Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 8, 2019

Quad/Graphics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Wisconsin		001-34806		39-1152983
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

N61 W23044 Harry’s Way, Sussex, Wisconsin 53089-3995

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

[phone]

(Registrant’s telephone number)

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Item 5.02 .	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers .

(e) On March 8, 2019, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of Quad/Graphics, Inc. (the “Company”) approved a two-year incentive compensation program relating to 2018-2019 (the “2018-2019 Incentive Program”) under which designated participants, including the Company’s named executive officers, will receive an initial payment in March 2019 and be eligible for a second payment in early 2020. The March 2019 payments are in recognition of the participants’ corporate development, integration planning and integration efforts in 2018. The 2020 payments will be contingent on the participants’ continued employment and satisfactory corporate development, integration planning and integration efforts in 2019. The 2020 payments will be offset by any amounts earned under the Company’s 2019 annual incentive plan, and the 2019 payments are in lieu of any payments under the Company’s 2018 annual incentive plan, with respect to which the threshold performance goal was not achieved. Pursuant to the 2018-2019 Incentive Program, the amount payable to each individual named executive officer in March 2019, as well as the amount payable to each individual named executive officer in early 2020 if the service and performance requirements are met, is expected to range from $70,000 to $850,000.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date:	March 14, 2019
		QUAD/GRAPHICS, INC.
		By:	/s/ Jennifer J. Kent
			Jennifer J. Kent
			Executive Vice President of Administration, General Counsel and Secretary

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