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Company Profiles NYC 50 September 22, 2003 # 34 (of 50)
WATCHTOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 25 Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, 11201 718-560-5000 www.watchtower.org
Revenue: $951 million Industry: Publishing CEO: Don Adams Employees:
5,227 (all volunteers); local, 3,000
The Brooklyn print shop responsible for producing almost half of the
books used by Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide will soon complete its
final run. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York printery
that has produced more than 1 billion books since 1927 is slated for
closure now that printing, binding and shipping operations will be
moved to a Walkill, N.Y., location. Walkill's new bindery equipment
will be able to produce hardcover books and deluxe Bibles at a rate of
120 a minute.
In May, Watchtower announced plans to sell the 1-million-square-foot
building - just one of the buildings in the Brooklyn waterfront
complex. "Perhaps this building will be used by others in a way that
is compatible with the Brooklyn waterfront development," said Robert
Alexander, a spokesman for Watchtower. The organization headquarters
will remain.
Watchtower says these changes will contribute to a streamlined flow of
literature to its 12,000 congregations in the United States. The
Jehovah's Witnesses' primary journal, The Watchtower, has an
international circulation of 25 million in 147 languages.