Crain Communications Inc.

Infobox Company
company_name = Crains Communications Inc
foundation = 1916
location = Detroit, Michigan
industry = Newspapers, periodicals
products = "Crain's Cleveland Business", "Crain's Chicago Business", "Crain's Detroit Business", "Crain's New York Business", and "Crain's Manchester Business"
num_employees = 1,000
parent =
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.crain.com/ Crain Communications Inc website]
footnotes =

Crain Communications Inc is a major publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan. The company publishes a variety of trade newspapers, including some city-based business newspapers, such as "Crain's Cleveland Business", "Crain's Chicago Business", "Crain's Detroit Business", and "Crain's New York Business", and "Crain's Manchester Business". These weeklies follow the same formula, including finance, manufacturing, health care, real estate, technology, and government sections, as well as an "in-depth" section. In addition to newspaper production, the editors maintain Internet versions of these papers and offer e-mail news briefs free of charge.

Crain also produces a number of major industry/trade periodicals, including "Advertising Age", "TelevisionWeek", "BtoB", "Creativity", "Automobilwoche" (in German), "Automotive News", "Automotive News Europe", "AutoWeek", "American Coin-Op", "American Drycleaner", "American Laundry News", "Business Insurance", "Business Insurance Europe", "European Rubber Journal", "Financial Week", "Investment News", "Modern Healthcare", "Pensions & Investments", "Plastics News", "RCR Wireless News", "Rubber & Plastics News", "Tire Business", "Urethanes Technology", "Waste News", and "Workforce Management". All have web sites as well.

History

Crain Communications started modestly in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1916, with only three staff members publishing two papers, "Class" (which later became "BtoB") and "Hospital Management" (later sold). The staff moved to Chicago later in 1916. It currently boasts over 1,000 employees in 19 locations.

The company is now headquartered at 1155 Gratiot Avenue in downtown Detroit.

By the late 1950s, the company provided life and medical insurance plans and pensions for its employees.

The company recently launched Crain's Manchester Business in Manchester, UK.

Management and ownership

Rance E. Crain is currently the company president and is editor-in-chief for multiple publications, including "Advertising Age." Keith Crain is chairman of the board and is the publisher for many of the publications. Other Crains are on the board as well.

External links

* [http://www.crain.com/ Crain Communications, Inc.]

Crain Communications, Inc. Publications

* [http://www.adage.com/ Advertising Age]
* [http://www.btobonline.com/ BtoB]
* [http://www.adcritic.com/ Creativity]
* [http://www.tvweek.com/ Televisionweek]
* [http://www.automotivenews.com/ Automotive News]
* [http://www.autonewseurope.com/ Automotive News Europe]
* [http://www.automobilwoche.de/ Automobilwoche]
* [http://www.autoweek.com Autoweek]
* [http://www.chicagobusiness.com/ Crains Chicago Business]
* [http://www.crainscleveland.com/ Crains Cleveland Business]
* [http://www.crainsdetroit.com/ Crains Detroit Business]
* [http://www.crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk/ Crains Manchester Business]
* [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/ Crains New York Business]
* [http://www.rcrnews.com/ RCR Wireless News]
* [http://www.wastenews.com/ Waste News]
* [http://www.modernhealthcare.com/ Modern Healthcare]
* [http://www.workforce.com/ Workforce Management]
* [http://www.businessinsurance.com/ Business Insurance]
* [http://www.businessinsuranceeurope.com/ Business Insurance Europe]
* [http://www.financialweek.com/ Financialweek]
* [http://www.investmentnews.com/ Investment News]
* [http://www.pionline.com/ Pensions &Amp; Investments]
* [http://www.prw.com European Plastics News]
* [http://www.european-rubber-journal.com/ European Rubber Journal]
* [http://www.plasticsnews.com/subscriber/headlines.phtml Plastics News]
* [http://www.prw.com Plastics &Amp; Rubber Weekly]
* [http://www.rubbernews.com/ Rubber &Amp; Plastics News]
* [http://www.tirebusiness.com/ Tire Business]
* [http://www.urethanes-technology-international.com/ Urethanes Technology International]
* [http://www.americancoinop.com American Coin-Op]
* [http://www.americandrycleaner.com American Drycleaner]
* [http://www.americanlaundrynews.com American Laundry News]