Our Commitment

At AHIM, we are steadfast in our commitment to elevate the well-being of Our People, wholeheartedly pursue Our Mission, and consistently enhance the quality of Our Products. Our ultimate objective is to Clear The Path, ensuring a seamless and effortless experience for all.

We wake up with the mindset to Clear the Path to Make it Easy for our talented advertisers to do business with us, our valued homeowners to make the decision, our creative suppliers to bring our magazines to mailboxes, and the other 240 committed employees that hit their pillow that night knowing they did.

Our main commitment as a company has always been to Our People. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace culture that values and supports our team members in the dynamic realm of home improvement advertising. Our aim is to provide an inclusive, welcoming, and empowering environment where individuals can thrive, express their creativity, and contribute to delivering exceptional print, digital, email, and social media advertising experiences to our clients.

Embedded in Our Mission is a commitment to customer service excellence. Our Customer Service Vision is to clear the path and make it easy for our clients and team members. We strive to streamline the home improvement advertising process, providing seamless experiences that remove obstacles and facilitate a straightforward journey for our customers and teams.

Focusing on Our Products involves a commitment to quality and responsibility in the home improvement advertising sector. We uphold strict standards for creative excellence and continually seek opportunities to enhance the sustainability of our advertising materials. Collaborating with industry experts, we identify best practices and hold ourselves and our suppliers accountable, promoting ethical business practices and responsible sourcing of materials.

Our journey involves Bringing People Together – not only within our company but also within the communities we serve and the broader advertising industry. We acknowledge our inherent responsibilities and take pride in sharing the progress we have made. Through collaborative efforts, we aim to create positive impacts, forge connections, and contribute to a more vibrant and sustainable future in the world of home improvement advertising.

Everything begins with the Customer, we're here to serve them - otherwise we have no purpose as an organization. 

At AHIM, we acknowledge a "Day in the Life" of our customers. It is but a glimpse into the daily struggles our customer, the super-busy, local, small business owner faces.  For those of us that have never walked in those shoes it's an incredibly powerful glimpse of the struggles they face.  For those that have walked in those shoes, you'll find yourself nodding along with Brad, our local business owner, as he navigates the rollercoaster of his day.

Working to be Greener

Being Green. This way of living means many different things to many different people. The act of being green, by nature, is the concept of being ecologically responsible while living our everyday lives - and certainly being better for it. It also means curbing our carbon footprint on this one earth we live. We are changing the way we discard items. We are made aware of better fuel consumption. We are even very conscious about the type of building products we put into our homes - to name a very small few.

Being Green to TheHomeMag also means many things, but can be summed up in a simple single sentence: for every tree consumed in the creation of our magazines, we want two planted in its place. The thought of a magazine - a paper magazine no less - being green doesn't exactly scream "wow" in the world's green effort. However, I would like to take this time to educate all of our readers and our advertisers on the efforts that we, through our manufacturing and print partner, take on a regular basis to ensure a greener and more vibrant earth remains abundant a bit longer.  

Our Printer Partners have aggressive environmentally proficient habits of operating, and so too do the paper mills that regularly produce magazine and book paper. To name them all would be lengthy, but I will elaborate on a few key outstanding practices. 

Certification in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which verifies the printer is part of the Chain of Custody from the forest to the printer, and ultimately into your mailbox via TheHomeMag. 

The paper that the TheHomeMag uses is Sustained Forestry Initiative certified. Paper mills throughout the US will voluntarily join the SFI and commit a portion of their revenue toward the replanting of trees - thus creating a sustainable environment. Additionally, the printers accomplish a 98% solvent recovery efficiency system in their printing facilities throughout the US. Basically, the potentially harmful waste emissions are being captured and cleaned before leaving their plants. Just to note, the EPA requires a minimum efficiency of 92%. 

Finally, our printers only use ink comprised of a blend of corn, soy, and linseed oils - no animal or petroleum oils in your magazine. 

United States Postal Service, a core cooperative vendor with TheHomeMag, also has one of the most aggressive Green Initiatives in action today. For instance, the Postal Service uses a variety of alternative-fuel vehicles in its fleet. And, as always, electric-powered transportation is part of that mix. In fact, it has the single largest fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in the world. 

Also, more than 200,000 tons of wastepaper, cardboard, cans, plastics, and other materials are recycled annually through nationwide recycling and waste prevention programs. And to name a final two initiatives, the USPS is still upgrading their buildings to reduce energy use. The objective is to reduce their energy consumption by more than 30%. Plus, USPS delivers the mail in the most energy-efficient way possible—a third of their deliveries are made on foot.

Last, while I am confident that you will always enjoy receiving our magazine, I too am a realist. In the unlikely event that you do not keep our magazine and you wish to discard it, take comfort in knowing that TheHomeMag is 100% recyclable - despite the notion that a glossy magazine is not recyclable. In fact, if you wish to not receive the magazine in print format, but still want the benefit of our motivating home improvement ideas, we have a solution. Instead of landing in your mailbox each month, ask for it to land in your email box. Visit your local magazines website found in the Locations tab above to simply subscribe to the digital version. You may also ask to not receive the paper magazine here as well. Believe me: your digital version of TheHomeMag is as impressive as the paper magazine, simply without the paper and ink.

For every tree lost in the creation of our magazines; we want two planted in its place. The FSC, the Sustained Forestry Initiative, energy reduction, recycling, waste emission control - they all play a major role in replanting our landscape and keeping our air clean. This is our small, but important story in the human effort of environmental responsibility.