Jan 01, 2016

January 1980   The 50th anniversary issue of Advertising Age runs.

March 1980 »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿’s Cleveland Business debuts.

April 1983 Tire Business launches as an extension of Rubber & Plastics News, headquartered in Akron, Ohio, with Ernie Zielasko as the magazine’s editor and publisher.

1984 Urethanes Technology launches as a news source for the international polyurethane industry. It is based in the company’s London office.

January 1984 Crain Communications Inc’s newly owned Monthly Detroit hits newsstands. In 1988, »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ buys and folds Metropolitan Detroit, the magazine’s major competitor. Monthly Detroit is changed to Detroit Monthly in 1986 with the slogan, “Now we’re literally putting Detroit first.”

January 1985 »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿’s New York Business arrives off the presses. Following the tradition he had begun with »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿’s Chicago Business, Rance »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ passes out free first issues of the magazine during Midtown Manhattan rush hour.

February 1985 »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿’s Detroit Business launches, with Keith »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ as publisher and Peter Brown as editor.

September 1986 The magazine Creativity is introduced as a monthly addition to Advertising Age.

December 1987 Thirty-nine radio stations across the country, including WMAQ-AM Chicago and WXYT-AM Detroit, began running “»»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿’s Business Report,” a weekly half­-hour radio program composed of reports from »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ publications.

March 1989 Plastics News launches from Akron, Ohio, as a magazine dedicated to covering the global plastics industry.