the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . october 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message r.r. donnelley & sons company type public traded as nyse rrd industry commercial printing logistics and supply chain digital marketing founded 1864 headquarters 35 west wacker drive chicago illinois 60601 usa key people dan knotts ceo revenue 7 billion usd 2015 number of employees 42 000 2016 website see tfm www.rrdonnelley.com rr donnelley is a global integrated communications provider enabling organizations to create manage deliver and optimize their multichannel marketing and business communications . it is a fortune 500 company with corporate headquarters located in chicago illinois united states . contents 1 history 2 business acquisitions and mergers 3 references 4 external links history edit the company legally known as r.r. donnelley & sons company was founded in 1864 by richard robert donnelley . his son reuben h. donnelley founded the otherwise unrelated company r. h. donnelley . 1 rr donnelley s cartographic production facility in lancaster pennsylvania grew to be one of the largest custom mapmaking companies in the united states . in the early 1990s the division successfully integrated routing technology with its digital map databases and launched a separate company geosystems which several years later became mapquest . business acquisitions and mergers edit throughout its history particularly in the 1990s and 2000s rr donnelley purchased a number of other companies outright steadily increasing in size . in february 2004 rr donnelley merged with moore wallace inc. keeping the name rr donnelley as the name of the combined companies . donnelley went on to purchase officetiger a major publishing and financial outsourcing company as well as printing company banta corporation in 2007 . in may 2007 rr donnelley also acquired book and educational materials printer von hoffmann and creative pre press subsidiary anthology inc. from visant corporation . 2 an additional purchase at the beginning of 2007 was perry judd s holdings inc. a private catalog and magazine printer . at the beginning of 2008 rrd also announced the acquisition of pro line printing inc. 3 as of 2007 rr donnelley is the world s largest commercial printer . 4 in 2006 it acquired canadian bank note company s financial printing business consisting of documentation for initial public offerings . in 2007 rr donnelley was also named as an interested party in an attempt to purchase quebecor world . 5 in may 2009 the company tendered an unsolicited bid to purchase quebecor world . 6 in july 2008 the company established a multi year contract with f w publications inc. which will allow donnelley to print a large amount of f w s book and magazine publications . the contract is valued at about 80 million . 7 in 2010 and 2011 rr donnelley acquired bowne & co. san francisco based nimblefish technologies 8 helium.com 9 and austin based libredigital . 10 during the labor day weekend in september 2011 rr donnelly announced it would close its bloomsburg printing plant where penguin classics and paperbacks in the best selling twilight and idiot s guide series were printed . on august 15 2012 rr donnelley acquired edgar online . 11 in 2013 rr donnelly acquired consolidated graphics . 12 in august 2015 the company announced it would spin into three different companies . one would keep the name rr donnelley & sons whereas the other two would be titled lsc communications and donnelley financial solutions . 13 references edit donnelley gaylord . to be a good printer lakeside press 1977 asin b000s5kf9i the associated press . rr donnelley to buy van hoffmann . retrieved 2007 12 29 . dead link business wire . rr donnelley to acquire pro line printing inc. . retrieved 2008 02 27 . dead link rrd corporate website . frequently asked questions . retrieved 2007 12 22 . reuters 2007 12 18 . at least four firms eyeing quebecor world report . yahoo news canada . retrieved 2007 12 22 . dead link rr donnelley proposes .3 billion us takeover of quebecor world . cbc news . 2009 05 13 . r.r. donnelley gets 80m contract with f w . chicago tribune . 2008 07 08 . retrieved 2008 07 08 . rr donnelley acquires nimblefish technologies to expand multi channel marketing capabilities . rr donnelley press release . 2010 12 14 . retrieved 2012 01 10 . rr donnelley buys helium.com terms not disclosed . bloomberg businessweek . 2011 06 21 . retrieved 2012 01 10 . http globenewswire.com news release 2011 08 17 454114 229752 en rr donnelley acquires libredigital extends e reader services into book magazine and newspaper segments.html edgar online form 8 k current report filing date aug 15 2012 pdf . secdatabase.com . retrieved feb 26 2013 . rr donnelley to buy consolidated graphics for 620m 1 external links edit chicago portal illinois portal companies portal official site . r.r. donnelley & sons company . international directory of company histories . 2001 . encyclopedia.com . 6 feb. 2015 . v t e illinois based corporations fortune 500 corporations by size 2013 walgreens boots alliance archer daniels midland boeing caterpillar inc. state farm insurance abbott laboratories sears holdings united continental holdings deere & company mondel z international allstate mcdonald s exelon kraft heinz illinois tool works baxter international navistar international rr donnelley cdw hillshire brands discover financial w. w. grainger motorola solutions dover corporation tenneco officemax ingredion anixter cf industries holdings telephone and data systems united stationers old republic international other major public companies alphabetically abbvie acco brands accretive health allscripts amcol international corporation arthur j. gallagher & co. beam inc. brookdale senior living 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