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Bruh, can we get some cliffs?I know this guy he just died.
- George Valassis died Saturday in Jupiter, Fla.
- Toledo native started Valassis Communications in Oak Park in 1970
George Valassis
- Newspaper coupon and insert- and direct-mail company grew into one of world's largest
George Valassis, the "King of Coupons" and founder of the Livonia-based Valassis Communications Inc., died Saturday in Florida, according to a Florida funeral home. He was 89.
Valassis, a Toledo native born in 1929, built one of the largest newspaper coupon and insert- and direct-mail companies in the world. He started the company in 1970 in Oak Park. Its primary business came to be producing coupon inserts for newspapers, but it's also known as a pioneer in the industry.
The longtime businessman was very sick over the past year as kidney cancer spread to his liver, Valassis' wife, Sandra, told Crain's.
"He lasted a long time. I mean, he had his first operation in 1992," Sandra Valassis said. "So he was a fighter ..."
While he was in hospital, more than a dozen nurses found out about Valassis' printing company and came to his room to thank him for all the success they'd had couponing, Sandra Valassis said.
"He would laugh, he would get a real kick out of it" when he'd be recognized over the years for his Valassis Communications days, she said.
"The Valassis organization expresses its deepest sympathy to the family of George Valassis, a visionary who believed ordinary people could achieve extraordinary things, a belief we still hold true today," Valassis CEO Dan Singleton said in an emailed statement to Crain's.
When Valassis started the business — in his home — he was doing contract printing work for a variety of products. Two years later, in 1972, he "modernized — and nationalized — the coupon business" by inventing the free-standing insert, trade publication Printing Impressions reported in a 2000 feature.
"For the first time, coupon advertisers were offered a professional coupon program that had guaranteed publishing dates and market distribution (weekly distribution nationwide via Sunday newspapers)," Printing Impressions wrote. "Also, because of the cooperative nature of the insert, it was now affordable for advertisers to run a national coupon program."
Valassis sold the company in 1986 for nearly $400 million to Sydney, Australia-based Consolidated Press Holdings Ltd., which took it public in 1992, Crain's previously reported.
By the 1990s, Valassis came to own half of the nation's coupon market, but saw its core business erode as the daily newspaper industry rapidly began to decline. It struggled with its coupon business in the mid-2000s, and sought to diversify, branching into in-store marketing and investing in digital coupon services. It came to be known as a leader in online couponing, according to Printing Impressions.
In 2013-14, the company — then profitable with $2 billion in annual revenue — was sold to San Antonio-based Harland Clarke Holdings Corp.
At that time, an 85-year-old Valassis was maintaining homes in Clarkston and Manalapan, Fla., and investing in innovative products and ideas. The golf enthusiast then settled in Jupiter, Fla.
In recent years, Valassis invested in Advanced Power Control Solutions LLC, which created a retrofit system to allow coal-fired power plants to burn a mixture of natural gas and coal, a solution to both reduce emissions and help plants meet stringent federal environmental standards. Valassis also invested in football helmets aimed at better injury prevention.
Valassis graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business and engineering. He and his wife endowed four professorships in urology at the University of Michigan.
Visitation is planned for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Aycock-Riverside Funeral and Cremation Center in Jupiter, Fla. A memorial service will follow at 2 p.m.
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He came up with the idea of putting coupons in newspapers. He owned a couple country clubs I belonged to. Valassis - Wikipedia
He was a character. A really intense not always fun guy. Once he went to the swap shop and found some cheap loafers. He bought 100 pair and had them in the trunk of his Jag. He would hand them out to friends. I was never offered a pair for the record. He bought a house on Delray Beach after he left his wife for a younger bimbo. It was a few million. The realtor was a Fabio look a like. The guy drove an original Hummer. George made him include the Hummer in the sale of the house. Realtor agreed. That realtor went on to write a book about some of his oddball clients and he mentioned George and the Hummer. I think he said George was his hardest negotiator.
He did do one very kind thing I will never forget. I was away or something and missed the club championship sign up. I was the reigning club champ. He asked if I was signed up. I told him I missed it. He told the head pro to put me in. I won it that year again.
I will also never forget him being a jerk. He had some big shots in and was showing them around one of his clubs. I was helping him with a project. He thought it was taking to long and dressed me down in front of his guests. That was years ago and I still remember it.
Early 2000's, girlfriend wasn't home, I decided I was going to view some porn.
My porn vhs tapes were in my closet. You walk into my closest, clothes immediately to left, and immediately to the right. On top of each section is a shelf where I had the tapes. Instead of just, going into another room and getting a step ladder, I saw my girlfriend's big bouncy ball used for workout stuff. I said, "fuck it", and decided to try to use that as a ladder.
I'm on top of this bouncy ball doing my best to maintain balance. I start to lose my balance and instinctively grab onto one of the shelves.
The shelf bends, I lose my balance. As I am crashing onto the ball, the bounciness of the ball pushes me back up slightly, right onto incoming vhs tapes that are slowly sliding towards the middle of this shelf that's now bent in the middle. VHS tapes start hitting me one by one, right on the head. It's as if I was being mocked.
Anyways, this gif reminded me of that old story and I don't even think I got around to fapping that day I was too embarrassed and injured.
He invests that money back in the community by spending it on delivery pizza and Taco Bell.
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Lol @throbert
That kid looks like who
@Ricky Bobby thinks he is.