Steve Leach, Vice President, Retail Marketing, has responsibility for magazine sales through the drugstore, mass and specialty classes of trade - putting him in charge of the channels that have supplied most of the magazine industry’s recent growth. In addition to servicing these channels, sales team members under Leach’s direction market selected titles to non-traditional channels in order to broaden the exposure of magazines at the retail level.
Leach has held key sales and marketing management positions with a number of periodical marketers during a 24-year career in the industry. Before joining CMG as part of the company’s original executive team, Leach was a Vice President of Sales with Hearst Distribution Group, Inc. (HDG). Prior to that, he was Vice President and General Manager, Pacific Northwest Region, for Adams News/The News Group. He has also directed five regional offices for TV Guide Distribution, formerly Murdoch Magazine Distribution Division and served as Vice President of National Accounts for Time Distribution Services (TDS). He began his career as a district sales manager for American Greetings Corporation.
Leach was educated at the University of Illinois, and currently makes his home in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.