Sandhills Publishing Company
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Sandhills Publishing Company is a privately held American magazine publishing company. It publishes trade and consumer publications for the computer, trucking, aircraft, and heavy machinery industries. Its monthly technology-themed publications are Computer Power User ("CPU"), SmartComputing (formerly known as PC Novice), PC Today and First Glimpse (formerly known as CE Lifestyles). Its trade publications are Processor, Controller, Executive Controller, CharterHub, TractorHouse, Machinery Trader and Truck Paper. Sandhills also produces an occasional SmartComputing reference series publication. Discontinued publications include PC Modder, the former CPU reference series.
The company was first established by Tom and Rhonda Peed as "Peed Corp." in 1978 in Webster City, Iowa. In 1985, the headquarters were relocated to a 68-acre campus in the Highlands neighborhood of Lincoln, Nebraska, where they remain. There are currently three buildings on the campus. In June 2000, Sandhills added a data redundancy center in Scottsdale, Arizona. According to the company's web site, Sandhills has approximately 330 employees.
[edit] External links
[edit] Official site
- Sandhills Publishing Company Homepage
- Company history; info about Lincoln facilities
- Page about Arizona facility
- Page describing Sandhills' publications
- TractorHouse
[edit] Other
- "Alumni give Sandhills a firm foundation", NU College of Journalism & Mass Communications - Alumni News, Spring 1999, University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications