Maxim on the move

Is this a good or a bad thing? I'll let you be the judge of that.



‘Maxim’ magazine moves offices to Franklin, Tennessee

Alpha Media Group, the company that produces Maxim and Blender magazines, is moving its back-office operations from New York City to Franklin.

Alpha CEO Stephen Duggan said the company's finance, manufacturing, distribution, office services and digital technology divisions will move into a floor at the Dover Center on Seaboard Lane in December.
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Print, sales, marketing and most of the magazine group’s creative team will remain in New York.

Maxim is among the most successful young men’s lifestyle magazines in the country, reaching more than 12.5 million readers each month. Music magazine Blender reaches about 2 million readers monthly. Alpha also produces stuffmagazine.com and two other Web sites visited by about 5 million users a month.

High rental costs in midtown Manhattan are part of what pushed Alpha to leave the Big Apple, Duggan said. The company, which announced layoffs earlier this year, looked at Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Texas; and several other cities before choosing Franklin.