Crain Communications Inc publishes a variety of trade newspapers. These include 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, and Crain's Monterey and Crain's Mexico in Spanish. 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 paper and offer e-mail news briefs free of charge. A fruit stand at a market. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... It has been suggested that Techie be merged into this article or section. ...

Other periodicals produced by Crain Communications include Advertising Age, BtoB, Creativity, Automobilwoche (in German), Automotive News, Automotive News Europe, AutoWeek, American Coin-Op, American Drycleaner, American Laundry News, Business Insurance, Business Insurance Europe, European Rubber Journal, Financial Week, Investment News, Modern Healthcare, Pensions & Investments, PlasticsNews, RCR Wireless News, Rubber & Plastics News, Television Week, Tire Business, Urethanes Technology, Waste News, and Workforce Management. All have web sites as well. This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Advertising Age is a magazine, chronicling trends in advertisement. ...

History

Crain Communications started modestly in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1916, with only three staff members publishing two papers, Class (which later became BtoB) and Hospital Management (later sold). The staff moved to Chicago later in 1916. It currently boasts over 1,000 employees in 19 locations. Louisville redirects here. ...

By the late 1950s, the company provided life and medical insurance plans and pensions for its employees.

Management and ownership

Rance E. Crain is currently the company president and is editor-in-chief for multiple publications, including Advertising Age. Keith Crain is chairman of the board and is the publisher for many of the publications. Other Crains are on the board as well.

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