“However, at a board strategic planning session, we discussed the long-term viability of an independently owned family media company. was not an easy decision for the Graaskamp and Atkinson families,” President and CEO Pieter Graaskamp, said, according to the L-T. “After 130 years of family ownership, selling the Eau Claire Press Co. assets, including The Country Today (a rural-focused weekly paper) and Leader Printing (a commercial printing business). According to a report publishing in the Leader-Telegram, the sale included all Eau Claire Press Co. The Eau Claire-based Leader-Telegram has been owned and operated by members of the Graaskamp and Atkinson families since shortly after it was founded in 1881. The newspaper’s parent, the Eau Claire Press Co., announced the sale to Adams Publishing Group on May 31. The Leader-Telegram – which was one of the few remaining family-owned daily newspapers in the United States – has been sold to a Minnesota-based chain.
0 kommentar(er)
