CT Newspaper Outsources Printing
-- Graphic Arts Online, 1/7/2009 4:59:00 AM
The Record-Journal Publishing Co., Meridan, CT, will outsource its printing and distribution next month to The Springfield Republican in Springfield, MA, eliminating 17 full-time jobs and 28 part-time jobs. The firm operated a 30 year-old press that managers say was “very expensive to operate.”Record-Journal—owned by the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications Inc.—publishes a daily of the same name, and five weeklies: The North Haven Citizen, the Town Times, The Southington Citizen, The Plainville Citizen and The Berlin Citizen.
"We've been studying this for over a year and met with two newspapers that made the switch and were pleased. We also visited several potential printers," reports publisher Eliot White. "It became apparent that the operating savings were enormous."
Replacing the Record-Journal's press would cost an estimated $12 million.
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