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Astron Selected to Provide Print and Mail, Scanning, Fulfillment and Other Services CHICAGO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NYSE:RRD) today announced that UK-based Astron, an RR Donnelley company and leading Document Business Process Outsourcing (DBPO) provider, has been awarded a seven-year $465 million outsourcing agreement by ING. Astron is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RR Donnelley. ING, a leading global financial institution that provides banking, insurance and asset management services to over 60 million private, corporate and institutional clients, has selected Astron to provide a range of document related services including print and mail, scanning, fulfillment, application development and others. The agreement expands Astron's European platform and enhances its ability to serve customers' pan-European DBPO needs. Sjaak de Graaf, COO ING Retail Banking said, "Astron's broad capabilities, depth of experience in processing banking and insurance documents and ability to implement a program of this complexity and magnitude made them an effective choice for this important initiative." Bob Nelson, President of Astron stated, "We are delighted to be given the opportunity to help ING achieve its objectives and welcome the ING employees who will become a part of Astron. This groundbreaking agreement accelerates our ability to serve the comprehensive needs of customers throughout Europe and demonstrates the value of our focus on delivering measurable results across a spectrum of document based business process outsourcing requirements." About RR Donnelley RR Donnelley (NYSE:RRD) is the world's premier full-service provider of print and related services, including business process outsourcing. Founded more than 140 years ago, the company provides solutions in commercial printing, direct mail, financial printing, print fulfillment, labels, forms, logistics, call centers, transactional print-and-mail, print management, online services, digital photography, color services, and content and database management to customers in the publishing, healthcare, advertising, retail, technology, financial services and many other industries. The largest companies in the world and others rely on RR Donnelley's scale, scope and insight through a comprehensive range of online tools, variable printing services and market-specific solutions. For more information, visit the company's web site at http://www.rrdonnelley.com/ . Use of Forward-Looking Statements This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and any such forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the following cautionary statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this news release and are based on current expectations and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Readers are strongly encouraged to read the full cautionary statements contained in RR Donnelley's filings with the SEC. RR Donnelley disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company CONTACT: Media Contacts, Doug Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President Marketing & Communications, +1-630-322-6830, or , or Investor Contact, Dan Leib, Senior Vice President - Finance, +1-312-326-7710, or , both of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Web site: http://www.rrdonnelley.com/

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