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At 10.2 percent, the national unemployment rate is at a 26-year high, The New York Times points out. At least Quark Incorporated, founded by Denver businessman, philanthropist, and political activist Tim Gill in the early 1980s, seems unaffected.
The company, which created perhaps the most popular computer software for laying out newspapers and magazines long before Adobe ended the era of paste-up design, could add as many as 500 jobs to Denver in the next three to five years, according to the Denver Business Journal.
Quark is launching Quark Promote, which could become its “most profitable line of business yet,” the company says. The new development aims to help small businesses and individuals create marketing materials, according to The Denver Post, noting the company will release more details on November 19. Earlier this year, Quark had roughly 135 employees.
Posted 11/6/2009 at 3:00 pm by Michael de Yoanna
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only a few years ago Quark outsourced a large number of software development jobs from Denver to India
Yeah RIGHT! Ebrahimi took over and dumped all of R&D and Tech Support over to India between 2001-2002. InDesign has pretty much squashed this company into oblivion or non-relevance. I like how they feature Tim McGill’s picture even though he sold his shares to Ebrahimi in 2000. This company has been on a downward spiral ever since, and guaranteed that if any new jobs are produced by this company they will be eliminated just as quickly.
I have a couple friends that were just let go from quark within the last year. The remaining friends left are bombarded with work and there is no chance of them hiring any time soon.
If there were 135 employees earlier this year it’s probably more like 80 now.