Company type | Family-owned |
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Industry | Media |
Founded | 1948 |
Defunct | 2007 |
Fate | Assets acquired by Heartland Publications [1] |
Headquarters | Spartanburg, South Carolina |
Key people | Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president |
Products | Newspapers |
Website | midsouthmanagement.com |
Mid-South Management Company Inc. was a family-owned, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based publisher of small to medium market newspapers [2] in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The company was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications. [3]
In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc. [4]
In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher. [5]