Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for our call. We'd like to welcome all our DCM shareholders as well as any RRD Canada employees that may be listening in today. Speaking on the call this morning will be Richard Kellam, our President and CEO, and myself, James Lorimer, CFO. We'd like to remind everyone that Richard and I can be available after the call for any follow-up questions that you may have. Before we begin, I'll remind everyone that we will be referring to forward-looking information on today's call. This information is subject to certain risks and uncertainties as outlined in the forward-looking information disclosure in our press releases that we issued last night and more fully in our public disclosure filings on SEDAR.
We will be adding a brief video from Richard along with a summary of our press releases from last night on our website following the call. Our detailed information will ultimately be published on our website as well. You can also follow us on LinkedIn for some additional color and information on our recent press releases. With that, I'd like to introduce Richard Kellam, our President and CEO.
Thank you, James Lorimer, and good morning, good afternoon, good evening to anybody that's dialing in from another time zone. Here's what we want to accomplish on our call today. First, we wanna have a quick look at our preliminary 2022 results. We did a press release last night, so we're gonna be a little quicker for those. Then we wanna dive a little deeper on the announcement we made last evening of the acquisition of RRD Canada. Talk about some of the transaction highlights, have a quick look at RRD Canada, some of the benefits of the transaction, and then talk about how we're gonna be better together. That's what we wanna achieve on the call today, so thank you for joining us. Starting off with DCM full year 2022 preliminary results.
You've heard me say this many times, we've got great momentum in our business, and as we like to say, momentum builds momentum, and we're certainly seeing that in our performance. Before I get into the results here and unpack some of the details, I just wanna thank the entire DCM team. Without the team that we've got here at DCM, there's no way we could be delivering the results we're delivering. Congratulations and thank you to the entire team. We had a very solid year on revenue and revenue acceleration. Our range is between CAD 270 million and CAD 274 million. That would lead to a 15%-16.5% growth versus 2021.
One of the best growth years that we've delivered on record here at DCM. We're very proud of the revenue acceleration and the value we're bringing to clients in the marketplace. Our gross profit also improved despite some of the raw material headwinds we experienced in the marketplace, a range between 30.5%-31%, and that's an improvement in overall gross profit between 20%-21%. You know, one thing we always like to see is gross profit growing faster than revenue, and we've seen that there. Revenue 15%-16.5% and gross profit 20%-21% growth versus last year. Again, team's done a fantastic job to make sure we're continuing to deliver high value to our clients, and we're recouping that value for the value we bring. Another important metric is SG&A.
We talk a lot about delivering a better business. Our range in SG&A is between 21%-21.5% of revenue. That's a full 2.8%-3.3% percentage points versus last year. Very good, a very good momentum, doing more with less and driving productivity and really working hard on our zero overhead growth momentum. Very happy with the team and the results that we're delivering there. Solid revenue, great gross profit, and continuing to build a better business on the SG&A side. From an EBITDA perspective, our EBITDA range between CAD 35.5 million and CAD 36.5 million. That's a full 41%-45% increase over 2021.
Fantastic, you know, fantastic results in EBITDA, obviously driven from that solid revenue, that solid gross margin, and that improvement in SG&A. Also really happy to report that our debt is down over 35% versus last year. We delivered on our commitment. At the beginning of the year, we said we will have no restructuring expenses, and we delivered on 0 restructuring, which obviously means that our net income will be solid. We'll report that in March, versus a CAD 9.7 million restructuring charge last year. All metrics, revenue metrics, margin metrics, operating metrics are very, very positive in 2022 versus where we were a year ago.
We've been focusing on obviously building both a better and a bigger business, and I trust these results show our and demonstrate our capabilities to do both at the same time. We'll give you a lot more details obviously on the 21st of March once we get our final audit complete, and we'll give you more details on the final quarter and the year, but those are the preliminary results. Again, we're very proud of the momentum that the entire team is delivering here. Now I wanna move to the second part of the agenda, which is the acquisition we announced last night of RRD Canada. Here are some of the transaction highlights. We've entered into a definitive agreement for a share purchase of the Canadian operations of RRD Canada.
Our total purchase price is CAD 123 million, that's obviously subject to working capital and other customary post-closing adjustments. I'll come back to reference that CAD 223 million in a minute. RRD Canada, I'll give a little bit more detail on them in a minute, but they've got total revenues of approximately CAD 250 million in 2022. We expect to close the transaction sometime in Q2 of this year, this transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, including under the Canada's Competition Act. We will be filing our with the Competition Bureau today. From a financing perspective, 100% of the financing is fully committed through facilities from a Canadian chartered bank and Fiera Private Debt.
We're funding this with a 100%, a 100% facility. This is where I wanna come back to on that purchase price of CAD 123 million. Our, our lending includes a CAD 30 million bridge facility related to three owned properties that are being acquired. Part of the CAD 123 million is a CAD 30 million, a CAD 30 million tranche, if you will, for real estate. We, we certainly, plan to, to sell and lease back that real estate. In fact, we already have interest in those properties right now. That will take our leverage from 3.25 down to 2.65, following that intended sale and lease back. We're very pleased with how we've architected the financing of this deal, and we appreciate the partners, our lending partners here.
A quick look at RRD Canada. They provide print and related services to over 1,000 customers across Canada. They've got very deep roots in Canada. They started off as Moore Business Forms back in 1882. I'll show you a map of RRD's presence in a minute. They serve key verticals from financial institutions, retail, insurance, transportation, government, and other regulated industries. A lot of diversification in the client base, sort of similar to DCM, the diversification we have. Client base and verticals, and certainly highly complementary to the operating model that we have here at DCM. What we say, sort of a perfect fit. Some of the benefits of the transaction, it obviously combines two companies with complementary operating models, best-in-class products, strong and very strong customer relationships.
It's also very complementary to some of the digital-first technology capabilities we built here at DCM and the opportunity to expand those into RRD's clients. There's really meaningful benefits for our clients and for our customers being bigger and better together, and obviously attractive financial benefits and value creation opportunities for DCM. Now, a quick look at a quick look at DCM and RRD Canada together. As I said earlier, the DCM revenues are just north of CAD 270 million. RRD is about CAD 250 million. Combined revenue as a start from day one will be just north of CAD 520 million in revenue. At DCM, we have 280 enterprise clients.
RRD has 250 enterprise clients, and we deliver a lot of value to those enterprise, highly complex clients across Canada. DCM has got 11 locations and 10 locations at Donnelly. You know, our business is well north of 900 employees here and about 1,000 employees across. You know, lots of opportunities here to be better together over time. You can see the numbers on the far right-hand of the right-hand of the slide, north of CAD 500 million in revenues together. Over 400 enterprise clients, just around 21 locations, and just under 2,000 employees.
I'm gonna spend a lot of time for anybody that's looking at the video here, but people on audio, I'm looking at a map of Canada that has the footprint for DCM and for RRD. You can see that we've got great coverage as a combined entity across Canada to be able to meet those all clients and including those kind of highly those high enterprise clients across Canada. Very good kind of footprint to meet the needs of the Canadian marketplace. Now, I just want to I wanna talk about just for a minute here, you know, what we're really excited about on this deal is the market is still a very sizable market in Canada. There are significant opportunities for future growth being a combined entity.
The marketing and advertising services market in Canada is an over CAD 68 billion market. The marketing and print media market and marketing technology market is an over CAD 22 billion market. If we zoom a little narrower to where, you know, to some of the work that we do here at DCM and Donnelly, that's a CAD 19 billion market in print. You know, zooming a little further, just the, you know, print market alone is around a CAD 10 billion market. There's a sizable market here in Canada for us to play into and we're confident that we can do that better together and continue to drive accelerated growth.
Some of the, you know, some of the rationale for doing the deal is the proven track record that we've built here at DCM. You know, you saw the numbers earlier. Our revenue growth between 15% and 16% this year, and we've got very strong industry momentum. We've got relentless focus on providing enhanced value to our clients, and our clients have really, you know, love working with us, and they see the value that we create for them. We've got strong operational focus at DCM. Our gross margins have improved from the low twenties in 2015 to numbers I showed you today, north of 30% in 2022. These results reflect priority of driving operational efficiencies and also delivering really good value to our clients.
We also have a very deep leadership bench here at DCM. We've got extensive experience in print and marketing and communications and digital, and we've got experience in doing M&A transactions, large and small. Personally, I've been responsible for several, you know, 5 or 6 very large transactions in my prior role. We have a great experience in M&A, both as a leadership team as well as an entire company. We've also proven that we can reduce debt quickly. We've got great cash flows from our business. You know, you saw on the slide earlier that in 2022 versus 2021, we reduced that by 35%. Actually, in the last 2 years or 3 years, we reduced it by 65%.
We remain committed to targeting a less than 1% debt to EBITDA. Again, with the cash flows we deliver, that's certainly a very achievable objective. Again, we've proven that over the last few years. From an acquisition perspective, as I said earlier, we've done 5 deals very successfully here at DCM that we've integrated over the last 10 years, and that's certainly created value for our business. We'll be partnering with Boston Consulting Group. We actually work with Boston Consulting Group. I'm sure, you know, most listeners on the call understand that they're kind of best in class and world-class in merger integration and due diligence.
Boston Consulting Group helped us through the entire due diligence process and will help us through the post-merger integration process as well, the pre and post-merger integration process. I personally have a lot of experience working with Boston Consulting Group and the team that we're working with is a team that I've worked with several times in the past. We're very comfortable that we will deliver the targets that we've set out to deliver. Okay? Certainly a proven track record. We are very excited about this acquisition and about the announcement we made last night, and we strongly believe that we will build a better and bigger business together. Now I'm just gonna... Hold on a second. I just wanna read this closing statement.
You know, thank you for joining our call this morning. Over the next several weeks, our focus will remain on running DCM as a separate and competing business, really important to understand, while the Competition Bureau reviews this acquisition. Right? We've got a process we've gotta go through with the Competition Bureau. We will remain separate companies as that Competition Bureau reviews the filing. We expect the transaction to close during the second quarter and then to begin our merger integration planning thereafter. As this work proceeds, we'll be in a better position to provide guidance on our expectation for the combined company.
We also look forward, obviously, to speaking to all of our shareholders on March 21st, following the release of our full year financial results, and we'll give you a little bit more color on the progress we're making through the Competition Bureau and what our plans are moving forward. Thank you for attending our call today. As I said, we're super excited as a team here at DCM, and hopefully our lead team over at Donnelley's is excited as well about building a better and a bigger business together. Thank you.