Walsworth Publishing Company

Walsworth[3] Publishing Company, among the 35 largest printing companies in the U.S., is headquartered in Marceline, Mo.

In 1937, Don Walsworth settled in Marceline to print playbills[4] with a borrowed typewriter and a mimeograph machine. Soon the product line expanded to include cookbooks and, following World War II, memorial books to honor those who had served.[5]

In 1947,[6] Walworth began to produce yearbooks. In 1970, the Commercial printing division was established to balance the cyclical yearbook[7] production schedule, adding textbooks, catalogs, magazines and other specialty publications to the Walsworth line.[8]

Walsworth is currently still a family-owned company that employs more than 1,250 people worldwide, and over 675 employees have attained Master Printer of America status.[9]

The company operates from administrative offices and printing and binding facilities in Marceline, Mo., a prepress facility in Brookfield, Mo., a sales and marketing office in Overland Park, Kan., and a printing facility in Saint Joseph, Mich. Additionally, Walsworth owns the Donning Company Publishers in Virginia Beach, Va., a specialty book publisher, and The Ovid Bell Press in Fulton, Mo., a printer of journals and magazines.[10]

In December 2019, the company announced plans to acquire the Wisconsin-based Ripon Printers.[11]

• Walsworth Publishing Company website