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Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan.〔"(Crain Offices Worldwide )." Crain Communications. Retrieved on January 6, 2011. "The company's corporate headquarters as well as headquarters for Automotive News, AutoWeek, and Crain's Detroit Business. 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207-2997"〕 The company publishes a variety of trade newspapers, including some city-based business newspapers, such as ''Crain's Cleveland Business'', ''Crain's Chicago Business'', ''Crain's Detroit Business'', and ''Crain's New York Business''. These weeklies follow the same formula, including finance, manufacturing, health care, real estate, technology, and government sections, as well as an "in-depth" section. In addition to newspaper production, the editors maintain Internet versions of these papers and offer e-mail news briefs free of charge. Crain also produces a number of major industry/trade periodicals, including ''Advertising Age'', ''TelevisionWeek'', ''Creativity'', ''Automobilwoche'' (in German), ''Automotive News '', ''Autoweek'', ''Business Insurance'', ''European Rubber Journal'', ''Investment News'', ''Modern Healthcare'', ''Pensions & Investments'', ''Plastics News'', ''Rubber & Plastics News'', ''Tire Business'', ''Urethanes Technology'', ''Waste and Recycling News'', and ''Workforce Management''. Crain Communications has 13 subsidiaries in other countries. == History == G. D. Crain, previously the city editor of the ''Louisville Herald'' newspaper, founded Crain Communications in Louisville, Kentucky in 1916, with only three staff members publishing two papers: ''Class'' (which later became ''Industrial Marketing'', among other names and is now called ''BtoB'') and ''Hospital Management'' (sold in 1952).〔("G.D. Crain Jr. Dies at 88; Published Advertising Age" ), ''The New York Times'', December 17, 1973.〕 The staff moved to Chicago later in 1916.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Crain-Communications-Inc-Company-History.html )〕 ''Advertising Age'' was founded in 1930.〔 The company changed its name to Crain Communications in 1969.〔 G D. Crain died in 1973 and was succeeded by his widow, Gertrude Crain, who chaired the company until 1996. Under her watch, the company grew to have 27 newspapers and magazines.〔Robin Pogrebin, ("Gertrude Crain, 85, Chairwoman Of Business Publishing Company" ), ''The New York Times'', July 23, 1996.〕 Son Keith Crain replaced her as chairman in 1997. Following his father’s death, Rance Crain became president of Crain Communications in 1974.〔 Crain now has about 30 business, trade and consumer publications and related Web sites in North America, Europe and Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hoovers.com/company/Crain_Communications_Inc/cchjti-1.html )〕 The company currently has over 850 employees in 14 locations spanning the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2001 the company relocated its corporate headquarters to the Brewery Park complex on Gratiot Avenue in downtown Detroit, as part of a move to consolidate its Detroit-based employees into one facility. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crain Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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