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- Transcontinental Inc. Transcontinental Inc. (TSX: TCL.A TCL.B), founded in 1976 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, operates as a leader in flexible packaging across North America and Latin America, Canada's largest printer, and a provider of retail marketing services and French-language educational publishing. The company conducts business through three main segments: Packaging, which specializes in extrusion, lamination, flexographic printing, and converting to produce flexible plastic solutions including rollstock, labels, die-cut lids, shrink films, bags, pouches, and advanced coatings for markets such as dairy, coffee, meat and poultry, pet food, agriculture, beverages, home and personal care, industrial, consumer, and medical; Retail Services and Printing, offering integrated solutions like flyer printing, digital flyers, retail analytics, in-store marketing products, newspapers, magazines, four-color books, and personalized mass marketing; and Media, focused on printing and digital publishing of educational, supplemental, and specialized professional publications in French and English. Geographically, Transcontinental Inc. maintains operations in Canada, the United States, Latin America including Guatemala, Ecuador, and Colombia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, serving diverse retailers, brands, and industries with a family-controlled structure emphasizing long-term growth, sustainability, and dividend increases. Recent strategic developments include the acquisition of Middleton Group in June 2025 to expand in-store marketing capabilities with point-of-purchase display solutions; the purchase of Canva Group businesses Mirazed Inc. and Intergraphics Decal Limited in August 2025, further strengthening its Canada-wide in-store marketing network that generated over $200 million in fiscal 2024 revenues; the sale of its industrial packaging operations to Hood Packaging Corporation; plant closures at Saint-Hyacinthe and Tomah, Wisconsin, for operational optimization; executive leadership changes with Thomas Morin as President and CEO since 2023; and the termination of a share monetization agreement with Capinabel involving 3,950,000 Class B shares.