Welcome

Village Press is your single-source for marketing execution.

Our industry-leading skills in publishing, food marketing, and customer relationship management produce results – improved sales and profits – for our clients. Better yet, we are vertically integrated with extensive data management skills and printing services to create unparalleled speed for our customers. Village Press is a unique combination of magazine publisher, direct mail expert, fulfillment specialist, data manager, and printing company.

Why Village?:

• For Foodservice Marketers, Village Press is the only fully-integrated marketing fulfillment supplier in the industry today. We invite you to talk to our customers and hear of the many marketing and cost breakthroughs we have helped them achieve!
• For Associations, Companies and Entrepreneurs in need of a custom publisher, Village Press is the only fully-integrated publisher. We have launched numerous paid-circulation magazines. We can help find the readers, and utilize the best direct marketing techniques to generate and renew subscribers. We've helped many association publishers re-design their operations, and their publications to generate greater reader interest and more advertising dollars.
• For our Printing Clients, our integrated marketing services help deliver a level of expertise our competition doesn't even understand.

Our Mission:

Village Press creates lifetime relationships with its customers by providing industry-leading value, responsiveness and marketing execution in the foodservice, publishing and commercial printing industries. As a result, Village Press is able to provide superior return on investment to its stakeholders, and solid career opportunities to committed, qualified, customer-driven employees.

Our Vision...

For Our Customers:

• We have intimate knowledge of customer needs.
• We provide single-source solutions matching our customers' needs.
• We are an industry-leading value proposition.
• We deliver superior responsiveness, and timely, precise, surprise-free execution.

For our employees:

• We provide fact-based performance feedback.
• We deliver a safe, productive, motivating work environment.
• Our compensation and benefits are competitive.
• Our culture fosters dignity and respect.

For our owners:

• We deliver a results-driven culture.
• We deliver a safe, superior return on investment.
• We have a solid reputation in our community and industry.

Leadership at Village Press:

As leaders, we deliver "vision." Vision is two things: seeing the business as it is and seeing it better than it is; we see a compelling future. We "bring certainty to the table." We are bigger than any situation. We take action. We create momentum because, in our efforts to create a secure future and continuous improvement, momentum is everything.

History:

Bob Goff relocated to Traverse City from Lansing, MI, to start Village Press in 1969. Soon, thereafter, Chef Pierre asked Village Press to become a specialist in foodservice printing and fulfillment for the local pie manufacturer. Sara Lee purchased Chef Pierre, and Sara Lee continues as one of Village Press's greatest success stories today. Village Press's niche publishing operation started in the early 70's with "Live Steam" magazine, and has grown to eight magazines. Village Press's first custom publication, "ABS" for the American Bonanza Society, didn't happen until 1995. Village Press grew "ABS" advertising by almost 500%. There are over 30 custom publications produced, edited, designed, printed and distributed at Village Press today.