Crain's Detroit Business
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| Industry | Newspapers, periodicals |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Headquarters | Detroit, Michigan |
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Advertising Age Autoweek Crain's Chicago Business Crain's New York Business Modern Healthcare |
| Website | www |
Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan. The company publishes a variety of trade newspapers, Internet versions of these papers, and e-mail news briefs free of charge.
Its portfolio includes 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. These weeklies follow the same formula, including finance, manufacturing, health care, real estate, technology, and government sections, as well as an "in-depth" section.
Crain also produces a number of major industry/trade periodicals, including Advertising Age, TelevisionWeek, Creativity, Automobilwoche (in German), Automotive News , European Rubber Journal, Investment News, Modern Healthcare, Pensions & Investments, Plastics News, Rubber & Plastics News, Tire Business, Urethanes Technology, Waste and Recycling News, and Workforce Management. It also has a few lifestyle magazines, such as Autoweek.
Crain Communications has 13 subsidiaries in other countries.
G. D. Crain, previously the city editor of the Louisville Herald newspaper, founded Crain Communications in Louisville, Kentucky in 1916, with only three staff members publishing two papers: Class (which later became Industrial Marketing, among other names and is now called BtoB) and Hospital Management (sold in 1952). The staff moved to Chicago later in 1916.Advertising Age was founded in 1930. The company changed its name to Crain Communications in 1969.
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