as tsx gvc industry newspapers and trade magazines founded march 23 1988 headquarters 1970 alberta street vancouver british columbia canada area served western canada key people sam grippo chairman jonathon j.l. kennedy ceo orest smysnuik cfo products times colonist six other daily newspapers and more than 60 weekly newspapers ; canadian industry trade publications and databases revenue c 242 million 2010 number of employees 2 000 2011 divisions business and professional information group newspaper group trade information group subsidiaries alta newspaper group 59 % continental newspapers 27.6 % great west newspapers 50 % risn operations 50 % website www.glaciermedia.ca footnotes references 1 glacier media inc. is a canadian publicly owned publisher of daily newspapers in british columbia and weekly newspapers trade magazines and business information products throughout western canada . it is headquartered in vancouver . the company is also part owner of four other newspaper publishers . contents 1 history 2 daily newspapers 3 weekly newspapers 3.1 alberta 3.2 british columbia 3.3 manitoba 3.4 quebec 3.5 rhode island 3.6 saskatchewan 4 trade publications 5 references 6 external links history edit though it is now exclusively focused on media and databases glacier was a distributor of bottled water for its first 10 years from 1988 to 1997 under the name cambridge resources ltd. the company s name changed to glacier ventures international corp. in august 1997 and it exited the water business the next year . glacier media adopted its current name in 2008 . 1 throughout the early 2000s the company invested in several agricultural and business publications and entered the general interest newspaper business in early 2004 with the acquisition of boundary publishers group a chain of weekly newspapers in saskatchewan followed in the next 12 months by three more purchases pasquia publishing weyburn review pennand inc. that made it the largest publisher of weeklies in the province . 2 glacier continued expanding its community newspaper holdings in 2005 6 gaining control of madison publishing group including business in vancouver and several suburban vancouver weeklies as well as several former properties of hollinger inc. including a 50 % interest in the great west chain of weeklies in alberta and full ownership of several weeklies in british columbia and glacier s first daily newspapers in british columbia and in quebec . 3 hollinger s assets also included several industry publications that expanded glacier s trade information division including the western producer and daily oil bulletin . in all glacier paid about 180 million for the former hollinger assets . 4 late in 2006 glacier entered into a partnership with david radler a former hollinger executive to sell the chain s lone quebec holding the record of sherbrooke . glacier became a 50 % later 59 % shareholder in radler s privately held company alta newspaper group . 5 subsequent months saw glacier invest in two other companies with ties to radler continental newspapers ltd. publisher of three dailies in british columbia and ontario and risn operations a chain of three dailies and several weeklies in rhode island united states . by mid 2008 glacier owned 27.6 % and 50 % shares respectively in these companies . 1 continental is the successor to horizon operations canada a company owned by radler ; his daughter melanie is president of risn . 6 black press the largest publisher of weeklies in british columbia purchased 11 glacier newspapers that competed with its own weeklies in mid 2010 including the nelson daily news and prince rupert daily news both of which black closed immediately . the sale also included the trail daily times and several weeklies in the kootenays region of british columbia . 7 glacier also sold the cranbrook daily townsman and kimberley daily bulletin to an independent buyer who sold them on to black a year later . 8 glacier purchased its largest newspaper the times colonist of victoria british columbia in an 86.5 million deal in 2011 . the deal which included two other daily newspapers and 20 weeklies formerly held by postmedia network solidified glacier as one of the leading newspaper publishers in british columbia although it did not include either of postmedia s vancouver dailies . 9 daily newspapers edit glacier owns the times colonist the leading daily newspaper of british columbia s capital city and two other daily newspapers throughout the province . alaska highway news of fort st. john and dawson creek the prince george citizen of prince george times colonist of victoria through its joint ventures glacier is also part owner of daily newspapers in alberta lethbridge herald and medicine hat news arizona yuma sun british columbia the daily courier and penticton herald california porterville recorder ontario the chronicle journal rhode island the call kent county daily times and the times and quebec the record . weekly newspapers edit alberta edit main articles alta newspaper group and great west newspapers glacier is part owner of more than 30 weekly newspapers in alberta through its 59 % investment in alta newspaper group which owns seven weeklies in the lethbridge medicine hat area and its half ownership share in great west newspapers which owns two dozen weeklies in the edmonton and calgary areas . british columbia edit glacier newspapers in british columbia include several daily newspapers see above . weekly newspapers owned by glacier are 10 bridge river lillooet news burnaby now coast reporter tri city news delta optimist north shore news powell river peak real estate weekly richmond news new westminster record squamish chief vancouver courier westender westerly news whistler question manitoba edit glacier newspapers in manitoba are 11 deloraine times & star melita new era neepawa press nickel belt news the reminder reston recorder souris plaindealer thompson citizen virden empire advance westman journal quebec edit through its 59 % interest in alta newspaper group glacier owns part of two english language weekly newspapers associated with the record in sherbrooke quebec . rhode island edit glacier is half owner of risn operations which publishes several weekly newspapers in the united states state of rhode island . saskatchewan edit glacier newspapers in saskatchewan are 12 assiniboia times the battlefords news optimist canora courier carlyle observer estevan lifestyles estevan mercury hudson bay post review humboldt journal kamsack times the kipling citizen the la ronge northerner the news review the outlook the parkland review pipeline news preeceville progress redvers optimist southeast trader express the tisdale recorder weyburn review yorkton this week glacier also owns a 59 % interest in alta newspaper group which owns four weeklies in southwestern saskatchewan . trade publications edit glacier s holdings also include several publications and publishing groups that cater to businesses or consumers such as 13 business information group canada s largest publisher of trade magazines . farm business communications canada s largest agricultural publisher . junewarren nickle s energy group canada s leading publisher of print and online resources for the oil gas construction and alternative energy industries . business in vancouver a weekly business newspaper . real estate weekly a homes weekly based in vancouver . the visitor s choice a tourist magazine in vancouver . the western investor a commercial and industrial real estate publication . the western producer western canada s largest weekly farm newspaper . references edit a b c glacier media inc. annual information form pdf . sedar.com pdf . march 31 2011 . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier reports 2004 year end results pdf . glaciermedia.ca pdf . march 28 2005 . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier reports 2005 year end results pdf . glaciermedia.ca pdf . march 31 2006 . retrieved march 13 2012 . daly john june 27 2008 . this is what value looks like . the globe and mail . toronto . retrieved march 13 2012 . canwest news service october 24 2006 . radler returns to his roots with purchase of sherbrooke record . canada.com . retrieved march 13 2012 . radler quietly building local media empire . national post . toronto . july 14 2007 . retrieved march 13 2012 . the canadian press july 12 2010 . black press closes two daily newspapers in b.c. . toronto star . retrieved march 13 2012 . black press buys cranbrook kimberley dailies . the morning star . vernon b.c. july 22 2011 . retrieved march 12 2012 . freeman sunny october 18 2011 . glacier media to acquire b.c. papers from postmedia for 86.5 million . canadian business . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier media group british columbia . glaciermedia.ca . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier media group manitoba . glaciermedia.ca . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier media group saskatchewan . glaciermedia.ca . retrieved march 13 2012 . glacier media group trade information . glaciermedia.ca . retrieved march 13 2012 . external links edit glacier media v t e glacier media publications alaska highway news dawson creek daily news the prince george citizen times colonist glacier newspaper group weekly newspapers glacier trade information group subsidiaries alta newspaper group 59 % continental newspapers 27.6 % great west newspapers 50 % risn operations 50 % retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title glacier media & oldid 710764897 categories glacier mediacompanies listed on the toronto stock exchangenewspaper companies of canadacompanies based in vancouver navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links 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