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OCTOBER 22	Quad Enters Into Strategic Alliance With YUDU Media Quad/Graphics and YUDU Media have entered into a strategic alliance that makes Quad/Graphics a minority shareholder of YUDU and add's YUDU's digital publishing solution to the printer's range of products.
OCTOBER 12	Quad Earns EPA Award for Freight Transportation Initiatives Printer recognized for fourth consecutive year for leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
SEPTEMBER 18	Quad Retains Top Patent Innovator Ranking The Wall Street Journal Patent Scorecard^TM again recognizes strength of company's patent portfolio and impact on the print industry.
SEPTEMBER 15	Quad Clients Dominate 2009 Multichannel Merchant Awards Eleven of the 25 award-winning catalogs were produced at Quad/Graphics.
JULY 27	Quad Recognized By EPA As Leading Green Power Purchaser Quad/Graphics appears on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) new Top 20 Printers List of the largest green power purchasers in the commercial printing business. Quad/Graphics purchases nearly 3 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually -- the equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of nearly 400 passenger
JULY 1	Quad/Graphics Becomes First Major Commercial Printer to Achieve LEED Certification for a Manufacturing Plant The printer's Sussex, Wis., manufacturing facility has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, Silver rating, from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
APRIL 22	Quad/Graphics Teams With Tall Pines Conservancy to Preserve 325-Acre Parcel of Land Quad/Graphics President & CEO Joel Quadracci is proud to announce on Earth Day that the company has donated a conservation easement on its 325-acre Camp/Quad parcel of land in Erin, Wis., to Tall Pines Conservancy, a non-profit land trust dedicated to preserving natural areas in and adjoining Northwestern Waukesha County.
FEBRUARY 3	Quad/Graphics' Innovative Ad Portal Is Adopted by Condé Nast Portal allows advertisers and agencies to submit ads online and directly to publisher's ad management and production systems
JANUARY 12	Quad/Graphics to Reduce Production Capacity Across Its Manufacturing Platform Quad/Graphics will shut down the equivalent of one plant's worth of capacity to better match demand for print services.
DECEMBER 30	Kelly Vanderboom Named Vice President & Treasurer In his newly appointed role, 12-year company veteran Kelly Vanderboom will continue to work closely with Senior Vice President of Finance & CFO John Fowler to develop, implement and finance the strategies that will propel Quad/Graphics' ongoing profitable growth.
DECEMBER 26	Windhover Foundation Gives $1 Million to Food Banks and Meal Programs in Southeastern Wisconsin, Other Locations Quad/Graphics President & CEO Joel Quadracci on December 23 announced a $1 million donation to food banks and meal programs in Southeastern Wisconsin and six other U.S. locations where Quad/Graphics has printing facilities.
OCTOBER 7	Quad Earns EPA SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award For leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution from its freight operations, Quad has received its third consecutive Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay Transport Partnership.
AUGUST 29	Quad Releases Innovative Ad Portal AdShuttle.com allows advertisers and agencies to electronically submit ads directly to publishers' ad management and production systems
AUGUST 6	Quad/Graphics and Winkowski Announce New Leadership Appointments and Capital Investments in Poland-Based Winkowski To better serve magazine publishers, catalogers and retailers throughout Poland and Europe, U.S.-based Quad/Graphics and Poland-based Winkowski have augmented company leadership and committed to capital investments totaling 35 million USD (72 million PLN) at Winkowski.
JUNE 16	Quad Earns Certifications From FSC, SFI and PEFC Quad/Graphics has certifications from the world's three leading independent, non-profit, non-government organizations devoted to the responsible management of the world's forests.
JUNE 5	Quad to Invest $25 Million to Strengthen and Expand Direct Mail Services QuadDirect to add new digital and variable cutoff offset presses, high-speed envelope inserters and commingling machinery as well as upgrade Pewaukee, Wis., facility for state-of-the-art DM production.
MAY 27	Quad/Graphics Named Among Top Patent Innovators Quad/Graphics is the only printer among the Top 35 companies featured in the most recent release of The Wall Street Journal Patent ScorecardTM for Heavy Industrial Equipment.
MAY 16	Quad/Graphics Honored as Friend of Environment Printer recognized for numerous voluntary pollution prevention measures
MAY 9	Quad/Graphics to Advance Co-Mail Capabilities Across Entire Manufacturing Platform Printer will build on its success of having co-mailed 1-billion-plus catalogs in one year's time.
APRIL 22	Quad/Graphics Honors Best-Performing Suppliers Eighteen of our most outstanding supplier partners were honored during Quad/Graphics' annual Supplier of the Year Awards dinner on April 3.
JANUARY 7	Quad Registers Printing Plants for LEED Certification Company is on target to be first major commercial printer to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for all 10 of its core U.S. manufacturing sites.
OCTOBER 29	Quad Wins Environmental Excellence Award Company's proactive freight transportation practices reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
AUGUST 27	Leadership Changes at Openfirst Openfirst welcomes Steve Jaeger as President and Eric Blohm as Vice President of Sales.
JUNE 8	QuadMed Helps MilwaukeeCares Launch Pilot Program MilwaukeeCares has partnered with QuadMed, the medical division of printer Quad/Graphics, to pilot a program for coordinating free access to healthcare for low income, uninsured patients in Milwaukee County.
MAY 1	Now Open: The Harry V. Quadracci Printing Education and Technology Center The Harry V. Quadracci Printing Education and Technology Center on the campus of Waukesha County (Wis.) Technical College is now open for business.