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The SNPA Buyers Guide highlights services and equipment offered by SNPA associate members.

           

Advertising

Audit Services

Broker

Circulation

Consulting

Employee Benefits

Facility Design

Finance

Ink

Insurance

Internet

Legal

News/Editorial

Newsprint

Packaging/Distribution

Prepress

Press Equipment

Pressroom

Printing

Purchasing

Software Systems

Video Production


Alphabetical listing of associate member companies

AbitibiBowater
AdMall/Sales Development
Ad Pay
Anderson, Randles & Associates
Associated Press

Athlon Media
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Belden Interactive
Benefit Development Group
Borrell Associates
Brainworks
Broadwater & Associates
Bussian Law Firm
Central Ink Corporation
Certified Audit of Circulations
CNN Newsource Sales
ComPlan Associates
Content That Works
Cratos Capital Partners
Cribb, Greene & Associates

Dario Designs
Dirks, Van Essen & Murray
Editor & Publisher
EDIWISE

Fisher & Phillips
GoCreate
Goss International Corporation
Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp.
K&M Newspaper Services
KBA North America
Kruger
LEARNing More Circulation Idea Service
MacDermid Printing Solutions
Metro Newspaper Advertising Services
MORI Research

Motivation Communications Associates
Muller Martini Mailroom Systems
Mutual Insurance Company
New Age Media Systems

NRS Media

Online News Network
OurVarsity.com

PAGE Cooperative
Parade Publications
Promoxie Digital Media
RTTNews
SAXOTECH
Schur Packaging Systems
Second Street Media Solutions
Southern Lithoplate
TKS (USA)
TownNews.com
TV Media Inc.
US Ink
USA WEEKEND
W.B. Grimes & Company
Walls Media
WaltonPress
WRH Marketing Americas


For information about the Buyers Guide or adding video to your listing, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office.
There is no cost to add your company logo or a three-minute video to your company listing.


 
ADVERTISING
 
Ad Pay, Inc.
Provides online classified advertising solutions for media companies and affinity websites. Through its patented online classified solution and the AdPay Classified Network™, AdPay provides the competitive edge media companies need to attract and retain users and transform their websites into vibrant online marketplaces.

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John Barry, president of Brainworks Software, speaks about his company, his products and the newspaper industry.

Brainworks
Manages all newspaper advertising: display, classified and preprints, as well as billing, accounts receivable, contracts, layout, pagination, marketing, sales force automation and web/palm integration.

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GoCreate
GoCreate, which will launch in August 2010, is being created to resolve the ongoing problem of producting creative, high-quality ads for print and online, which are focused on the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses globally. Users of GoCreate's application simply search across speculative display advertising classified across hundreds of business types, finding ready-made ads complete with copy and high-quality photography.

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Metro Newspaper Advertising Services, Inc.
Newspaper planning and buying agency handles planning, placement, material traffic follow-up, billing and payment.

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NRS Media
Creates innovative ways to help media companies make more money. Using a true partnership model, we combine our extensive international media sales experience with a proven flair for commercial innovation to analyse the areas we can help you improve. We then provide revenue-generating solutions to overcome any issues uncovered.

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AUDIT SERVICES
 
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Maintains the world’s foremost electronic database of audited-circulation information, a growing array of verified readership/subscriber demographics and online activity data, and offers reports and services in multiple formats, including print, spreadsheet, CD-ROM and online.

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Certified Audit of Circulations
Not-for-profit circulation audit and research organization serving publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies.

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BROKER
 
Broadwater & Associates LLC
Independent investment banking firm serving the media, communications and information industries.

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Cribb, Greene & Associates

Specializes in the sale of daily newspapers and large weeklies and weekly groups. Client base is primarily family-owned newspaper companies.

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Dirks, Van Essen & Murray

Assists companies in the sale and acquisition of daily newspapers and weekly groups, and in appraising newspapers for a variety of purposes.

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W.B. Grimes & Company
Investment banking firm to the media industry specializing in valuations, acquisitions and divestitures of media properties

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CIRCULATION
 
John Barry, president of Brainworks Software, speaks about his company, his products and the newspaper industry.

Brainworks
CircSmart™ provides extensive analysis and circulation management of all aspects of your product distribution. The software manages subscribers' accounts overseeing payments, expiration dates, stops, starts, vacations and pre-authorized or debit procedures to the amount of earned and unearned income related to a subscription.  CircSmart™ is a complete subscriber sales system along with a sophisticated subscriber service center.

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LEARNing More Circulation Idea Service
Provides a monthly circulation idea magazine to newspapers. 

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CONSULTING
 
AdMall/Sales Development Services
Provides consultative sales and marketing intelligence to media salespeople through cost-efficient Web-based tools and training.

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Anderson, Randles & Associates
Supports the sales, marketing and distribution needs of newspapers through consultation, research, recruiting and training, and helps newspapers improve their efficiency of operation, market reach and profitability.

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Belden Interactive
Research and consulting to local news and information providers for Online, TV, print, radio and magazines. BI provides a full suite of services for research and expert consulting in news enterprise and niche product efforts.

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Borrell Associates

Borrell Associates is a research and consulting firm that tracks local advertising and helps media companies develop executive strategies. View our video above to hear more about Borrell Associates and our products and services.

Tracks local advertising and helps online companies develop executive strategies. Focus is on interactive advertising and marketing, and primary strength is fact-based analysis. Produces industry-related reports, offers revenue benchmarking for local Web sites, gives presentations to companies and trade associations, and provides consulting services.

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ComPlan Associates
Offers consulting services that address management, infrastructure and operational issues.

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MORI Research Inc.
Research and consulting company serves the newspaper industry, addressing editorial, advertising, circulation and Web-related topics.

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Motivation Communications Associates
Human relations consulting and training firm. Jules Ciotta, president, is an organizational psychologist and has conducted training and provided consulting in motivation and communication with emphasis on management skills, team building, human relations and quality.

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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
  Benefit Development Group, Inc.
  Guides employers through the maze of benefit choices, regulations and administrative challenges. Focus is on solving healthcare-related issues that directly impact benefit programs – not just delivering insurance products.  Has extensive experience working with newspaper groups.
 

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FACILITY DESIGN
  Dario Designs Inc.
  Specializes strictly in the design of newspaper and printing facilities, and offers a wide variety of consulting services.
 

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FINANCE
 
Cratos Capital Partners, LLC
Provides senior secured debt to companies within the media industry

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INK
 
Central Ink Corporation
Central Ink’s CentraNews inks are the result of the latest technology in equipment, processing and raw material design.

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US Ink
The industry’s only 100% news ink company leads in the introduction of quality, innovative, high-performance products for the newspaper industry.

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INSURANCE
 
Mutual Insurance Company, Ltd.
Formed by the newspaper industry for the newspaper industry to provide libel and publishers liability coverage for print, broadcast and electronic media.

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INTERNET
 
Online News Network, LLC
Assists newspapers with URL creation and distribution strategies.

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Second Street Media Solutions
Partners with media companies and other organizations to convert site visits into revenues and build brand equity among target audiences.

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TownNews.com
Helps more than 1,600 daily and weekly newspapers publish interactive online editions.

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Walls Media
Creative design, communications and Web development. Specializes in turnkey solutions that allow newspapers to publish online. Ad agency and graphic design studio.

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LEGAL
 
The Bussian Law Firm, PLLC
Law practice devoted exclusively to representing the media, nationwide, in First Amendment matters.

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Fisher & Phillips LLP
Represents employers nationally in labor and employment matters.

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NEWS / EDITORIAL
 
The Associated Press
The largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for more than one billion people a day.

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Athlon Media
Athlon Media will launch Athlon Sports, a newspaper-distributed sports magazine, this fall. Expected launch date is October 2010.

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CNN Newsource Sales

CNN Newsource, comprised of approximately 800 affiliates including TV stations and local/regional cable news channels throughout North America, is the most widely distributed syndicated news service.

Through continuous digital media distribution and five digital satellite channels, CNN Newsource provides partners with the news content necessary to produce competitive newscasts. This includes: CNN Worldwide’s global newsgathering resources; the collective coverage power of CNN Newsource affiliates; customized live coverage of breaking news from CNN correspondents and localized CNN Money Matters reports live from the NYSE. Additionally, CNN Newsource stations benefit from CNN Newsbeam, which provides satellite time and fiber connectivity from CNN's vast global resources at lower than market rates. 

CNN Newsource also helps prepare tomorrow’s journalists by providing service at no charge to colleges and universities through its Newsource in the Classroom program. 

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Content That Works

Helps local media and local businesses thrive by creating high-quality editorial products that attract readers, exceed advertisers’ expectations and put more money in your pocket.

CTW's original videos, magazines, online presentations and feeds, broadsheet pages, columns and custom projects in a dozen niche content areas can help your hard-working sales staff sell more, more easily, than ever before.

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Editor & Publisher
Covers the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates.

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OurVarsity.com
Provides a hosted solution for high school and youth sports content, surrounding that content with user-generated content, social networking capabilities and unique advertising opportunities.

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Parade Publications
Sunday magazine, founded in 1941, distributed by 350-plus newspapers, with a circulation of 35,400,000 and a readership of 77,911,000.

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Publishing Group of America
Publisher of American Profile and Relish magazines.

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RTTNews
Offers financial news content, along with audio and video casts for Web site use.

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TV Media, Inc.
Offers customized solutions for newspapers' TV supplements. An assortment of weekly television features also are available to add pizzazz to your TV supplement.

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USA WEEKEND
Newsy weekend magazine in 600 newspapers with 48.5 million readers, with articles, additional interviews, puzzles, contests and other features online.

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NEWSPRINT
 
AbitibiBowater Inc.
A leading producer of newsprint, coated groundwood papers, uncoated groundwood papers, bleached kraft pulp and lumber products, and the world’s largest recycler of newspapers and magazines.

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EDIWISE
Provides paper inventory management products and services for the publishing and printing industries, including AbiNet™ASP, a paper roll usage tracking service.

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Kruger Inc.
Manufactures and sells newsprint, specialty grades, lightweight coated paper, directory paper, tissue, recycled linerboard, corrugated containers, lumber and wood products.

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PACKAGING / DISTRIBUTION
 
Goss International Corporation
Web offset press equipment, enhancements, service, and parts (including remanufactured plate and blanket cylinders) for newspaper, commercial and special purpose applications.

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K&M Newspaper Services
Provider of automated newspaper inserting systems, PC inserter control systems, replacement parts and technical support. Specializes in rotary inserting system.

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Muller Martini Mailroom Systems, Inc.
Muller Martini's ProLiner Inserting System with CoLiner Precollection System is configured for the individual demands of newspaper companies of every size.

Integrated inserting solutions, high-speed inserters, press conveyors, mailroom auxiliary equipment and production system software.

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Schur Packaging Systems, Inc.

This video offers a good look at Schur's bundle-handling systems.

A full-line supplier of packaging equipment, including: press gripper, roll storage, inserters, collators, stackers, bottom wrappers, bundle conveyors, palletizers, dock distribution systems, control systems and more.

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WRH Marketing Americas

Services range from supply/installation of simple gripper conveyors to more complex solutions: conveyor and bundling functions, integrated systems for storing, inserting, collating, stitching, cutting, stacking, packaging and distribution.

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PREPRESS
 
MacDermid Printing Solutions
Newspaper Plates group, a leader in thin relief photopolymer printing plates and platemaking equipment, and MacDermid’s Newspaper Blankets group deliver industry-leading technologies for printing – flexo and offset.

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Southern Lithoplate, Inc.
High-quality, high-value Lithoplates in both analog and digital CTP formats, along with associated chemistry and processing systems.

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PRESS EQUIPMENT
 
KBA North America, Inc.
A complete line of narrow web and wide web press technology.

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TKS (USA), Inc.
Full-line manufacturer of printing equipment, including ColorTop line of shaftless presses.

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PRESSROOM
 
Goss International Corporation
Web offset press equipment, enhancements, service, and parts (including remanufactured plate and blanket cylinders) for newspaper, commercial and special purpose applications.

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Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp.
Inland specializes in selling and brokering pre-owned newspaper presses and offers press appraisal and consulting services. In addition, Inland has partnered with Morrison & Head to provide newspapers the best source for reducing property tax assessments on production equipment.

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PRINTING
  Walton Press
  Offers coldset printing services, including broadsheet inserts, magazines, tabloids and other specialty publication projects.
 

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PURCHASING
 
PAGE Cooperative
Purchasing cooperative for privately-owned newspapers and newspaper groups.

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SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
 
New Age Media Systems, Inc.
Specializes in providing data access tools to the media, market research and advertising industries. Software generates crosstabs and reach and frequency estimates on all syndicated and/or proprietary survey data.

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SAXOTECH
Develops content management systems for the media industry.

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VIDEO PRODUCTION
  Promoxie Digital Media
  Provides custom video news for your website. Our solutions use state of the art technology at an affordable price. Are you looking for an edge for your website to grab the attention of your audience? You've come the right place! See a sample of a video we can produce for you, no matter where you are located in the world at www.promoxie.com.
 

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For information about the Buyers Guide, to add your company logo or a
three-minute video, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office.
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