Contract Manufacturing and Packaging Magazine CONTACT SALES
The official publication for CPA, the Association
for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers
Each issue of Contract Manufacturing and Packaging is distributed to 15,000 contract packagers and manufacturers.
This publication will be polybagged with Packaging World and distributed three times per year:
- April
- August
- December
- Annual Resource Guide - Included with the purchase of a ½ page or larger in all three issues, you get a complimentary full-page profile in the Resource Guide(see price for non-qualifying advertisers). This special section features solutions for contract packagers and manufacturers.
- Full-page company profile
- Company description
- Contact information
- Two product images
- Full-page company profile
- Annual Resource Guide - Included with the purchase of a ½ page or larger in all three issues, you get a complimentary full-page profile in the Resource Guide(see price for non-qualifying advertisers). This special section features solutions for contract packagers and manufacturers.
Our new and improved audience includes only actual contract manufacturers and packagers looking for machinery and materials solutions for their operations.
Sales Reps Should Keep the Following in Mind:
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Content strategy and reach – Standalone CM&P Magazine
The readers of the standalone publication will be contract manufacturers & packagers. The advertisers would be machinery and materials suppliers—pretty much who advertises currently. These advertisers should be happier because it is a purer, bigger audience versus what they were buying before.
- Old circ: 9,082 contract packagers (Dec. 2021 issue of CP)
- 2022 circ: 18,000 contract packagers (April 2022 issue of CM&P)
- New circ: 15,000 contract packagers (starting April 2023)
Resource guide and directory
The existing directory, which runs in the winter issue, combines CPA members as well as associate/supplier members. Because we are altering the print circulation of the standalone CM&P Magazine to consist solely of contract manufacturers & packagers, the winter issue of CM&P Magazine will just list the Associate members only, since they want to be seen by CM&Ps. (We’ll continue to boldface advertisers in the issue.)
Separately, we’ll take the CPA member list (just the members, the CM&P’s, not the associate members/OEMs) and publish it in the June issue of Packaging World. Contract manufacturer & packager advertisers in that issue will be boldfaced in the directory, a nifty benefit for contract packagers who want to advertise with us.