http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-nya223464068sep22,0,1905261.story?coll=ny-business-print Company Profiles NYC 50 September 22, 2003 # 34 (of 50) WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY
OF NEW YORK
25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 11201
718-560-5000
www.watchtower.org
Revenue: $951 million
Industry: Publishing
CEO: Don Adams
Employees: 5,227 (all volunteers); local, 3,000
The Brooklyn print shop responsible for producing almost half of the books used by Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide will soon complete its final run. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York printery that has produced more than 1 billion books since 1927 is slated for closure now that printing, binding and shipping operations will be moved to a Walkill, N.Y., location. Walkill's new bindery equipment will be able to produce hardcover books and deluxe Bibles at a rate of 120 a minute.
In May, Watchtower announced plans to sell the 1-million-square-foot building - just one of the buildings in the Brooklyn waterfront complex. "Perhaps this building will be used by others in a way that is compatible with the Brooklyn waterfront development," said Robert Alexander, a spokesman for Watchtower. The organization headquarters will remain.
Watchtower says these changes will contribute to a streamlined flow of literature to its 12,000 congregations in the United States. The Jehovah's Witnesses' primary journal, The Watchtower, has an international circulation of 25 million in 147 languages.
# 34 in the Corporate World???
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Eyebrow2
ehh...doesn't really bother me too much...what do you expect? they need money to pay for those lame public service annoucements.