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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
News & Analysis
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Companies Are Turning A Page In Annual Report Presentations
BNET
- 2004-07-02
From the executive summary: ‘Annual reports help companies communicate to shareholders and potential investors information about the companies' prior fiscal year and, perhaps more important, their future. For years, investors and analysts have relied on the aforesaid tools that report a company's goings on in making their decision to buy,...
Length Of Sales Cycle Can Orchestrate How You Manage Time
BNET
- 2003-01-01
The sales cycle consists of the time that elapses between the customer initiating the buying process, and the point at which a decision is made on which product to buy. The length of the sales cycle plays an important role in time management. The longer the sales cycle for a...
Increase Share Of Profitable Work Through Pricing Strategies
BNET
- 2001-07-27
From the executive summary: ‘All of the typical problems in the everyday life of a contractor can be better controlled through the analysis of strategic direction, financial analysis, profit budgeting, and job size. It is thus better to keep in mind that best systems go unused if they are not...
Buyers Should Seek Best Target Price Before Buying
BNET
- 2000-06-16
From the executive summary: ‘Knowing what the best price available is for what one is buying is not easy information to come by. However, the vendors, who seek to get the highest price the market will bear for their product or service, are definitely not going to be very eager...
Your Mission Statement Is A Critical Tool
BNET
- 2000-02-18
From the executive summary: ‘A company mission statement is a critical tool because, although true that in a small business one usually has a good sense of what they are doing, the employees might not be working in harmony with the strategic goals and objectives. The premise of a mission...
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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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