ACC Publishing

What ACC Publishing does

ACC Publishing, LLC is a privately held, founder-controlled company established in 1985 by Jeff Voelz in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, operating under the doing-business-as name American City Calendars. The company manufactures and sells wall calendars and monthly desk planners featuring original photography and regional event information for five major U.S. cities: Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Omaha. All calendars are printed, bound, and shipped from its Wisconsin facility using traditional offset and digital printing with finishing services including UV coating, foil stamping, spiral binding, and laminating.

The business operates two GTM motions. The first is direct-to-consumer via a Shopify storefront at $12.99 per calendar, with a 20% volume discount (promo code GET6SAVE20) for purchases of six or more. The second is B2B customized bulk orders with a 50-unit minimum, sold via direct sales (Mike at [email protected]), in which the business client's logo, contact information, and imagery are imprinted into a year-long calendar footer. The company also offers an integrated direct mail service that ships these customized calendars to end customers using the client's mailing list.

Revenue derives from one-time purchases across four streams: standard wall calendars, desk planners, customized bulk B2B orders, and the Color Quick Print subsidiary acquired in 2005, which provides full-service commercial printing (digital copying, wide format printing, graphic design, business cards, brochures, and specialty finishing). The company is privately held with no disclosed funding, serves a diversified mix of individual consumers and SMB clients, and operates at a small scale (11-50 employees).

Name

ACC Publishing

Legal name

ACC Publishing, LLC

Website

https://accpublishing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ACC Publishing, a privately held Wisconsin company founded in 1985, manufactures and sells original-photography event calendars and desk planners for five major U.S. cities via DTC e-commerce and customized B2B bulk orders with direct mail fulfillment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Calendar Publishing

NAICS

Office Supplies and Stationery Retailers (459410), Stationery Product Manufacturing (32223)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Calendars, Planners & Organization Supplies Retail (CRALABAJ)

Keywords

• Event calendars
• City calendars
• Desk planners
• Custom calendar printing
• Commercial printing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cerritos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Wall Calendar Sales: Direct-to-consumer and business sales of wall calendars featuring major American cities (Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Omaha). Each calendar priced at $12.99, with volume discounts available (20% off for 6+ calendars). Revenue is one-time per transaction with repeat purchase potential annually.
2. Customized Bulk Calendar Orders: B2B sales of customized calendars to business clients requiring minimum orders of 50 units. Calendars include business branding in footer (contact info, logos, pictures) visible year-long. Revenue per order is higher due to customization premium and volume.
3. Desk Planner Calendar Sales: Sales of Monthly Desk Planners priced at $12.99 each. These 14-month planners (December through January) feature two-page per month layouts with black leatherette covers.
4. Color Quick Print Services: Full-service printing services acquired in 2005, offering digital copying, wide format printing, graphic design, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, flyers, brochures, and specialty finishing services. Revenue from per-job service fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ACC Publishing manufactures and sells wall calendars featuring original photography and regional event information for major American cities (Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Omaha), along with monthly desk planners. The company also offers customized bulk calendar orders (minimum 50 units) with business branding in the calendar footer for promotional use, plus full-service commercial printing through its Color Quick Print subsidiary.

Product overview

ACC Publishing offers a portfolio of wall calendars and desk planners for major American cities, including Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Omaha. Each city-specific wall calendar contains beautiful original photography and regional event information with holidays. The company also manufactures monthly desk planners with a black leatherette cover. All calendars are manufactured, printed, bound, and shipped from Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The company also provides bulk customized ordering services where businesses can add their logo, contact information, and images to calendar footers for promotional purposes, with a minimum order of 50 units.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Chicago Event Calendar 2026 A wall calendar featuring beautiful original photography of Chicago with regional event information and holidays for 2026, priced at $12.99 and sold directly to consumers.
• Kansas City Event Calendar 2026 A wall calendar featuring original photography of Kansas City with regional event listings and holidays for 2026, priced at $12.99.
• Milwaukee Event Calendar 2026 A wall calendar featuring original photography of Milwaukee with regional event information and holidays for 2026, priced at $12.99.
• Minneapolis St. Paul Events Calendar 2026 A wall calendar featuring original photography of Minneapolis and St. Paul with regional event information and holidays for 2026, priced at $12.99.
• Omaha Events Calendar 2026 A wall calendar featuring original photography of Omaha with regional event information and holidays for 2026, priced at $12.99.
• Desk Planner Calendar 2026 A monthly desk planner calendar with a black leatherette cover, 14-month planning period (December through January), two-page per month format, sized at 16 3/4" x 10 7/8" when opened, priced at $12.99.
• Customized Bulk Calendar Orders B2B customized calendar orders for business clients with a minimum of 50 units. Calendars include the client's business logo, contact information, and pictures in a visible year-long footer for promotional and client retention purposes. Direct mail fulfillment service is available.
• Color Quick Print Services Full-service commercial printing service acquired by ACC Publishing in 2005, offering digital copying, wide format printing, graphic design, business cards, letterhead, envelopes, flyers, brochures, and specialty finishing services (gold/silver foil stamping, UV coating, spiral/comb binding, laminating).

Quantifiable outcome

• Year-round business branding visibility for clients
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Color Quick PrintcoreOthers · 1 January 2005ACC Publishing, LLC acquired Color Quick Print in 2005, establishing it as a full-service printing subsidiary. Color Quick Print operates as a comprehensive printing service offering digital copying, wide format printing, graphic design, and specialty finishing services. This acquisition expanded ACC Publishing's capabilities beyond calendar publishing into general commercial printing services, combining quality printing with attention to detail and customer service.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• TF Publishing: TF Publishing (operating under Calendar Holdings) produces a wide range of licensed and themed calendars sold through mass-market retail. It overlaps directly with ACC Publishing on wall calendars and bulk-customization offering.
• Workman Publishing: Workman Publishing produces a wide range of branded calendars and planners sold through US retail. Comparable as a publisher of premium, content-driven calendar SKUs that compete for similar retail and gift-channel shelf space.
• Lang Companies: Lang produces artist-designed calendars and gift stationery sold primarily through specialty and gift retailers. Comparable to ACC for themed, content-rich calendar products targeted at the consumer gifting market.
• BrownTrout Publishers: BrownTrout is the largest independent US calendar publisher, distributing thousands of titles across major retail and wholesale channels. It competes directly with ACC Publishing in the wall calendar category, though at materially larger scale.
• Andrews McMeel Publishing: Andrews McMeel publishes licensed-content calendars (Peanuts, Garfield, etc.) and books across major US retail. It is comparable as a calendar publisher that combines branded content with retail distribution, similar to ACC’s content-plus-photography model.
• Sellers Publishing: Sellers Publishing is a US-based independent calendar and book publisher producing themed and regional wall calendars and planners sold through retail and direct channels. It is the most comparable direct competitor in size and product mix to ACC Publishing.

Broad incumbents

• ACCO Brands: ACCO Brands owns legacy Mead and At-A-Glance planner/calendar brands and supplies office products through mass-market channels. It is comparable as a much larger incumbent in the desk planner and office calendar category where ACC also competes.

Others

• Hallmark: Hallmark is a major US greeting card, gift, and stationery brand. It does not directly compete in city calendars but is comparable as an adjacent player in seasonal consumer stationery and gifting categories where ACC operates.

Regional players

• Calendar Club: Calendar Club operates seasonal pop-up stores that retail third-party calendars across the US (including Midwest metros). Comparable as a calendar-focused retailer that overlaps with ACC Publishing in target consumer and metro markets.

Emerging players

• Quarto Group: Quarto produces specialty illustrated calendars and gift books through its publishing imprints. Comparable as an emerging player in niche, design-led calendar publishing relevant to ACC’s content-led positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/cityeventcalendars
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/acc-publishing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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