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Time Inc. Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) Records

Call Number

MS 3009-RG 54

Date

1985, inclusive

Creator

Time, inc. (Role: Creator)

Extent

1 Linear feet in 1 record carton

Language of Materials

The materials in the collection are in English.

Abstract

Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) was a company owned by Time Inc. that produced reports on the sale of consumer goods and offered them for sale by subscription. The collection consists of examples of these reports and correspondence.

Historical Note

Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) was founded by J. Clarke Mattimore, a consultant in the Time-Life Broadcast division, in 1965 to measure the sale of products by tracking inventory in wholesale warehouses. Reports produced from this information were offered for sale by subscription to consumer-goods manufacturing companies. Time Inc. Sold SAMI in 1987.

Citations:

Associated Press. "Time Will Sell SAMI-Burke to Control Data." Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1987, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-14-fi-9248-story.html.

Prendergast, Curtis, and Geoffrey Colvin. 1986. Time Inc.: The Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise, 1960-1980. New York: Atheneum.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically based on the original arrangement.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of reports on product re-stocking at retail warehouses and correspondence with paying subscribers to these reports.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials in this collection are stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.

Open to qualified researchers with the exception of restricted materials. Restricted materials include contracts. Restricted materials are located in box R86.

Conditions Governing Use

Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff.

Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.

Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions

Preferred Citation

This record group should be cited as Time Inc. Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) Records, MS 3009-RG XX, New-York Historical Society.

Location of Materials

Materials in this collection are stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Time Inc. in 2015.

Related Materials

This finding aid relates to just one record group of the Time Inc. Records. For information about the other record groups and for overall information about the archives, please see the Guide to the Time Inc. Records (MS 3009). The Henry Luce Papers (MS 3014) were acquired with the Time Inc. Records. The collection of books acquired with the records are cataloged as the Time Inc. Reference Library.

Collection processed by

Allen Thomas

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-21 15:47:12 -0400.
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Language: Description is in English

Processing Information

The Time Inc. Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) Records were processed by Allen Thomas in 2020. The original folders were retained although some documents were transferred to archival containers in instances of overcrowding. Allen Thomas created the inventory and other descriptive notes to produce this finding aid.

Repository

New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024