Meredith
Media company with
magazines and television properties.
Headquarters:
1716 Locust St.
Des Moines, IA 50309
Employees: 2,586
CEO: Steve Lacy
Stock Symbol: MDP
Website:
http://www.meredith.com
Career Site
Meredith Corporation is one of the nation's
leading media companies with interests in magazine and book publishing,
television broadcasting, integrated marketing and interactive
media.
The Meredith Publishing Group features
25 subscription magazines including Better Homes and
Gardens, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, Child,
Fitness and American Baby and approximately
200 special interest publications.
Meredith has approximately 350 books in
print and has established marketing relationships with some of
America's leading companies including The Home Depot, DIRECTV,
DaimlerChrysler, Wal-Mart and Carnival Cruise Lines. Meredith's
customer database, which contains approximately 85 million names,
is one of the largest domestic databases among media companies
and enables magazine and television advertisers to target marketing
campaigns precisely.
Additionally, Meredith has an extensive
Internet presence that includes 32 web sites and strategic alliances
with leading Internet destinations. Meredith Hispanic Ventures
published five Spanish-language titles, making Meredith the largest
Hispanic publisher in the United States.
Meredith owns 14 television stations including
properties in top-25 markets such as Atlanta, Phoenix and Portland,
and an AM radio station: WGCL-TV (CBS), Atlanta; KPHO-TV (CBS),
Phoenix, AZ; KPTV (FOX), Portland, OR; KPDX-TV (UPN), Portland,
OR; WFSB-TV (CBS), Hartford-New Haven, CT; WSMV-TV (NBC), Nashville,
TN; KCTV (CBS) and KSMO-TV (WB), Kansas City, MO; WHNS-TV (FOX),
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC-Asheville, NC; WNEM-TV (CBS),
Flint-Saginaw, MI; KVVU-TV (FOX), Las Vegas, NV; WFLI-TV (WB),
Chattanooga, TN; WSHM, (CBS) Springfield, MA; and KFXO-CA (FOX),
Bend, OR, and radio station WNEM-AM in Saginaw-Bay City, MI.
In fiscal 2006, the company reported revenues
of $1.6 billion and net earnings of $144.7 million.
History
Edwin Thomas Meredith founded the company
in 1902 when he began publishing Successful Farming magazine.
The first issue was sold to 500 subscribers. By 1914, circulation
was over the half-million mark.
1922 - Meredith began publishing Fruit,
Garden and Home magazine, a home and family service publication.
1924 - Changed name of Fruit, Garden
and Home to Better Homes and Gardens magazine. (A
three-person staff produced the first Better Homes and Gardens
magazine. The first issue cost a dime on the newsstand, and a
one-year subscription cost 35 cents.)
1930 - Published first edition of the Better
Homes and Gardens Cook Book. (Better Homes and Gardens
magazine subscribers received complimentary copies.)
1946 - Meredith first offered stock to
the public.
1948 - Entered the television broadcasting
business with the purchase of WHEN-TV in Syracuse, N.Y.
1965 - First listed on the New York Stock
Exchange as MDP.
1986 - Purchased Ladies' Home Journal
magazine.
2005 - The company acquired Family Circle,
Parents, Child and Fitness magazines from Gruner & Jahr for
$350 million.
Benefits
- 401K Savings and Investment Plan
- Retirement Plan
- Group Health and Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Dependent Life Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off (vacation, personal days and sick leave)
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Matching gifts and volunteer hours program
- Subscription discounts
Updated August 1, 2006
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