mast

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

           

Advertising

Audit Services

Broker

Circulation

Consulting

Facility Design

Finance

Ink

Insurance

Internet

Legal

News/Editorial

Newsprint

Packaging/Distribution

Prepress

Press Equipment

Pressroom

Purchasing

Software Systems


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


 
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.

Web site

Contact info

top

 


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.

Web site

Contact info

top

 


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

Web site

Contact info

top




travidia
Travidia
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.

Web site

Contact info

top

 
 
AUDIT SERVICES
 
Audit Bureau of Circulations
The first and largest circulation-auditing organization 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 a variety of flexible formats, including print, spreadsheet, CD-ROM and online.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


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

Web site

Contact info

top




Cribb, Greene & Associates

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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


 
CIRCULATION
 
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.

Web site

Contact info

top


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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




Belden Associates
Research and consulting company to help newspapers fulfill their potential as news and information providers.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




Landon Media Group
Research-based sales and marketing company delivering sales/marketing solutions via newspapers to agencies and direct advertising clients.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




Swartz Morris Media
Managing small, local, hometown newspapers.

Contact info

top




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

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top


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

Web site

Contact info

top




The Austin Company
Specializes in consulting, facility location, design, engineering, construction and design-build.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


 
FINANCE
 
Citizens Bank
Commercial loans to publishing groups throughout the United States.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top

 

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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


 
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.

Web site

Contact info

top


 
INTERNET
 
McClatchy Interactive
Offers content management, hosting, classified and calendaring solutions, registration software and audience analysis.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




TRAVEDIA

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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top



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

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




The Zinser Law Firm

Actively represents daily newspapers in labor and employment law issues.

Web site

Contact info

top


 
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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


 
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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




White Birch Paper Company
Manufactures quality newsprint and directory stock.

Web site

Contact info

top



 
PACKAGING / DISTRIBUTION
 
dyn
Dynaric, Inc.

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.

Web site

Contact info

top




Enternet LLC
Mailroom and packaging automation and control for inserters, collators and associated downstream equipment, including software to support automation for zoning, TMC and direct mail.

Web site

Contact info

top





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

Web site

Contact info

top





Muller Martini Mailroom Systems, Inc.
Integrated inserting solutions, high-speed inserters, press conveyors, mailroom auxiliary equipment and production system software.

Web site

Contact info

top





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

Web site

Contact info

top




Quipp Systems, Inc.
Designs, manufactures and installs automatic material handling systems for newspaper packaging and distribution centers.

Web site

Contact info

top




Schur Packaging Systems, Inc.
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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top



 
PREPRESS
 
Ewert America Electronics, Ltd.
Offers pre-press workflow systems, press control systems, main drive and RTP retrofits and upgrades, mailroom control systems and electronics modernization services.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




NELA
Manufactures register control systems, including punch and bending systems for offset plates, plate handling systems, clamps and lock on press.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


 
PRESS EQUIPMENT
 
Anocoil Corporation
Offering a wide range of offset plates (analog and digital), processing chemistries and high-volume, heavy-duty plate processors for customers in both commercial and newspaper markets. Products include conventional offset plates and the latest in thermally imaged plates for Computer-to-Plate (CTP) systems.

Web site

Contact info

top

 


dyc
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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




 
PRESSROOM
 
FUJIFILM Graphic Systems U.S.A., Inc.
Digital printing plates and conventional plates, pressroom supplies, electronic hardware and software, electronic training, imagesetting film, as well as plate and film processing equipment.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




MAN Roland, Inc.
North American arm of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG Manufactures sheetfed and web printing presses for commercial printers and newspapers, and distributes print-related equipment of other manufacturer.

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




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

Web site

Contact info

top


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

Web site

Contact info

top



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

Web site

Contact info

top




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.

Web site

Contact info

top




SAXOTECH
Develops content management systems for the media industry.

Web site

Contact info

top

 


Vision Data
Supplies newspaper software, addressing circulation, display ad billing, receivables, classified and general accounting functions.

Web site

Contact info

top

 



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