RICHMOND, VA. - Media General’s Operations and Distribution Solutions Group (O&DS) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Horizon Publishing North Carolina, Inc., publisher of the The Observer News Enterprise (O-N-E) of Newton, N.C.
The Observer News Enterprise, and its predecessor publication, the Newton Enterprise, have been published for a combined 125 years and serve readers and advertisers in the Newton community north of Charlotte. The Observer News Enterprise is printed at Media General’s O&DS Hickory, N.C., printing facility.
"This new partnership with Media General allows us to enjoy new printing efficiencies for our own core products and it also better positions us to serve the needs of our own weekly and monthly commercial print customers,” said The Observer News Enterprise Publisher Michael Willard. “The new efficiencies O&DS offers The O-N-E benefit both our products and the commercial publications we serve. We look forward to continuing to provide first-class customer service and graphic design assistance for our commercial customers, like The Record of Wilkes, LaVerdad de America and Claremont Courier, and we are confident that Media General will provide a top quality printed product," Willard continued.
"As we continue to explore revenue opportunities with niche publications, both internally and for other publications, O&DS creates a new, effective option for printing products outside the usual realm of newspapers including printing flexibility for booklet, magazines, wrappers and other unique formats, which will benefit our products as well as the clients we serve," Willard said.
In early 2009, Media General formed the Operations & Distribution Solutions Group to manage its production and distribution operations across all markets in order to maximize utilization of its production and distribution assets in the Southeast. Media General has 10 strategically located print facilities in the Southeast. In addition to printing its own newspapers, the company provides printing and delivery services for more than 100 other newspapers and specialty products. For more information, visitwww.mgprintanddeliver.com.
About Media General
Media General is a leading provider of news, information and entertainment across multiple media platforms, serving consumers and advertisers in strong local markets, primarily in the Southeastern United States. Media General’s operations are organized in five geographic market segments and a sixth segment that includes the company’s interactive advertising services and certain other operations. The company’s operations include 18 network-affiliated television stations and their associated websites, three metropolitan and 20 community newspapers and their associated websites, and more than 200 specialty publications that include weekly newspapers and niche publications targeted to various demographic, geographic and topical communities of interest. Many of the company’s specialty publications have associated websites. Media General additionally operates three interactive advertising services companies: Blockdot, which specializes in interactive entertainment and advergaming technologies; DealTaker.com, a coupon and shopping website; and NetInformer, a leading provider of wireless media and mobile marketing services.
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