TC Transcontinental - François Olivier

TC Transcontinental creates marketing products and services that allow businesses to attract, reach and retain their target customers. The Corporation is the largest printer in Canada and the fourth-largest in North America. As the leading publisher of consumer magazines and French-language educational resources, and of community newspapers in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, it is also one of Canada's top media groups.
TC Transcontinental is also the leading door-to-door distributor of advertising material in Canada through its celebrated Publisac network in Quebec and Targeo in the rest of Canada. Thanks to a wide digital network of more than 1,000 websites, the company reaches over 13 million unique visitors per month in Canada. TC Transcontinental also offers interactive marketing products and services that use new communication platforms supported by marketing strategy and planning services, database analytics, premedia, e-flyers, email marketing, custom communications and mobile solutions.

TC Transcontinental (TSX: TCL.A, TCL.B, TCL.PR.D) has approximately 10,000 employees in Canada and in the United States, and reported revenues of C$2.0 billion in 2011. For more information about the Corporation, please visit www.tc.tc

François Olivier became President and Chief Executive Officer of Transcontinental on February 20, 2008, after demonstrating leadership and vision as Chief Operating Officer of the three sectors of the Corporation. This prior position in his career as senior executive of the Corporation enabled him to grasp the potential of each sector and to envision a most effective synergy that has proven to be highly productive for Transcontinental, ensuring it many avenues of development for years to come.

Since joining the Corporation in 1993, François Olivier has risen through the ranks by delivering results that exceeded the expectations of both senior managers and employees. From 2005 to 2007, he was president of the Printing Products and Services Sector. Mr. Olivier has been a member of Transcontinental’s Executive Management Committee since 2005.

François Olivier is the acknowledged architect of Transcontinental’s breakthrough into newspaper printing, first in Canada and then in North America. He also headed several projects to implement new print technologies involving a total investment of more than $700 million from 2007 to 2010. These initiatives resulted in a modernized print network, the construction of an ultramodern printing plant in California and the creation of the Canada-wide hybrid flyer and newspaper printing platform that was fully operational by late 2010. He was also behind the creation of the new Interactive Sector, the umbrella for the Corporation’s digital and customized marketing solutions. Under his leadership as president and CEO, Transcontinental’s digital revenues have more than doubled, from $78 million in 2008 to more than $183 million in 2010.

A determined businessman, François Olivier is a member of the new generation of managers who focus on innovation, teamwork and customer satisfaction. Growth and performance are central to his management philosophy. It is his belief that the corporate culture is key to Transcontinental’s growth.

François Olivier has a B.Sc from McGill University and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.