Valassis Communications, Inc. · Livonia, MI United States ·(NYSE: VCI)

Valassis Communications offers door-to-door marketing without taking a toll on its shoes. A leading producer of newspaper inserts, Valassis sells space for advertising and coupons in its four-color booklets (accounting for about half of sales), which are distributed to some 60 million households through about 750 Sunday newspapers. Outside the US, Valassis produces the Shop & Save insert, which reaches about 5 million Canadian households. Valassis acquired direct mail marketing leader ADVO in 2007 for about $1.2 billion. The deal creates a giant in the marketing services industry, serving more than 15,000 advertisers worldwide with operations in more than 20 US states and nine other countries. To read the full description, subscribe now.