SEAFORD — The Sussex Printing Corp., longtime writer of regional categorised and promoting publication The Information, has been offered to a multi-state media firm targeted on buying local-recognized manufacturers.

O’Rourke Media Group acquired the corporate, together with its plant in Seaford, The Information and its related web site as of March 31. The property sale was recorded at $1 million, in response to Sussex County deeds. O’Rourke Media Group took over the corporate as of April 1 and retained the present 50 staff.

“I’m excited to welcome The Information and all of their staff into our firm,” O’Rourke Media Group CEO Jim O’Rourke mentioned in a press release. “As I studied this Delmarva market and received to know Amy and Tim, the present homeowners, I simply received an increasing number of enthusiastic about this firm. The Information has a powerful model and aligns properly to our development technique because it pertains to print promoting, printing & design, and digital. We’re charged as much as work with the crew on increasing our digital enterprise and company within the state of Delaware, and we love the market’s proximity to Philadelphia, South New Jersey and Maryland.”  

O’Rourke Media Group at present operates in six states with a full-service digital company and 23 publications and hyperlocal web sites. Since launching in 2018, the corporate owns property, together with many neighborhood newspapers in Arizona, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Minnesota and Vermont.  

Outlined on its web site, the O’Rourke Media Group’s enterprise technique is to transition local people newspapers and publications to a web based platform. Its main income is promoting print and digital promoting and advertising and marketing options to native companies. Goal acquisitions embody firms with established manufacturers, constructive money circulation and a wholesome base of advertisers.

Based in 1959, Sussex Printing Corp. is a full-service, family-owned printing firm, dealing with merchandise that vary from enterprise playing cards, brochures, contracts, menus, books and extra. It additionally serves as a weekly categorised advertiser on the Delmarva peninsula via its two publications: The Information and The Maryland Information. Each publications are delivered to 1,500 places throughout each Delaware and Maryland.

Amy Higgins, who owned the Sussex Printing Corp. with Timothy E. Ayers, was the third-generation proprietor of the enterprise till the sale. In a 2016 interview with the Delaware Enterprise Instances, Higgins acknowledged that lots of the Sussex Printing Corp.’s advertisers “held prime web page positions each week for almost 30 years,” indicating The Information’s energy within the southern Delaware market.