# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S580
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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580 PUBLICATION MATTERS

VII. PUBLICATION MATTERS

Report of Concordia Publishing House

(Report 701)

It is a pleasure to report that the Lord has again blessed the
activities of Concordia Publishing House during the past triennium.
Under the faithful and efficient management of Mr. O. A. Dorn,
Litt. D., our operations have been expanded in every direction so
that the total volume for the current triennium will be approxi-
mately $16,500,000, or about $4,200,000 greater than for the previous
triennium.

We gratefully acknowledge the good will and hearty support of
the pastors, teachers, and members of Synod, for it is due to their
loyalty and co-operation that Concordia Publishing House has
been able to grow so successfully.

As authorized by the Houston Convention, we have completed
the construction of a fourth floor on one of our factory buildings.
This floor will be used exclusively for office purposes and will give
us an opportunity to concentrate in one area, for greater efficiency,
all office operations which heretofore had to be placed in various
corners of the seven buildings comprising Concordia Publishing
House. The addition of this new area has also added storage space
for our expanded activities as well as better sales areas adjacent
to our store for the Music, Visual Aids, and Ecclesiastical Arts
Departments.

‘The construction program also included air-conditioning the
new office, the store, and the Offset Press Department. Because of
limited parking facilities in our neighborhood it was necessary to
provide a parking area. Although the space acquired is not suffi-
cient to accommodate all the cars of our. employees, it has relieved
congestion in the immediate vicinity of our buildings.

Much talked-of automation has been in operation in our plant
for a number of years. Modern methods and systems have been
instituted in various departments. Improved and faster equipment
for printing and binding has been installed. During the summer of
this year we plan to install electronic equipment for orders, billing,
inventory control, and sales analysis.

Our increased volume has enabled us to transfer to the synod-
ical treasury a total of $900,000 during the triennium.

Visitors to the Concordia Publishing House plant and offices
frequently remark concerning the fine morale and decorum of the
employees. It is gratifying to report that we have in our employ
a large number of sincere and consecrated Christian workers, who
have a deep interest in their church. At the end of the previous