Quebecor, Sun and TVA: chronology
Landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
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- antecedents
- beginnings (1950)
- buys Hachette's Canadian distribution (1983)
- buys Sun Media (1998)
Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline on this site.
Antecedents
1856 Rand McNally founded in Chicago
1904 World Color Printing founded in St Louis Missouri
1917 Rand McNally publishes first US road maps using numbered highways
Beginnings
1950 Pierre Péladeau buys Le Journal de Rosemont
1951 buys L'Est montréalais
1951 launches Le Guide de l'Est, Le Guide de Saint-Michel and Le Guide de Saint-Laurent neighborhood papers
1952 establishes Les Publications indépendantes to publish newspapers
1954 buys printing presses of Le Canada newspaper and opens Hebdo printshop
1955 entertainment weekly Nouvelles et potins launched
1958 Nouvelles et potins renamed Nouvelles illustrées
1960-61 sells neighbourhood newspapers
1961 buys Journal des vedettes
1962 founds Montréal Offset printing company
1962 buys Radiomonde, La Revue Populaire and Le Samedi
1963 launches Photo-Vedettes and Le Grand Journal illustré
1964 launches Le Journal de Montréal
1964 launches Messageries Dynamiques
1965 establishes Quebecor
1966 Métro-Express newspaper closes
1967 launches Journal de Québec
1967 buys Le Grand Journal
1969 buys Échos-Vedettes
1969 buys Dumont printing
1970 founds Encres du Québec
1971 buys Graphic Web printing plant in Ontario, Quebecor's first out-of-province purchase
1971 Toronto Sun founded
1972 Quebecor listed on NYSE and Montreal Stock Exchange
1973 buys Etco Photo Color
1974 buys Wilson Publishing in Ontario and Sunday Express, Montreal's only English-language weekly
1974 buys Vivre magazine publishing
1975 buys several regional newspapers and the Franco-Quebec publishing company Les Presses de la Cité
1976 buys Service de Musique Trans-Canada
1977 launches Philadelphia Journal (closed 1981)
1978 founds Éditions Quebecor publishing house
1978 Edmonto Sun founded
1979 Groupe Quebecor established as holding company
1980 launches Filles d'aujourd'hui magazine
1980 Calgary Sun founded
1982 buys St-Romuald Offset printing company
1983 buys Winnipeg Sun from Thomson
Buys Hachette's Canadian arm
1983 buys Québec-Livres and the Hachette Canada distribution network from Hachette
1983 launches Les Idées de ma maison interior decorating magazine
1984 buys regional Québec newspapers
1982 Maclean-Hunter group buys 50% of Sun group for C$54m
1985 Quebecor buys Pendell Printing in Michigan, its first printing plant outside Canada
1985 closes Sunday Express
1986 buys Groupe de Musique Experts (merged with Service de Musique Trans-Canadato form Groupe de Musique Trans-Canada)
1987 buys Donohue papermills in partnership with Robert Maxwell
1987 buys Eusey Press and Somerset Publishing in US
1987 buys The Record in Quebec
1987 Sun sells Houston Post to Singleton's Media News for US$150m
1988 buys BCE's printing plants
1988 Sun buys Bowes Publishers, chain of small dailies, weeklies, magazines and printing operations
1988 Sun launches Ottawa Sun
1989 Quebecor buys Montreal Daily News
1989 buys Éditions Le Nordais
1989 buys Ronalds Printing
1990 buys Maxwell Graphics' printshops
1991 buys Graphicas Monte Alban in Mexico
1992 buys Arcata Graphics
1993 buys Fécomme printing plant in France, Quebecor's first acquisition in Europe
1993 Rand McNally buys Allmaps Canada
1994 Quebecor founds Quebecor Multimedia
1994 Rogers buys Maclean-Hunter for C$3.1bn
1994 Quebecor buys Libre Expression publishing house
1995 buys Jean Didier printing company in France
1995 buys Hunter Print in England
1995 establishes printing subsidiary in India
1995 buys St Remy Media publishing house
1996 buys Libre Expression publishing house
1996 buys Groupe Lopès and Inter-Routage in France
1996 buys Altair company in Spain
1996 Rogers sells 65% stake in Sun Publishing, C$411m management buyout results in Sun Media Corporation
1996 World Color buys Ringier America from Ringier for $415m
1997 Quebecor buys TQS television network
1997 buys Alain Stanké, Trécarré and Diffulivre publishing houses
1997 buys printing plants in Chile and England
1997 death of Pierre Péladeau
1997 Sun buys London Free Press and Netmar group of community publications
1997 World Color Press buys Rand McNally
1998 Sun buys Brockville Recorder and Times
1998 Sun buys Hamilton Spectator, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Guelph Daily Mercury and Cambridge Reporter from Hollinger
1998 buys printing plants in Peru, Colombia and Scandinavia
Buys Sun Media
1998 buys Sun Media group - assets include daily/local newspapers, CANOE Internet portal and Toronto TV station Pulse 24
1998 buys Champion International’s two Texas newsprint plants
1999 merger of Quebecor Printing and World Color Press in US$2.7bn deal to create Quebecor World
1999 merger of Intellia and Informission to create Nurun Inc
1999 buys Thomas Bros. Maps
1999 sells The Record to Hollinger
2000 sells interest in Donohue to Abitibi-Consolidated (which later buys Tribune-controlled QUNO)
2000 buys Groupe Vidéotron
2001 sells TQS television network to Cogeco
2001 sells electronic security business Protectron for C$61.5m
2002 buys Hachette Filipacchi Medias printing assets in Europe (inc printing and bindery facilities in France and Hachette's 50% ownership of Helio Charleroi in Belgium)
2004 buys Toronto 1 tv station from CHUM for C$46m, sells 30% stake in Toronto news station CP24 to CHUM