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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
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NAICS Code Periodical Publishers: 511120
Recent Events
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Portfolio.com Returns as National Voice for Strategic Business Leaders
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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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- 2004-02-06
From the executive summary: ‘Most restaurant bars are putting the squeeze on efforts to pass out freebies, thanks to sophisticated point-of-sale technology. Not only that, but the software they use provides a host of other services for restaurant owners and their customers. The software can monitor inventory, do payroll, and...
American City Business Journals acquires Hemmings Motor News
- 2002-04-17
American City Business Journals (ACBJ; Charlotte, NC), a unit of Advance Publications New York, has acquired Hemmings Motor News (HMN; Bennington, VT) from the family of Hemmings' late publisher and editor, Terry Erhich. No terms of the deal were given. HMN publishes Hemmings Motor News, a monthly magazine with...
American City Business Journals
- 2000-05-31
American City Business Journals (Charlotte, NC) has teamed with its local and regional business titles to launch Web sites for all of its 41 publications (www.bizjournals.com/city).
American City Business Journals
- 2000-01-31
American City Business Journals (Charlotte, NC) has launched a new company that will create Internet portals for small businesses. ACBJ chairman Ray Shaw said the new company, amcity.com, will intensify ACBJ's b-to-b Web presence for all of its publications, including its 41 local business newspapers. "Our business journals will he...
Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal
- 1998-07-01
Drawing on the efforts of more than 50 reporters and editors based in 40 cities spanning the top sports markets, each edition examines industry issues ranging from licensing and endorsement contracts to salaries and law, according to Ray Shaw, chairman and CEO of American City Business Journals, publisher of the...
AMERICAN CITY BUSINESS JOURNALS/DOW JONES TO LAUNCH MONTHLY BUSINESS MAG
- 1993-11-16
American City Business Journals (Charlotte, NC) and Dow Jones & Co. New York will begin the publication of Biz, a monthly magazine targeted to the heads of the nation's fastest-growing small businesses, in "early 1994," ACBJ said. The publication will have a controlled circulation of 500,000....
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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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Whitney Shaw named president and CEO of American City Business Journals
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