About Trofie
Trofie is an industry innovator with over a decade of experience in the fastest-growing media segments: out of home marketing and location-based advertising.
Trofie provides shopper marketing expertise including digital incentives, product sampling and demonstrations in key transportation venues like airports, turnpikes and commuter systems, as well as metro locations that include hotels, resorts, casinos, bookstores and newsstands, gift stores and specialty stores. And, Trofie offers extended marketing opportunities in fitness and health centers, airline seat-back TVs and urban cafes across the nation.
Trofie reaches the on-the-go, affluent consumer who eludes traditional media avenues. Using multiple touch points in each venue, Trofie converts browsers into buyers with targeted advertising messages and incentives at the time when they are most receptive to influence, motivated and ready to purchase.
Trofie, Trofie Book Promotions, Trofie Digital Advertising, and ViaTrofie, provide a comprehensive range of services and resources and offer fresh and original thinking that directly translates into increased sales and new revenue streams for clients.
Team Trofie
Christine Z. Crowley, CEO/Managing Partner
Christine is responsible for managing the partnerships with Trofie retailers, ensuring they each receive the best practices from Team Trofie’s multi-talented members, including the implementation of innovative marketing programs and cutting-edge technologies that reach and engage today’s on-the-go consumer. Trofie has expanded advertising and promotional options with initiatives that result in dramatic revenue increases for retailers and guaranteed reach for advertisers, delivering them one of the most desirable demographic groups on a daily basis.
Ph. (415) 331-3951 email: czcrowley@trofie.com
Paul J. Crowley, Partner/Creative Director
Paul’s creative imprint on the landscape environment of newsstands is recognized throughout the industry. With an extensive career in all facets of media from fine art to commercial broadcasting, Paul brings a rich and varied palette to client’s projects. A co-founder of Trofie, Paul designed the first reading centers for Safeway Supermarkets, Lucky Supermarkets, and magazine fixtures for Host, WHSmith, CA One, and Compass Books SFO and Downtown Disney. He is director of Digital Media at Trofie, creating high-impact and compelling graphics and digital video advertising.
Ph. (415) 331-3951 email: pjcrowley@trofie.com
Stacie Hedley, General Sales Manager
Stacie joined Trofie in 2001 following more than a decade with AOL/Time Warner. Her insight and strategic knowledge of the industry gives clients an inside edge in developing powerful and effective programs that meet and exceed their goals.
Stacie was named Trofie General Sales Manager in 2005. As GSM, she directs the development and implementation of Team Trofie’s high-performance marketing programs and is also responsible for research on potential new product launches for Trofie retailers. Stacie and Team Trofie work closely together to sell Trofie’ $10 million in promotional inventory annually.
Ph. (707) 935-9565 email: shedley@trofie.com
Jacqueline Tobin, Senior Marketing Manager, New York
Jackie brings Trofie clients 17 years of experience in creating successful national sales and marketing programs. Publishers wishing to penetrate US and Mexico airport and bookstore chains with improved sales and efficiencies rely on her expertise and depth of knowledge to design optimal strategies for their products.
Jackie was formerly with Time Warner Retail as Director of Sales for bookstores, terminal accounts and specialty markets. She directed national retail sales and marketing efforts for 300 of the nation's leading consumer publications and developed strategic programs with national retailers.
Ph. (201) 664-4496 email: jtobin@trofie.com
Terry Kraml, Marketing & Advertising Manager, Book Division, Chicago
Books often represent over 40 percent of a newsstand’s business, and Trofie clients look to Terry to apply the insight and industry acumen she has gained throughout her 20-plus year career to enhance their book business. Prior to joining Trofie, she was Book Transportation Manager for Chas. Levy Circulation Company in Chicago.
Terry has developed breakout marketing strategies to maximize key book categories nationwide. With smart buying and custom marketing campaigns that target the airport traveler, these programs generate powerful results for retailers. Trofie's progressive and unique sales opportunities are held in high esteem by the publishing community.
Ph. (847) 526-7776 email: tkraml@trofie.com
Marty Garchar, Operations Manager
Marty has spent over 30 years working with National Distributors, Publishers and Wholesalers, coordinating the efficient sale of hundreds of the best magazines published over those years. He has well-established, personal relationships with the wholesaler community in the US and Canada.
Marty's mission is to provide direct support of Trofie’s initiatives to increase the overall sales of magazines and books for retail clients. This includes: continuous monitoring of draws and net sales, ensuring every promotion is in place to maximize sales for the retailer and publisher, evaluating each market and making sure the best titles are in each location, and coordination of promotions between wholesalers and retailers. Ph. (510) 205-1005 email: mgarchar@trofie.com
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