Quark (company)

Quark Software, Inc.

Logo since 2023
Company type	Private
Industry	Computer software
Founded	1981; 43 years ago (1981) in Denver, Colorado, United States
Founder	Tim Gill Mark Pope
Headquarters	Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Martin Owen (CEO)
Products	Enterprise content lifecycle management with Quark Publishing Platform NextGen, graphic design & desktop publishing with QuarkXPress, sales enablement & content intelligence with Quark Docurated
Services	SaaS
Owner	Parallax Capital Partners
Website	www.quark.com

Quark Software Inc. (founded 1981 in Denver, Colorado, USA) is a privately owned software company which specializes in an integrated, single vendor solution for managing the entire content lifecycle, from content strategy and creation, through collaboration and publishing, to consumption and analysis. It offers low-code / no-code XML-based structured content authoring in Microsoft Word or a Web browser, component content storage and assembly via CCMS (Component Content Management System), and content intelligence based on AI and production, consumption and workflow analytics. It enables content reuse and is used for content automation in translation and localization workflows with its flexible content models and design templates.

The company is best known for its desktop page layout and design software, QuarkXPress, although this has now become secondary to its other products and services.^[1]