Quebecor Media Announces the Integration of Canoe Into Sun Media
13 5월 2009 - 4:32AM
Marketwired
Quebecor Media announces the integration of Canoe into Corporation
Sun Media, the country's largest newspaper publisher with nearly
250 publications, including the Journal de Montreal, Toronto Sun,
Calgary Sun, 24 h Vancouver and London Free Press. This integration
reflects Quebecor Media's determination to seize the opportunities
available on the new media landscape by combining assets from its
Internet and newspaper operations.
The new multimedia company will allow Quebecor Media to move
another step forward in rolling out its new business model,
designed to generate innovative and fruitful synergies within its
multidisciplinary teams so that customers may take full advantage
of the digital world. "Our business environment changes constantly
and quickly. The current reality dictates that we must always be
reinventing ourselves, and that's exactly what we're doing today.
The integration of Canoe into Sun Media will optimize the strategic
alignment and efficiency of the operations by providing strong,
unified leadership and will accelerate our multimedia evolution, in
particular by eliminating organizational silos that have become
obsolete in the multi-platform era," said Quebecor Media President
and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Karl Peladeau.
Brands that are even stronger
According to Mr. Peladeau, Quebecor Media's properties and
brands will grow even further as a result of the superb sharing of
expertise made possible by this integration.
"As an Internet leader in Canada and a local and national
interactive media provider of news and entertainment websites,
Canoe will bring an invaluable wealth of knowledge and
complementary instincts to the Sun Media team. Similarly, with its
experience as the largest newspaper publisher in Canada and as a
content manager, the Sun Media team will offer considerable value
added to Canoe. In fact, this marriage will allow all of us to get
the most out of both worlds and to better meet the needs of readers
of our newspapers and visitors to our portals." The Canoe.ca brand
and portal, as well as the jobboom.com, micasa.ca, autonet.ca,
espacecanoe.ca, classifiedextra.ca, canoe.tv, canoeklix.ca and
reseaucontact.com brands, will remain in place and the Canoe team
will continue to support the various Internet initiatives of
Quebecor Media's subsidiaries.
The strength of two industry leaders
There will be a new management team made up of senior executives
from both organizations under the direction of Pierre Karl
Peladeau, who will continue to serve as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Sun Media.
Finally, Bruno Leclaire, who held the positions of President and
Chief Executive Officer of Canoe and Vice-President, Interactive
Media Division of Quebecor Media, will take a well-earned break for
a few months starting at the end of May, but will continue to
discuss different mandates with Quebecor Media management. "We
strongly hope that we can count on Bruno's talent and vision for
other projects that our group will undertake in the future. Without
a doubt, Bruno has been a major asset to the Quebecor Media
management team for the last nine years.
He made it possible for all of our organization's components to
make an energetic leap to digital and multimedia, and to get
involved in interactivity. Through his leadership, he gathered the
most talented people in the industry around him. I thank him
personally for his outstanding contribution," added Quebecor
Media's President and Chief Executive Officer.
For his part, Bruno Leclaire noted, "I joined the ranks of
Quebecor in 2000 when I was an entrepreneur and had just founded
Jobboom. Throughout my journey here, I've been motivated by the
entrepreneurial culture that is fostered at Quebecor. The company's
ability and willingness to take risks, as well as its boldness,
continue to fascinate me today. I thank Pierre Karl for the
confidence he has shown in me throughout our years of working
together, and I take pride in leaving my 'offspring' in such fine
health and with such a good team supporting it. I was very
fortunate to be able to develop this venture with such a solid,
creative, innovative team of managers and employees."
Referring to the profound changes the media industry is
undergoing, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Quebecor
Media expressed enthusiasm about the new organization. "Today, we
are combining the strengths of two industry leaders. Pooling their
assets, expertise and energy can only result in a winning
combination for our customers," concluded Mr. Peladeau.
Quebecor Media
Quebecor Media Inc. is a subsidiary of Quebecor Inc. (TSX:
QBR.A)(TSX: QBR.B), a communications company with operations in
North America, Europe and Asia. Quebecor Media owns companies
operating in numerous media-related businesses. Its Videotron Ltd.
subsidiary is the largest cable operator in Quebec and a major
Internet Service Provider and provider of telephone and business
telecommunications services. Through Sun Media, Quebecor Media is
Canada's largest publisher of newspapers. Through TVA Group Inc.,
it operates the largest French-language over-the-air television
network in Quebec, a number of specialty channels and the
English-language over-the-air station Sun TV. Quebecor Media also
operates Canoe Inc. and its network of English- and French-language
Internet properties in Canada. Another subsidiary of Quebecor
Media, Nurun Inc., is a major interactive technologies and
communications agency with offices in Canada, the United States,
Europe and Asia. Quebecor Media is engaged in magazine publishing
(TVA Publishing Inc.), book publishing and distribution (Quebecor
Media Book Group), the production, distribution and retailing of
cultural products (Archambault Group Inc., TVA Films), the rental
and retailing of DVDs and video games (Le SuperClub Videotron
ltee), and the publication of print and online directories
(Quebecor MediaPages).
Contacts: Quebecor Media Inc. Isabelle Dessureault
Vice-President, Public Affairs 514-380.7501
isabelle.dessureault@quebecor.com
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