Quebecor Inc. 2000 Annual Report
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2000 ANNUAL REPORT ANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT 2000 QUEBECOR INC. Table of Contents General Information Financial Highlights 1 ANNUAL MEETING Overview of Quebecor 2 Shareholders are invited to attend the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2001 in the Ballroom of the Montreal Message to Shareholders 4 Marriott Château Champlain, 1 Place du Canada, Montreal, Quebec. STOCK EXCHANGE LISTINGS QUEBECOR MEDIA INC. 6 The Class A Multiple Voting Shares and the Class B Subordinate Voting Shares Interview with Pierre Karl Péladeau 8 are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols QBR.A and QBR.B, respectively. Newspapers 10 Web Integration/Technology 12 REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT: Computershare Trust Company of Canada Internet/Portals 14 Place Montreal Trust Leisure and Entertainment 16 1800 McGill College Montreal, Quebec Broadcasting 20 H3A 3K9 TRANSFER OFFICES: QUEBECOR WORLD INC. 22 • Toronto Printing 24 • Vancouver • United States (American Securities Transfer & Trust Inc. – Denver, CO) FINANCIAL SECTION 28 AUDITORS KPMG LLP INFORMATION For further information or to obtain copies of the Annual Report and the Annual Information Form, please contact the Department of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications of the Company at (514) 877-5130, or address correspondence to: 612 St. Jacques Street Montreal, Quebec H3C 4M8 Web Site: http://www.quebecor.com Vous pouvez vous procurer une copie française de ce rapport annuel à l’adresse indiquée ci-dessus. DUPLICATE COMMUNICATIONS Shareholders who receive more than one copy of a document, particularly of the Annual Report or the quarterly reports, are requested to notify Montreal Trust Company at (514) 982-7555 or 1 800 564-6253. CURRENCY All dollar amounts appearing in this Annual Report are in Canadian dollars, except if another currency is specifically mentioned. OUR COVER In 2000, Quebecor reorganized its corporate structure CREDITS and marshalled its forces around two operational poles: Graphic Design: St. Remy Media Inc. industrial operations, spearheaded by Quebecor World, Printing: Quebecor World Graphique-Couleur and media operations, consolidated under Quebecor Media. Photography: Guy Tessier After creating Quebecor World, the world’s largest com- ISBN: 2-922430-07-3 mercial printer, Quebecor is building Quebecor Media, a Legal Deposit – Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, 2001 Canadian platform for convergence which will capture Legal Deposit – National Library of Canada, 2001 synergies among the Company’s media properties and provide a springboard for international expansion. Printed in Canada Highlights Years ended December 31, 2000, 1999 and 1998 (in millions of Canadian dollars, except per share data) 2000 1999 1998 (Restated) (Restated) Operations Revenues $ 10,914.8 $ 8,440.3 $ 6,173.5 Operating income before amortization, financial expenses, gains on dilution and reserve for restructuring of operations and other special charges 1,790.1 1,309.3 852.3 Contribution to net income Continued operations 203.1 181.9 146.5 Goodwill amortization (66.8) (41.1) (18.4) Non-recurring items 702.0 296.0 – Discontinued operation 246.1 40.5 44.2 Net income 1,084.4 477.3 172.3 Cash provided by continued operations 1,447.6 1,105.9 647.4 Per share data Contribution to net income Continued operations $ 3.14 $ 2.80 $ 2.24 Goodwill amortization (1.03) (0.63) (0.28) Non-recurring items 10.86 4.57 – Discontinued operation 3.81 0.63 0.68 Net income 16.78 7.37 2.64 Dividends 0.51 0.48 0.44 Shareholders' equity 43.21 26.57 21.99 Number of shares outstanding at year-end (in millions) 64.6 64.6 64.7 Financial position Working capital $ (1,785.8) $ 556.3 $ 612.9 Shareholders’ equity 2,792.2 1,716.0 1,423.7 Total assets 17,603.3 15,246.9 9,889.6 Employees 52,000 60,000 39,000 Return on average equity Continued operations 9.0 % 11.6 % 11.1 % Total 48.1 % 30.4 % 13.0 % REVENUE GROWTH (in millions of dollars) 12,000 10,914.8 10,000 8,440.3 8,000 6,173.5 6,000 5,303.5 4,656.0 4,000 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Quebecor Inc. 1 Overview of Quebecor QUEBECOR MEDIA INC. Revenues Operations (in millions of dollars) Employees Newspapers $ 850 5,900 Sun Media Corporation • 2nd largest newspaper group in Canada • Publishes 8 urban dailies and 190 community newspapers Leisure and Entertainment $ 225 1,650 Groupe Archambault inc. • Largest chain of music stores in Eastern Canada • 12 megastores • 3 e-commerce sites: archambault.ca, camelot.ca, paragraphbooks.com Publicor • Major Quebec magazine publisher, also engaged in contract publishing Book Sector • Largest group of publishing houses in Quebec • Specializes in general literature, textbooks, legal texts, contract publishing Le SuperClub Vidéotron • Largest chain of video stores in Quebec • 166 stores • 30% of the Quebec market Web Integration/Technology $ 127 1,200 Nurun Inc. • A network of offices in North America, Europe, Latin America • Online marketing, e-commerce, automated publishing solutions, intranets and extranets, Web sites, systems integration Mindready Solutions Inc. • Test engineering and real-time communications solutions Internet/Portals $ 12 300 CANOE • Two extensive networks of portals and special-interest sites Netgraphe Inc. • canoe.ca and canoe.qc.ca in Canada, canoe.fr in France and micanoa.com in Spain • Infinit.com portal and toile.qc.ca search engine • Over 210 million page views per month on the CANOE and Netgraphe networks Cable Television and Broadcasting Vidéotron ltée After the acquisition of Groupe Vidéotron in October 2000, TVA Group Inc. Quebecor Media filed an application with the CRTC for the transfer of the operating licenses of Vidéotron ltée (cable television) and TVA Group Inc. (broadcasting). In the event of a favourable decision by the CRTC expected in June 2001, these assets will be added to Quebecor Media’s properties. 2000 HIGHLIGHTS Groupe Archambault US$500 million contract acquires Camelot-Info Integration of with Pacific Bell extended Mindready Solutions signs World Color Press Quebecor makes offer 5-year service agreement with begins Quebecor WWorldorld for Groupe Vidéotron Nortel Networks January February March April May June $1 billion contract with Que-Net Media™ created Sears Canada extended Nurun enters into a strategic Quebecor sells its interest in partnership with Antártica Group Donohue to Abitibi-Consolidated of Chile and becomes its major shareholder 2 Quebecor Inc. QUEBECOR WORLD INC. Quebecor WWorldorld Revenues Plants/Countries Operations (in millions of dollars) Employees Over 160 plants and • The only truly global printer related facilities • Over 85 acquisitions in one decade • 16 countries • Lines of business: magazines, advertising inserts and newspaper supplements, catalogues, specialty printing and direct mail, books, digital premedia services, logistics, directories • Largest printer of magazines in the world: over 1,000 titles, 2 billion copies per year • International sales force North America $ 8,195 36,000 Over 125 plants: • Magazines: 46% of the top 125 titles in North America • Canada • Catalogues: 27 million per day • United States • Books: one billion per year • Directories: 180 million per year • 15 Que-Net Media™ business centres • Logistics Services specialized in the distribution of printed materials; largest shipper into the U.S. postal system Europe $ 1,322 5,800 27 plants • The largest rotogravure network in Europe • Austria • Electronic B2B procurement centre for raw • Finland materials (paper, ink) in Fribourg, Switzerland • France • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • United Kingdom Latin America $ 166 1,300 7 plants: • One of the largest printers in Latin America • Argentina • Strategic alliances with leading printers • Brazil and publishers: Listel Listas Telefonicas, Editora Abril, Gráfica • Chile Melhoramentos, Gráfica Monte Alban, Editorial Antártica • Colombia • Mexico • Peru Quebecor makes a public takeover bid Acquisition of Groupe for Groupe Vidéotron Vidéotron closes Mindready Solutions listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange July August September October November December 10-year contract with Editora Abril S.A. in US$142 million contract with Brazil and construction of new printing plant Listel Listas Telefonicas S.A. in Brazil to print directories TQS network put up for sale canoe.fr launched in France Quebecor Inc. 3 Message to Shareholders Quebecor has marshalled its forces around two operational poles: Quebecor World and Quebecor Media uebecor made impressive progress in the year Net income from continued operations 2000. The highlight of the year was the (before amortization of goodwill and effect of non- Qtakeover of Groupe Vidéotron ltée in October, recurring items) increased by nearly 12% to the Company’s largest media acquisition to date. $203.1 million or $3.14 per share in 2000, com- The transaction will have a decisive impact on pared with $181.9 million or $2.80 per share in 1999. Quebecor’s development. It equips us to begin devel- Three non-recurring items had an impact on net oping one of the most powerful platforms for income: 1) a $246 million gain derived primarily media convergence in Canada, which will provide from the sale of Donohue to Abitibi-Consolidated a springboard for international expansion going Inc. in the second quarter; 2) non-recurring charges forward. We will build on this foundation to totalling $100.4 million, including write-offs of strengthen the positioning of our products and goodwill; and 3) $802 million gains on dilution generate additional revenues by distributing our