Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) is an American
media
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corporation based in
Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel as
Universal Press Syndicate and was renamed in 1997 to AMU to reflect the diversification that had taken place since its founding. It now has the following subdivisions:
*
Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly
Universal Uclick
Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...
), which includes
GoComics
*
Andrews McMeel Publishing (established 1973)
* AMUSE (Andrews McMeel Universal Syndicated Entertainment)
Headquarters
The company headquarters is located in
downtown Kansas City,
Missouri
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in the historic
Boley Building. The six-story steel frame building was constructed in 1909 and was designed in the
Art-Nouveau style by architect
Louis Curtiss. The building is notable for being one of the world's first metal-and-glass curtain-wall buildings and the first to use rolled-steel columns.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1971.
References
External links
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Mass media companies established in 1970
Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri
1970 establishments in Missouri
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