Standard Gravure (original) (raw)
Standard Gravure was a Louisville, Kentucky rotogravure printing company founded in 1922 by Robert Worth Bingham and owned by the powerful Bingham family. For decades, it printed the weekly as well as rotogravure sections for other newspapers as well as Parade. It was believed to be more profitable than the daily papers owned by Bingham. By the 1980s, a shrinking print market had reduced revenues, and an employee wage freeze was instituted by then President William E. Bockmon in 1982. The company had 531 employees at two plants at the time of the sale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Standard Gravure was a Louisville, Kentucky rotogravure printing company founded in 1922 by Robert Worth Bingham and owned by the powerful Bingham family. For decades, it printed the weekly as well as rotogravure sections for other newspapers as well as Parade. It was believed to be more profitable than the daily papers owned by Bingham. By the 1980s, a shrinking print market had reduced revenues, and an employee wage freeze was instituted by then President William E. Bockmon in 1982. In 1986, Bingham family patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. announced the family would sell all their media holdings including Standard Gravure. The employees of Standard Gravure made a bid to buy the company, but it was sold instead to Michael Shea from Atlanta, Georgia for 22million.Afterthesaletheemployeeslearnedthat22 million. After the sale the employees learned that 22million.Afterthesaletheemployeeslearnedthat11 million of their employee pension fund had been used to help finance Shea's purchase. The company had 531 employees at two plants at the time of the sale. On September 14, 1989, Standard Gravure came to national attention when Joseph T. Wesbecker, an employee on disability leave, entered the plant with several firearms and fired at employees for thirty minutes, injuring twelve and killing eight plus himself. Standard Gravure closed in February 1992, after two serious fires. The building, at 6th and Broadway and part of the Courier-Journal complex, was demolished and became a parking lot. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 6191334 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 2503 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1044614009 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Robert_Worth_Bingham dbr:Louisville,_Kentucky dbr:Standard_Gravure_shooting dbr:Joseph_Wesbecker dbc:Mass_media_companies_disestablished_in_1992 dbc:The_Courier-Journal dbr:Parade_(magazine) dbc:1992_disestablishments_in_Kentucky dbc:Defunct_companies_based_in_Louisville,_Kentucky dbr:Atlanta,_Georgia dbc:Mass_media_companies_established_in_1922 dbc:Printing_companies_of_the_United_States dbr:Disability_insurance dbc:1922_establishments_in_Kentucky dbr:Rotogravure dbr:Courier-Journal dbr:The_Courier-Journal_Magazine |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Cite_encyclopedia dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description |
| dct:subject | dbc:Mass_media_companies_disestablished_in_1992 dbc:The_Courier-Journal dbc:1992_disestablishments_in_Kentucky dbc:Defunct_companies_based_in_Louisville,_Kentucky dbc:Mass_media_companies_established_in_1922 dbc:Printing_companies_of_the_United_States dbc:1922_establishments_in_Kentucky |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Louisville |
| rdf:type | yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Company108058098 yago:Group100031264 yago:Institution108053576 yago:Organization108008335 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Organisation yago:SocialGroup107950920 yago:WikicatDefunctCompaniesBasedInLouisville,Kentucky |
| rdfs:comment | Standard Gravure was a Louisville, Kentucky rotogravure printing company founded in 1922 by Robert Worth Bingham and owned by the powerful Bingham family. For decades, it printed the weekly as well as rotogravure sections for other newspapers as well as Parade. It was believed to be more profitable than the daily papers owned by Bingham. By the 1980s, a shrinking print market had reduced revenues, and an employee wage freeze was instituted by then President William E. Bockmon in 1982. The company had 531 employees at two plants at the time of the sale. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Standard Gravure (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Standard Gravure yago-res:Standard Gravure wikidata:Standard Gravure https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4vkgc |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Standard_Gravure?oldid=1044614009&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Standard_Gravure |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:September_14 dbr:Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(Stockton) dbr:Standard_Gravure_shooting dbr:History_of_Louisville,_Kentucky dbr:The_Courier-Journal |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Standard_Gravure |