Company Profile

Every day, 3 out of 4 Americans are touched by Tribune Company in some way.

Our parent company is a 150-year-old trusted entity. Its holdings include interactive, publishing, and media companies across 22 major markets nationwide. Via Tribune Direct, Tribune Company offers direct mail to its clients on a national level.

Let us help you make the most of your next marketing promotion. Contact a Tribune Direct Representative today to help you design your next direct mail campaign from idea to in-home.

Industry Associations

USPS The United States Postal Service fuels the nation's economy and delivers hundreds of millions of messages and billions of dollars in financial transactions each day to eight million businesses and 250 million Americans.

DMA The Direct Marketing Association is the oldest and largest trade association for users and suppliers in the direct, database and interactive marketing fields.

CADM The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing is a professional organization providing support, education and networking opportunities to direct marketers in Chicago and the midwest.

MFSA For more than 82 years MFSA has been working to improve the business environment for mailing and fulfillment services companies, while providing opportunities for the learning and professional development of the managers of these companies.

LADMA The Los Angeles Direct Marketing Association (LADMA) is an organization comprised of direct marketing professionals in the Los Angeles area.

National Target Marketing Coalition The Newspaper Target Marketing Coalition, Inc. is a national trade association, located in Washington D.C., whose members are major-market newspapers that operate shared and targeted non-subscriber advertising distribution programs. Tribune Company is a proud and active member of the NTMC.

History

In March 1991, Americomm Direct Marketing was acquired by the Chicago Tribune. In February, 1996, it was renamed Chicago Tribune Direct, and in August 1998, renamed Tribune Direct. ith its acquisition by the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Direct became part of Tribune Company, a leading information and entertainment company. Tribune publishes daily newspapers, operates television and radio stations, and produces and syndicates information and programming.

Between 1998 and 2006, Tribune Company demonstrated its commitment to the direct mail medium with the purchase and creation of several direct mail facilities across the United States. These companies include Times Direct (direct mail partner to the Los Angeles Times), Sentinel Direct (direct mail partner to the Orlando Sentinel), Sun Sentinel Direct, Raven Direct, Courant Direct (direct mail partner to the Hartford Courant), and Baltimore Sun Direct (direct mail partner to the Baltimore Sun).

May, 2006 Tribune Company announced the integration of all its direct mail facilities into one national brand. The new, national Tribune Direct provides the national reach of facilities located throughout the United States with the Local Touch of established regional partnerships. Tribune Direct serves an important role in reaffirming Tribune’s capability to effectively link marketers with customers.