Walsworth Publishing Company

Walsworth produces catalogs and periodicals, and is the only American- and family-owned publisher of yearbooks. Started in 1937 by the Walsworth Brothers. William, Edward, and Don Walsworth. Current leadership is under Dons son, Don O. Walsworth, CEO, and grandson, Don Walsworth, president. The company operates from administrative offices and printing and binding facilities in Marceline, Mo., a prepress facility in Brookfield, Mo., a sales and marketing office in Overland Park, Kan., and a printing facility in Saint Joseph, Mich. Additionally, Walsworth owns The Donning Company Publishers in Virginia Beach, Va., a specialty book publisher, and The Ovid Bell Press in Fulton, Mo., a printer of journals and magazines.[2]

Walsworth Publishing Company
Private company
IndustryPublishing
FoundedMarceline, Missouri (1937)
HeadquartersMarceline, Missouri, United States
Key people
Don O. Walsworth, CEO
ProductsYearbooks
RevenueUS$85.1 million (est.)[1]
Number of employees
1,250
WebsiteWalsworth.com

Company history

Walsworth[3] Publishing Company, among the 35 largest printing companies in the U.S., is headquartered in Marceline, Mo.

In 1937, Don Walsworth settled in Marceline to print playbills[4] with a borrowed typewriter and a mimeograph machine. Soon the product line expanded to include cookbooks and, following World War II, memorial books to honor those who had served.[5]

In 1947,[6] Walworth began to produce yearbooks. In 1970, the Commercial printing division was established to balance the cyclical yearbook[7] production schedule, adding textbooks, catalogs, magazines and other specialty publications to the Walsworth line.[8]

Walsworth is currently still a family-owned company that employs more than 1,250 people worldwide, and over 675 employees have attained Master Printer of America status.[9]

The company operates from administrative offices and printing and binding facilities in Marceline, Mo., a prepress facility in Brookfield, Mo., a sales and marketing office in Overland Park, Kan., and a printing facility in Saint Joseph, Mich. Additionally, Walsworth owns the Donning Company Publishers in Virginia Beach, Va., a specialty book publisher, and The Ovid Bell Press in Fulton, Mo., a printer of journals and magazines.[10]

In December 2019, the company announced plans to acquire the Wisconsin-based Ripon Printers.[11]

gollark: > i'd support banning it straight through, independent of any mechanisms, as peer-reviewed research has showed it's shitIf you go around banning it, though, *there is clearly a way your government can ban that stuff*, hence meaning there's a mechanism for and/or support for it. And that's bad.
gollark: If there was a mechanism in place to stop people doing that sort of only-self-harming-maybe stuff, which there is now, it *would* (and *has*) been affected by political pressure.
gollark: Thing is, this mechanism for banning things would be controlled by a *government* or something, which means that when a sufficient mass of people complain that something is Clearly Immoral™ (see: homosexuality, drugs, whatever else) it would be banned.
gollark: Too bad!
gollark: Maybe require a warning or something, at most?

References
  1. http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.WALSWORTH_PUBLISHING_COMPANY_INC.e539cc3fa7259e6e.html
  2. http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.WALSWORTH_PUBLISHING_COMPANY_INC.e539cc3fa7259e6e.html
  3. http://www.walsworth.com/company
  4. http://www.webvent.tv/site/walsworth/3506
  5. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3483600103.html
  6. http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/about/history.html
  7. http://whattheythink.com/news/38226-walsworth-optimizes-worflow-with-eskoartwork-odystar/
  8. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4285662
  9. http://www.uwecsaleswarmup.com/sponsor.phtml/1f651bc58c/Walsworth%20Yearbooks
  10. http://pressreleases.kcstar.com/release/messages/68971/
  11. https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/money/2019/12/18/walsworth-acquire-ripon-printers-wisconsin-operations-continue/2687023001/


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.