BUSINESS MEMO: PAGE IN ALL 50 STATES

Publishers Associated to Gain Economy (PAGE) Co-Op now includes newspaper in all 50 states, with the recent addition of the Miami News-Record in Miami, Okla.

The Southeast Missourian is a part of this national purchasing cooperative.

The PAGE milestones reached in December included the 300th daily newspaper and the 500th PAGE member.

Wally Lage, chief operation officer of Rust Communications and publisher of the Southeast Missourian, has been a PAGE director for more than a decade. He is also chairman of the Vendor Evaluation Committee.

The combined circulation of PAGE daily newspapers is close to 4.4 million with Sunday circulations exceeding 3.1 million. The combined circulation of PAGE non-daily members is more than 2.6 million.

Page Co-Op is owned equally and completely by its 148 member newspaper companies. PAGE negotiates pricing programs of newspaper supplies, equipment and systems and consulting services.