisconsinunited states publishing company stubswisconsin stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 05 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view