Each day, newspapers drive millions of consumers into retail outlets. For many national retailers, the local newspaper is the primary link to the local community at the store level. And yet, the category is arguably the most challenging one for a retailer to manage effectively: Thousands of titles, thousands of vendors, zone prices under the same UPC, invisible margins and shrink.

iControl Systems solves this. A division of The Current Companies, primarily a periodical distribution and marketing company with decades of experience, iControl provides retailers and their newspaper vendors a cutting-edge, definitive, web-enabled solution that comprehensively encompasses all aspects of the category, from item-file set-up and maintenance, to allocation management, efficiencies, sell-out prevention, promotions, and of course, billing consolidation. With over 8,000 active accounts including CVS/pharmacy and Barnes & Noble, iControl is by a ratio of more than 2-to-1 the largest provider of newspaper billing consolidation services in North America, and the only one that builds, designs and maintains its technology on-site with on-staff programmers.

Our mission is simple: Provide our retail-partners with a long-term solution that guarantees them a thriving, measurable, and profitable newspaper category. And at the same time, conduct business in a manner that reflects our deep respect for both retailers and the newspaper publishing community; the hard working men and women who deliver newspapers daily, rain or shine; and ultimately and most importantly the millions of customers who consistently and habitually purchase and read newspapers bought at retail locations, each and every day.