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Article: Wenner Media, Inc.
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Wenner Media, Inc.
1290 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
New York, New York 10104
U.S.A.
Telephone: (212) 484-1616
Fax: (212) 484-1713
Web site: http://www.usmagazine.com/html/wenner.html
Private Company
Incorporated:
1967 as Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.
Employees:
350
Sales:
$253.5 million (1998)
NAIC:
511120 Periodical Publishers
Wenner Media, Inc. is the owner of
Rolling Stone, US
, and
Men
’
s Journal
magazines. The company was founded in 1967 as Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. by Jann Wenner and a small group of investors. The San Francisco-based company
’
s initial publication was
Rolling Stone
magazine, which became known as the voice of the late 1960s
“
Woodstock
...