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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.7B
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American City metropolitan business newspapers reach 4 million readers each week with exclusive, in-depth coverage of their business communities. The loyalty of these readers testifies to American City's commitment to top-quality journalism, unexcelled service for advertisers and readers, and active business community involvement. American City also operates the City Business Journal Network, a national advertising representative firm, and Biz Books, marketer of hundreds of business book titles. In addition to its business newspapers, American City operates Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, SportsBusiness Journal, Sports Business Daily, and five sports annuals. American City is the nation's leading publisher of NASCAR publications which include NASCAR Scene and SceneDaily.com. American City also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News, the "bible" of the collector-car hobby. American City is a unit of Advance Publications Inc., which also operates Conde Nast Magazines, , Parade magazine, Fairchild Publications, the Golf Digest companies, Newhouse Newspapers and cable television interests.
Chief Executive Officer
Whitney R. ShawNumber of Employees 2,000
Contact Information
120 W Morehead Street
Suite 400
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-1844
(704) 973-1000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Periodical Publishers: 511120
Recent Events
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Olivieri takes ACBJ post
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Whitney Shaw named president and CEO of American City Business Journals
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Coming To Terms With Fear And Your Leadership Abilities
BNET
- 2004-11-19
From the executive summary: ‘It is not lack of intelligent quotient, that is the cause of leadership failure in business or personal life; it is a lack of effective emotional intelligence. Fear is perhaps the greatest emotional barrier to developing greater emotional intelligence through deeper self-awareness as well as the...
Firm Leads Employees To Horses To Learn About Leadership
BNET
- 2004-11-05
The stability of an organization depends to a large extent on the amount of Emotional Intelligence EI possessed by its management. EI is based on a couple of different premises and needs to be implied according to a particular situation. The higher one goes in an organization, the more qualitative...
Emotional Intelligence: The New Measure Of Employees
BNET
- 2004-10-29
From the executive summary: ‘Emotional self-control and empathy are identified as the two most powerful competencies; their absence contributes to executive derailment more than any other competencies. There is something major that differentiates emotional intelligence from most of the training and development in the past. First, it focuses on managing...
Intuition Often Is Your Best Weapon In Business
BNET
- 2004-09-24
From the executive summary: ‘The people who work in the areas of organizational development and social psychology tend to place a substantial amount of credence on emotional intelligence when, in fact, intuitive intelligence is a critical success factor for any business person. Having an intuitive experience is like having a...
Emotional Intelligence Often Crucial To The Team's Results
BNET
- 2004-04-30
From the executive summary: ‘Today's business reality requires leaders at every level who are both smart and socially intelligent. Research shows that individuals who are most effective possess high degrees of both Intelligent Quotient and Emotional Quotient EQ. Now the findings are being applied to organizations, and the results are...
Emotional Intelligence Is Key To Leadership
BNET
- 2003-02-28
From the executive summary: ‘Emotional learning demands a more profound change at a neurological level, weakening the existing habit, and replacing it with a better one. In the 20th century, new discoveries through brain-imaging technology confirmed that there is an emotional brain, the limbic system, where emotions originate. This means...
Leaders Need Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence
BNET
- 2000-09-15
From the executive summary: ‘Productivity can be sustained only in an organizational culture that stimulates loyalty and commitment from its employees. To compete, an organization's leaders must recognize that they can achieve the internal stability necessary to cope with constantly changing pressures only by acting on the obvious; human beings...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Whitney R. Shaw | Chief Executive Officer |
| Tim Bradbury | President, New Media |
| Ed Baker | Chief Marketing Officer |
| Alan Ives | Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing |
| Thomas C. Wood | Vice President |
| Kirk A. Shaw | Director, Operations Services |
| Wedge Abels | Director, Financial Reporting & Technology |
| Nancy Salem | Editor, Business Weekly |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Vice President | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | President, New Media | Current |
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Executive Vice President | Former |
| Generate Inc. | Board Observer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Chief Marketing Officer | Current |
| Atlanta Business Chronicle | Publisher | Current |
| Eagle Star Awards Gala | Publisher, Atlanta Business Chronicle | Current |
| American-Israel Chamber of Commerce | Board of Directors | Current |
| Georgia State University | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Director, Operations Services | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Director, Financial Reporting & Technology | Current |
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Director, Finance Serv | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American City Business Journals, Inc. | Editor, Business Weekly | Current |
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