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RR Donnelley (RRD)
Global print/communications firm; commercial + book printing.
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Did you know2024
RR Donnelley, known as a book and commercial printer, was also the backbone of U.S. capital-markets paperwork. It printed IPO prospectuses, proxy statements and SEC filings and ran the filing/virtual-data-room services behind corporate finance — a business so distinct it was spun off in 2016 as Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN, ~$1.05B in sales), which has since become a SaaS regulatory-compliance software firm. The same industrial print-and-process competency served both Bibles and bond offerings; the financial half escaped print's decline by going digital. [verify: DFIN spinoff Oct2016/SEC-filing+dataroom+SaaS confirmed; $1.05B circa-2016]
Wikipedia ↗Substitution2022
RRD's 2016 three-way breakup is a print-industry case study in who survives a declining core. It spun off LSC Communications (books/magazines, ticker LKSD) and Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN, financial/compliance) from the core company. The piece most exposed to falling print volumes — LSC, the pure book-and-magazine printer — filed Chapter 11 in April 2020 (assets sold to Atlas Holdings), while DFIN pivoted to compliance software and survived; RRD itself was taken private by Chatham Asset Management in 2022 at $10.85/share. The print-bound segment died; the digitized segment lived. [verify: SEC/Printing Impressions confirm 2016 split, LSC Ch11 Apr2020 Atlas, Chatham 10.85]
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