About Us
Our mission is to be a trusted, dependable, and cost-effective purchasing cooperative for products and services essential to the operation and success of newspaper/media companies and commercial printers. We will also help assure member success by providing practical ways for them to enhance revenue and improve operating efficiencies.
Not-for-profit
Our vision is to bring PAGE members together to cooperatively assure industry competitive pricing on all supplies and services.
Member Owned
Our values state that each member shares equally in the ownership and control of the PAGE Cooperative. All members – regardless of size – receive the same base pricing from the same suppliers.
Cooperative Buying Association
We will also help assure member success by providing practical ways for them to enhance revenue and improve operating efficiencies.
Welcome to PAGE Cooperative, your trusted partner for savings
The idea of a “buying group” to help independent newspaper companies gain the pricing similar to the large publicly owned companies, was hatched in 1983 at a meeting of newspaper owners and friends – Pete Eyerly, Bloomsburg (PA) Press Enterprise; Joe Smyth, Independent Newspapers – including Dover, DE and several non-dailies in FL and AZ; and Chuck Berky, a former owner/Publisher of The Reporter (Lansdale, PA) and Gannett Executive.
The time was ripe for the founders of PAGE to call on other key friends and associates in the newspaper industry to pool their resources and purchasing volumes to start the cooperative.
With the help of a passionate Advisory Committee, 10 family-owned newspaper companies, and several dedicated advising professionals, PAGE opened for business on April 1st, 1984. Early supporting suppliers included Hoosier Photo Supply (HPS), Anocoil, Tembec and General Printing Ink.
The early years brought continuous, but fairly slow growth. It took 10 years for the Cooperative to reach its goal of $50 million in annual purchases, but from then on, the increase in membership, purchasing volume and numbers of suppliers started to mushroom to reach the size it is today.
As the newspaper industry changes to a variety of platforms for delivery of their information products, PAGE is changing and evolving along with its members. It is also taking advantage of its large network and expanding its services to include revenue-producing suppliers that will further help the financial health of its membership.
Our Leadership Team
Kevin Craig
CEO
Before joining PAGE, Kevin served as SVP/Director at The Arena Group where he helped Parade magazine with its transition from print to digital. Prior to that, he was SVP/Director of the Newspaper Relations Group at AMG Parade for 12 years. Before joining Parade, Kevin was Director of Sales and Marketing for Signature Offset in Boulder, CO. He also served as Vice President/National Accounts for the paper manufacturer Resolute Forest Products (formerly AbitibiBowater, Inc. Kevin graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. in Marketing and received an MBA from San Diego State University. He and his family reside in Raleigh, NC
Contact Information:
Kevin.Craig@pagecooperative.com
951-760-1115
Michelle Ackerman
Director of Member Success
Michelle began her career with the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO where she spent 21 years in advertising, sales and leadership roles with the Rocky and the Denver Post through the JOA years. She followed that as Advertising Director at the Colorado Springs Gazette. She then spent 10 years as a project and product manager with Brainworks Software and 3 years as Customer Success Manager with TapClicks before joining PAGE. Michelle graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a B.S. in Advertising and a B.S. in Marketing. She and her husband and rescue dogs live in Lakewood, CO.
Contact Information:
Michelle.Ackerman@pagecooperative.com
303-807-7757
Jeremy Gulban
Chairman – Cherry Road Technologies (Parsippany, NJ)
Brandon Eyerly
Vice Chairman – The Press Enterprise (Bloomsburg, PA)
Francis Wick
Treasurer – Wick Communications (Sierra Vista, AZ)
Stuart Richner
Secretary – Richner Communications (Garden City, NY)
Brian Jarvis
Chairman Emeritus – WV News (Clarksburg, WV)
Aaron Julien
Newspapers of New England (Concord, NH)
Samantha Johnston
Management consultant for Strategy Hound (Aspen, CO)
Jon Rust
Rust Communications (Cape Girardeau, MO)
Eddie Blakeley
Journal Inc. (Tupelo, MS)
