Casa Grande Valley Newspapers

Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. is a privately owned and operated newspaper and commercial printing company located in Casa Grande, Arizona. It publishes a daily newspaper, five weekly newspapers and six specialty publications. www.trivalleycentral.com and www.copamonitor.com are the company's online versions of its newspapers. Its flagship daily newspaper, the Casa Grande Dispatch, is published Tuesday through Sunday mornings. The Dispatch turned 100 years old in January 2012, and is Casa Grande's oldest business in operation. Founded in 1912 by Evans T. Richardson, the newspaper was purchased by Ruth and Donovan M. Kramer Sr. in 1962, and CGVNI is one of the area's largest employers. The Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune, the company’s oldest newspaper, has been part of the fabric of Florence since 1892. The Coolidge Examiner was first published in 1930 – 15 years before the city of Coolidge incorporated. The Kramer family purchased the newspapers in Eloy, Florence and Coolidge in 1967, 1970 and 1971, respectively, and over the next few decades purchased and consolidated the two newspapers in Arizona City, and started the Maricopa Monitor. They also own the White Mountain Independent and www.wmicentral.com, covering Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, Springerville, St. Johns and Snowflake. The Wampum Saver, delivered on Tuesdays provides advertisers added value by covering the market with a shopper format. The TV Roundup is the company’s weekly television tabloid distributed each Saturday in the Casa Grande Dispatch. It contains broadcast, cable and satellite channels for Phoenix and the Casa Grande Valley as well as plenty of local advertising. Each month, Realtors and affiliated businesses “reach out” through the Pinal Real Estate Buyers’ Guide, which is distributed to 120+ locations in the Tri-Valley area and available online at www.trivalleycentral.com Pinal Ways, the company’s countywide quarterly magazine, features people, places and events.