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states and the District of Columbia. In addition to its primary retail component, the corporation includes a book wholesale and distribution subsidiary, American Wholesale Book Company, an e-commerce division operating as BOOKSAMILLION.COM, and an internet development and services company, NetCentral, in Nashville, Tennessee.

CMMI (Canadian Mass Media Inc.)

CMMI is the marketing arm of CMMI wholesalers. We provide category management and manage promotional programs City Newsstand, Inc. for Walmart Canada, Costco Barnes & Noble, Inc. City Newsstand and Chicago- Canada, Macs East, Macs West, Barnes & Noble, Inc. Main Newsstand are two of Sobey’s, Safeway, Pharmasave (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 Chicagoland's largest and Freshco. company, the nation’s largest destination newsstands. retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The Company operates 634 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states and one of the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com. SILVER SPONSOR

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Comag Marketing Group, LLC (CMG)

The premier Sales and Books-A-Million Clark Group, Inc. Marketing Company providing Founded in 1917 as a street Clark is the leading unique retail and wholesale corner newsstand in Florence, independent provider of value solutions for the industry’s Alabama, Books-A-Million, Inc. added global logistics solutions category leading brands and has grown to become the for distribution and influential publishers. premier book retailing chain in transportation management the Southeastern United States, services dedicated to the print and the second largest book media industry. retailer in the nation. Based in

Birmingham, Alabama, the

company currently operates more than 260 stores in 32

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Coast to Coast Newsstand Services Partnership Disticor Magazine Coast to Coast is Canada's Distribution Services oldest and largest full-service Disticor Magazine Distribution Faber national distributor of Services is an international Faber has 45 stores in 10 magazines. Known as Canada’s distributor of Canadian, states. We have stores in Newsstand Experts, we American, and British mass airports and train terminals, on represent most of Canada's top, market and special interest the interstate thruways, in name-brand mass market, newsstand publications, upscale hotels and major office specialty and niche publications servicing all channels of buildings. The majority of our as well as a growing list of US distribution through out North stores are located in the magazines. We are recognized America. Disticor is both a northeast (New York, MA, CT, for our innovative marketing check-out and mainline service NJ, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, solutions and record breaking company, providing clients with Baltimore). There are also results leading edged technology stores in Chicago, Florida and enabling them to make better Mississippi). publishing decisions, creating We planogram every store to higher profits for retailers and allow for single facings in nearly

wholesalers. every location. When we take in

a new title, we confer with the publisher on where that title

should be located on the

mainline to guarantee that we SILVER SPONSOR maximize sales. Every store is instructed where to merchandise this title. The details of the execution are as important as the plan. Follow-up is key to our success. Curtis Circulation Company To this end, we have a highly Curtis is a leading national Dollar General experienced individual who is distributor of magazines, with Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based dedicated to only magazines. retail sales exceeding $550 Dollar General Corporation is Our press manager determines million per year. the nation's largest small-box the draws for each title, in every Curtis is the key marketing, discount retailer with 25 stores. location, each month. The financial, and information link We make shopping for everyday wholesalers are not permitted to between the publishers, the needs simpler and hassle-free by add titles, adjust draws, or in wholesale distributors to whom offering a carefully edited any way determine what we distribute and the retailers assortment of the most popular magazines or quantities our that sell magazines to brands at low everyday prices in stores receive. Therefore, We consumers. small, convenient locations. control our distribution and Curtis’ mission is to bring our Dollar General ranks among the authorization list. client publishers' publications to largest retailers of top-quality This assures that your title will the single copy marketplace as brands made by America's most- have the opportunity to boost its efficiently as possible, while trusted manufacturers, such as sales in our stores. As a title providing maximum sales Procter & Gamble, Kimberly increases its sales, we monitor performance. We do this by Clark, Unilever, Kellogg's, and increase the draw. And we utilizing our extensive sales force General Mills and Nabisco. do this every month…not once a and the most experienced quarter. By having a person, and management group in the not a computer, analyze the industry. sales, we are able to react more quickly and accurately to sales. We have proven that you can increase sales and reduce returns effectively, if you properly manage your business. We do that, and we do it well!

We also offer fee-based GOLD SPONSOR fulfillment services, and customized retail marketing and merchandising program development. Ingram Periodicals is an authorized distributor to Gateway Newstand major bookstore chains, Gateway Newstands is a Christian retailers, newsstands, privately owned and operated specialty chains, and Magazine Information company with over 500 independent booksellers, Network (MagNet) franchise newsstand locations in totaling more than 6,000 stores. The industry’s only complete North America. Specializing in Ingram Content Group Inc. is the source of sales data, providing malls, office towers (lobby world’s largest and most trusted direct feeds, web access and shops) transit and hospitals. distributor of physical and custom reporting. MagNet Major acquisition in 2014 with digital content. Thousands of also provides full newsstand the purchase of 27 existing publishers, retailers and libraries consulting services under our ‘press’ locations. Large format world wide use our best-of-class Enhanced Services Program magazine stores included in digital, audio, print, print-on- (ESP) acquisition. demand, inventory management, wholesale and

full-service distributions

programs to realize the full

potential of books.

HEB HEB is a 111 year old grocery chain in Texas. Media Solutions Media Solutions, LLC was established in 1999 to service the Books-A-Million bookstore

chain. We have since grown to be one of the most innovative specialty wholesalers in the industry. Our proprietary systems and IT staff allow us to customize programs specific to our customer and supplier Hudson News Distributors needs. Wholesale distributor of Today we specialize in magazines and paperback implementing magazine books. programs specifically designed for specialty retail outlets and service a broad range of almost 5,000 customers through our Media Solutions and Media Solutions Specialty divisions. Liberty News Distributors We’re an energetic and Liberty News Distributors engaged magazine distributor services over 4,600 retailers with a history of identifying Nationwide with Domestic and newsstand circulation sales International Newspapers and Ingram Periodicals, Inc. opportunities for both Magazines. Servicing leading publishers and our retail Ingram Periodicals, an Ingram chains and locations that include partners. Content Group company, is a , Philadelphia International leading direct distributor of Airport, Newark Airport, WaWa, specialty retail and general Quik Chek, 7/Eleven and Stop n interest periodicals and books. Shop.

MetroNews Magazine. Book and Newspaper wholesaler servicing customers from Quebec to NewsLink Group, LLC British Columbia NewsLink® and its affiliates are a dynamic and innovative group of airport concessionaires, combining first-class service, a

broad and unique variety of OneSource Magazine

products, and trend-setting Distribution Premiere direct distributor to store designs to deliver airport travelers a truly unmatched natural grocery chains shopping experience. We nationwide. currently operate a wide variety

of news, specialty retail and

food & beverage concessions at Miami, Boston-Logan, John F. Kennedy and Tampa Micro Center International Airports. We Micro Center operates twenty- employ over 500 customer- five large stores in major service oriented individuals in markets nationwide. Founded in our stores, corporate offices, 1979 in Columbus, Ohio, Micro and logistics center. Center is a destination retailer designed to satisfy the dedicated OTG computer and technology user. OTG has created a news and Micro Center’s selection has gift program that is advancing more computer and computer- the model of the traditional related products than any other newsstand. At JFK, LaGuardia retailer. Micro Center sells over terminals C & D, Newark, 300 magazine titles. terminal C, Minneapolis, concourse G and Reagan National, terminal A, magazines

are at the forefront of the

customer experience.

NDA National Distribution Alliance is one Newsstands of America of the largest independently owned America’s best independent and operated-newspaper bookstores and small chains, Paradies Lagardere wholesalers in the country. We operating since 1993 Paradies Lagardère is the distribute hundreds of local, national North American Division of and international newspapers. We Lagardère Travel Retail, a world also distribute hundreds of top- leader in travel retail, and food selling consumer and business magazines and snack foods to and beverage concessions with 13,000 NY Metro-area merchants. operations in more than 30 Additional services include: countries and 217 airports vending, hawking, specialty/amenity throughout Europe, North drops, custom distribution, Alternate America, Asia and the Pacific. Delivery, trucking and even home With more than 4,100 airport delivery. stores and restaurants, it runs

the largest international

network of duty free and luxury, Besides managing all of Time travel essentials and foodservice Inc.'s titles which includes stores and restaurants. Named People, Time, Sports Illustrated, Best Airport Retailer for 21 Fortune and In Style), TIR is also consecutive years by Airport the sales, marketing and Revenue News, Paradies distribution partner for many of Lagardère is based in Atlanta, the leading client publishers in Ga., with an additional office in our industry. Toronto, Ontario. In today's volatile and highly competitive world of selling magazines at retail, Time Inc. Retail provides its publisher, Small Changes wholesaler and retail clients Small Changes is a socially with the industry know-how, conscious, ecologically-minded state-of-the-art marketing tools wholesale distribution company and vast array of services they committed to providing need to give them a powerful interesting and unique edge on the competition. magazines. For over 40 years we Our commitment has remained have distributed magazines constant: To increase the retail with alternative and topical sales and profitability of the viewpoints of a variety of titles we represent. Thanks to Presse Commerce Chain categories. We are also now aggressive investment in Canada’s Magazine Specialists offering more mainstream technology, dedication to titles to our customers. Located research and analysis, strong in Alaska, British Columbia, industry alliances and the Idaho, Montana, Nevada, collective leverage of the brands Northern CA, Oregon & we represent, that goal becomes Washington. In addition we a reality our magazine supply work hard to provide excellent chain partners can count. service to our customers by delivering, restocking sold out titles, selling new titles and

SILVER SPONSOR communicating clearly. Our average sell through per title is 60%

RY’LECO Display RY'LECO Displays, the leading PLATINUM SPONSOR design manufacturer of corrugated displays to the TNG USA magazine industry. Complete TNG is the largest North line of stock displays available. American periodicals wholesaler, operating in 42 states in the continental US, in Time Inc. Retail Puerto Rico and in Hawaii. With Time Inc. Retail is the largest our nation-wide infrastructure, publisher-owned magazine retail we effectively receive, process, marketer and distribution deliver and track over 2 billion services company in the copies and complete over 3.1 industry. TIR handles all aspects retailer visits per year. Some of of sales and marketing in the our major retail clients include: U.S. and Canada for more than AAFES, Albertson’s, HEB, Home 300 magazine brands, including Depot, Kroger, Meijer, Publix, four of the top five selling titles Safeway, Target and Wal-Mart. in the U.S. We partner with the industry to optimize opportunities and take

great pride in providing excellent service with accurate distribution, comprehensive category management and superior merchandising.

TNG Canada TNG Canada’s magazine and book distribution operations span the nation. Some of our retail clients include: Home Depot, Indigo, Loblaw Group of Companies, London Drugs, Overwaitea, Paradies Lagardere Travel Retail, 7-11, Shoppers Drug Mart.

Trofie Productions & ViaTrofie Networks Trofie delivers buyers to advertisers in North American airports, train stations, turnpike plazas and independent bookstores.