Transcontinental Profile
Transcontinental Inc. engages in the flexible packaging business. It is also involved in the Canadian French-language educational publishing activities. The company mainly conducts business in Canada, the United States, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Segments
The company operates in three segments: Packaging Sector, Printing Sector, and Media Sector.
Packaging Sector
The Packaging Sector provides flexible packaging solutions with operations mainly in the United States, as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and China. Its platform is comprising one premedia studio and 28 production plants specializing in recycling, extrusion, printing, lamination and converting packaging solutions. This segment manufactures and recycles a variety of flexible plastic products, including rollstock, bags and pouches, coextruded films, shrink films and bags, advanced coatings, and services a variety of markets, including dairy, coffee, meat and poultry, pet food, agriculture, beverage, home and personal care products, industrial, consumer and medical products. Its facilities are mainly located in the United States, Canada and Latin America.
Printing Sector
The Printing Sector provides various integrated services for retailers, including premedia services, flyer and in-store marketing product printing, and door-to-door distribution through Publisac in Québec and Targeo, a pan-Canadian distribution brokerage service. The company also offers an array of innovative print solutions for newspapers, magazines, 4-colour books and personalized and mass marketing products. Its facilities are located in Canada.
Media Sector
The Media Sector provides various types of print and digital publishing products in French and English, including educational books, specialized publications for professionals, and newspapers. This segment is also involved in the trade book publishing in the supplemental educational material market in Québec and the distribution of French-language specialized books in Canada. It also offers strategic information for Québec’s construction industry; and is also a partner of CGI Inc. in operating Québec's electronic tendering system (SEAO).
Acquisitions
In June 2021, the company continuing its expansion in the in-store marketing product printing vertical, it acquired all the shares of BGI Retail Inc. (BGI), a full service in-store design and solution partner for retailers and global brands located in Paris, Ontario. This acquisition supports the growth objective for the company's in-store marketing product vertical.
In November 2021, the company acquired all the shares of H.S. Crocker Co., Inc. (H.S. Crocker), a manufacturer of die cut lids for the food industry and labels for the pharmaceutical industry located in Huntley, Illinois, and Exton, Pennsylvania. This acquisition enables the company to broaden its packaging solutions portfolio in the food sector, as well as expand its pharmaceutical and medical expertise in the specialized coating products offering.
History
Transcontinental Inc. was founded in 1976. It was incorporated in 1978.
