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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


Alphabetical listing of associate member companies

AbitibiBowater
Adicio
AdMall/Sales Development
AECOM
Anderson, Randles & Associates
Associated Press

Audit Bureau of Circulations
Belden Interactive
Benefit Development Group
Borrell Associates
Brainworks
Broadwater & Associates
Bussian Law Firm
Central Ink Corporation
Certified Audit of Circulations
ComPlan Associates
Cratos Capital Partners
Cribb, Greene & Associates
Dario Designs
DeNardo Consulting Group
Digital Technology International
Dirks, Van Essen & Murray
DYC Supply Company
Dynaric
Editor & Publisher

EDIWISE
FASTechGroup
Fisher & Phillips
Flint Group
GE Commercial Finance
Goss International Corporation
Impression Inks
Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp.
K&M Newspaper Services
KBA North America
Kodak
Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging USA

Kruger
LEARNing More Circulation Idea Service
MacDermid Printing Solutions
manroland AG
MEGTEC Systems
Metro Newspaper Advertising Services
MORI Research
Muller Martini Mailroom Systems
Mutual Insurance Company
New Age Media Systems
Obitmax
Online News Network
OurVarsity.com

PAGE Cooperative
Parade Publications
PDI Plastics
Print2Finish
Print2Web
Publication Services of America
Reader Rewards Card
RTTNews

SAXOTECH
Schur Packaging Systems
Second Street Media Solutions
Southern Lithoplate
TKS (USA)
TownNews.com
Travidia
TSA & Company
TV Media Inc.
US Ink
USA WEEKEND
Vertis Communications
W.B. Grimes & Company
Walls Media
WaltonPress
White Birch Paper Company
WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG
WRH Marketing Americas
Zinser Law Firm


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ADVERTISING
 
Adicio, Inc.
Specializes in private-label online classified advertising solutions for careers, automotive and real estate markets, which serve the Internet’s leading media companies and Web portals.

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

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Vision Data
Vision Total Advertising is a fully-integrated software system that combines classified and display advertising sales, billing, sales management and marketing in a single common relational database. Also: E-tearsheet management and remote ad order entry.

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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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Reader Rewards Card – RonDino Promotions, Inc.
Offers reusable laminated discount cards and online loyalty sites to be used as a premium for new starts; retention and easy-pay programs; NIE fundraising and teacher/sponsor appreciation and carrier appreciation.

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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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DeNardo Consulting Group
Offers consulting services, including projects in advertising, production, circulation, administration,“process re-engineering” and strategic reviews

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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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TSA & Company
Specializes exclusively in the newspaper industry. TSA consulting services focus primarily on strategic planning, organizational development and culture change.

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Vertis Communications, Inc.
Consumer research, audience targeting, creative services, workflow management, targeted ad inserts, direct mail, interactive marketing, packaging solutions and digital one-to-one marketing and fulfillment.

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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
  AECOM
  Offers a single source of expertise for facility and operational needs. Austin AECOM provides consulting, planning, architecture, engineering, design-build and contribution management services.
 

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  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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GE Commercial Finance –
Media, Communications & Entertainment

Offers products and services to meet a variety of financing needs and supports acquisitions, refinances and recapitalizations – with expertise in publishing.

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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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Flint Group
Offers a comprehensive range of sheetfed and web offset, flexographic, gravure, UV/EB curable, and digital printing inks to customers around the globe.

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Impression Inks, Ltd.
Offers heatset, open fountain and metro injector inks for the web offset printing market.

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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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Print2Web L.L.C.
Works with newspapers to develop profit-making solutions to put newspaper printed ads and sections online.

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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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Travidia, Inc.

Offers sophisticated marketing tools for the online advertising segment of newspaper Web sites. Creates revenue opportunities by combining ROP, special sections, classified liners, pre-prints and directory service into one online marketplace.

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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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The Zinser Law Firm

Actively represents daily newspapers in labor and employment law issues.

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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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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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Publication Services of America
Creates non-traditional revenue streams for its newspaper partners by publishing custom, localized, full-color, glossy niche magazines syndicated through newspapers across the U.S. Offers contests and other features online.

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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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White Birch Paper Company
Manufactures quality newsprint and directory stock.

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PACKAGING / DISTRIBUTION
 
FASTechGroup
Mailroom and packaging automation and control for inserters, collators and associated downstream equipment, including software to support automation for zoning, TMC and direct mail.

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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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PDI Plastics
Manufacturer of plastic products for the circulation and retail markets, including custom packaging.

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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
 

Dynaric
Manufacturer and supplier of non-metallic machine grade polypropylene and polyester plastic strapping products and a complete line of hand tools, semi-automatic, automatic and fully automatic strapping machines.

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Kodak
Full-solution provider to the newspaper prepress market. Products for newspaper printers include the Trendsetter NEWS thermal CTP and Synapse NewsManager workflow system.

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Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging USA
Computer-to-plate systems, thermal and conventional plates, imagesetting devices, film, chemistry, digital workflow and digital proofing.

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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
 
DYC Supply Company
A minority-owned company and subsidiary of Dynaric Inc. that offers a complete line of offset printing blankets guaranteed to be within .008” from blanket to blanket and roll to roll.

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

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Print2Finish LLC
Offers in line stitchers, in line gluers, rotary trimmers, in line label applicators, automatic registration systems, poly-bagging machines, inserting machines control upgrades, stitching wire and printing simulators.

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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 buying, selling and brokering pre-owned newspaper presses. In addition, Inland markets the new Americolor 4/4 double-width tower.

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manroland AG
The North American arm of manroland AG manufactures sheetfed and web printing presses for commercial printers and newspapers, and distributes print-related equipment of other manufacturer.

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MEGTEC Systems
Supplier of Zero Speed Splicers, Autoweb “stackable” pasters, two-arm and three-arm turret pasters and heatset equipment for the newspaper and insert market.

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WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG
Leader in mechanical engineering. Develops and manufactures high performance rotary presses for the demanding printing of newspapers and magazines.

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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
 
Digital Technology International
Provides newspapers with individual and fully-integrated software solutions to manage their circulation, advertising, production and business management operations.

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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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Obitmax
This web-based obituary clearinghouse system, streamlines the dataflow of obituaries from funeral homes to newspapers.

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SAXOTECH
Develops content management systems for the media industry.

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For information about the Buyers Guide, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office.
Click here for information about enhancing your online listing.