Business
Canada’s Quebecor Printing Inc. agreed to acquire World Color Press Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., for $1.4 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create the largest commercial printer in the world.
July 13, 1999
World & Nation
A merger of two of Canada’s biggest newspaper chains, announced Wednesday, will create a new media powerhouse that challenges press baron Conrad Black’s grip on the national newspaper market.
Dec. 10, 1998
Canada’s Quebecor Media has pulled a $750-million junk bond sale, the latest casualty of a more jittery U.S. high-yield market, KDP Investment Advisors said Wednesday.
July 12, 2007
Maxwell Graphics Inc. says it will be acquired for $500 million in cash anad securities by Quebecor Inc. of Montreal, a printing, publishing and forest products company.
Nov. 9, 1989
Pierre Peladeau, 72, a Canadian media mogul who built one of Canada’s largest publishing and media empires.
Dec. 27, 1997
Sports
The NHL confirmed Tuesday that it had received expansion applications from Bill Foley for a franchise in Las Vegas, and from Quebecor for a franchise in Quebec City, Canada, and that the league will focus solely on those bids as it considers expanding beyond its current 30 teams.
July 21, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
A judge Tuesday approved an agreement between U.S. and British bankruptcy court officials aimed at reorganizing one of the main companies in the Maxwell family’s crumbling media empire.
Jan. 1, 1992
Las Vegas and Quebec City are moving closer in their bids to land a NHL franchise.
Sept. 28, 2015
A group hoping to bring NHL hockey to Las Vegas and another group trying to bring the NHL back to Quebec City announced they had submitted formal expansion applications to the league before Monday’s deadline.
July 20, 2015
Company Town
Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil filed for protection from creditors on Monday after the pandemic forced it to close shows around the world.
June 30, 2020