Latest Target Report Analysis: Newspaper Publishers Enter the Eye of the Storm
In The Target Report's August 2015 issue, Mark Hahn, managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, discusses the state of the newspaper industry. Hahn notes that the future is becoming increasingly cloudy and uncertain for regional and community newspaper publishers—readers are drifting away from the printed form of news, and advertising revenues decline in lock step.
Transactional activity over the past several years indicates that publishers of newspapers, from small community weeklies to major metro dailies, are seeking shelter from the storm by adopting several strategies that they hope will restore the clear sailing that many newspaper-owning families enjoyed for generations.
Mark Hahn is a managing director and founder of Graphic Arts Advisors, a boutique strategic financial advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries. With more than 35 years of graphic communications experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, M&A, and general management, Hahn has served as chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other senior positions with several commercial printing companies, as well as founding and eventually selling his own printing company.The firm assists company owners and management, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers and acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure and funding, financial analysis, interim and turnaround C-level management, business valuations and serving as consulting experts. Hahn is the author of The Target Report and is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals. Mark Hahn can be reached at (973) 588-7399 or mark@graphicartsadvisors.com
