ELGIN, Ill., Feb. 19, 2010 — VillageProfile.com, Inc., the national leader in Chamber of Commerce publishing, announced today it will work with the Los Angeles Times Media Group's Times Community Newspapers (TCN) to provide Southern California businesses with innovative, state-of-the-art marketing and communications opportunities via locally targeted Chamber of Commerce products.
"This collaboration allows TCN to combine the strength of our advertising sales force with Village Profile's marketing, production and distribution services to better serve local business needs," said Scott Pompe, Senior Vice President of Advertising & Targeted Media for the Los Angeles Times Media Group.
Village ProfileTM and TCN will leverage their respective resources and capabilities to deepen advertiser reach within TCN's footprint, which includes Burbank, Costa Mesa, Glendale, Huntington Beach, La Canada, Laguna Beach and Newport Beach. In addition, Village Profile's exclusive Convergence Publishing Program® multi-platform advertising bundle, encompassing traditional Chamber of Commerce publications along with websites, eBooks and mobile business directories, offers Chambers and participating advertisers access to a global audience.
President and CEO of Village ProfileTM Dan Nugara said, "What an opportunity TCN brings to Chambers of Commerce to promote their Chamber agenda and membership with media-newspaper support at the local community level, plus the dynamics of the Village ProfileTM Convergence Publishing Program® provides a win-win for the local Chamber, as well as TCN and Village ProfileTM."
About the Los Angeles Times Media Group
The Los Angeles Times Media Group (LATMG) businesses and affiliates include the Los Angeles Times (http://latimes.com), The Envelope (http://theenvelope.com), Times Community Newspapers (http://latimes.com/about/mediagroup/portfolio), Brand X (http://thisisbrandx.com), LA, Los Angeles Times Magazine (http://latimesmagazine.com), Hoy (http://vivelohoy.com), and California Community News and reaches approximately 5.9 million or 44% of all adults in the Southern California marketplace. LATMG is part of Tribune Company, one of the country's leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internet and broadcasting.
The flagship Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily readership of 2 million and 3 million on Sunday, and a combined print and interactive local weekly audience of 4.5 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times has been covering Southern California for over 128 years and the fast-growing latimes.com draws over 10 million unique visitors monthly. Additional information is available at http://latimes.com/aboutus.
About Village ProfileTM
Village ProfileTM introduced its exclusive multi-platform Convergence Publishing Program® to the Chamber industry in 2002, launching traditional print into the digital world with publication websites in 1995, free New View eBook® downloads, CDs and mobile business directories. Since 1996, the company's website, www.villageprofile.com, has seen over 230,000,000 hits from Internet locales around the world. In 2009, it garnered over 13 million hits and more than 2 million page views — of which nearly 1.7 million were unique visitors. The Village ProfileTM mobile business directory portal at www.vpmobile.us accumulated over 6.4 million hits.
Village ProfileTM has invested this level of time and resources not only to foster growth in Chamber communications, but also to help set the pace for a thriving business environment and let Chambers offer exclusive benefits to their members that no other publisher can provide. Village ProfileTM has presented Chambers of Commerce an economic stimulus package with more than $24 million in royalties paid — $14 million in the past eight years alone. Please take a look at a few of the company's client testimonials at www.villageprofile.com/aboutus/testimonials.html.
Village ProfileTM, headquartered in Elgin, IL, with a regional office in Fresno, CA, is an exclusive Chairman's Circle Platinum sponsor of the Western Association of Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E.), a proud member and Bronze Sponsor of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) association and a member of more than 600 local Chambers it currently partners with throughout the USA.
To learn more about our exclusive NO-COST, ROYALTY-GENERATING Convergence Publishing Program® available through Village ProfileTM, contact Joe Nugara Sr: Email OR 800-600-0134 ext. 220 for more details.
For more information, contact Email, 800-600-0134, ext. 248.
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