Associated Publishing Company (APC), headquartered in Abilene, Texas, is an independent publisher of Area-Wide Phone Books and Area-Wide.Com, an online yellow page directory spanning 11 Texas markets.

Serving 74 counties and over one million people, APC remains among the larger independent phone book publishing companies in the state, printing and distributing over one million phone books for businesses and residents each year.

Since its beginnings in 1978, APC has seen a steady growth of sales and revenues and currently employs over 110 people statewide. APC maintains satellite sales offices in San Angelo, Midland, Laredo and College Station, Texas.

Area-Wide Phone Book markets include Abilene, San Angelo, Laredo Borderplex, Permian Basin (Midland/Odessa), Brazos Valley (Bryan/College Station), Heart O' Texas (Brownwood/Brady), Western Plains (Big Spring/Sweetwater, Snyder, Colorado City), Plainview, West of The Pecos (Alpine/Fort Stockton/Pecos) Big Country East (Albany/Breckenridge/Graham), Weatherford, and Stephenville (Stephenville, Erath County).

Area-Wide.Com is a full-service online yellow page directory serving businesses and residents throughout Texas. Area-Wide.Com provides online banner design, flash-animated advertising, and online yellow page listings containing interactive links to web sites, email addresses and audio/video products.

APC was acquired in 1994, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation. The Hearst Corporation is one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies. Its major interests include magazine, newspaper and business publishing, cable networks, television and radio broadcasting, Internet businesses, television production and distribution, newspaper features distribution, and real estate.