Time Inc. Selling Areas-Marketing, Inc. (SAMI) Records
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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.
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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
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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.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Time Inc. in 2015.
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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.