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News Release from: KBA North America | Subject: Comet
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2006
KBA Strengthens American Newspaper Press
Presence
Citing the press's high degree of technological flexibility, Wisconsin (USA) Bliss Communications has selected a KBA Comet.
Citing the press's high degree of technological flexibility, Wisconsin (USA) Bliss Communications has selected a KBA Comet The new press will produce a range of newspaper, including the Janesville Gazette, The Jotter, The Week of Walworth County, The Monroe Times of Green and Lafayette Counties and other publications
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sydney H Bliss, chairman of Bliss Communications, commented: "The purchase of this KBA Comet press represents a milestone in the 161-year history of the Janesville Gazette and the Bliss Family.
Our partnership with KBA demonstrates our belief in and commitment to the newspaper industry and the people and communities of south-eastern Wisconsin." According to Gary Owen, KBA North America's director of marketing and newspaper sales: "It's the configuration of the four formers that provides the heartbeat of this press's flexible design.
By arranging them in two pairs - a pair in the lower superstructure and another above - they will be uniquely able to produce a variety of products, either simultaneously or independently." Established in 1845, the Janesville Gazette is the dominant source of news and advertising in southern Wisconsin.
The paper circulates in all of Rock and Walworth counties, as well as portions of Green, Dane and Jefferson counties, hitting 22,696 homes daily and 25,750 on Sunday.
Claus Bolza-Schunemann, KBA's deputy president on hand for the signing of the deal during Nexpo 2006, echoed Sydney Bliss's comments: "The future is in print and Bliss Communications' commitment to a new production facility, including the Comet provides additional support of this notion." Other Bliss Communications papers include the Eagle Herald of Marinette and Oconto counties and Michigan's Menominee County, The Daily Globe based in Gogebic County Michigan and Renaissance magazine, serving southern Wisconsin.
Gary Owen said: "This sale will give us an extraordinary mid-western KBA product showcase.
Within a 100-mile radius, we'll have this single-width Comet, a double-width Colora at the Rockford Register Star and a double-width Commander with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.".
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