To the people of the Carolinas, the name “IWANNA” is synonymous with classified advertising. Several years and several million ads have made it the area buyers’ choice in a way few people would have believed possible when its first edition came out in April 1976.
Katherine H. Corn and her late husband Bobby D. Corn started Iwanna, operating out of a small downtown Asheville, office and using an old Volkswagen Beetle to make deliveries. The concept of free classified ads caught on quickly.
Iwanna has experienced phenomenal growth over the years -- from a four page paper containing 59 classified ads to issues exceeding 300 pages with literally thousands of classified ads and thousands of column inches of display advertising. What was once a “little paper” quickly became the largest and most widely read weekly shopping guides in the Carolinas, serving Western North Carolina (WNC), the Western Piedmont of North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
Iwanna also publishes a WNC women’s magazine, Sophie, which operates out of the Asheville Iwanna facility.
Today Iwanna is owned and operated by Fayetteville Publishing Company, one of the nation’s oldest family-owned newspapers. Fayetteville Publishing Co. was established in 1923. It is one of Cumberland County’s largest private companies with about 400 employees in Fayetteville, NC. It operates several small publications in addition to The Fayetteville Observer. The Observer was established in 1816 and is the largest privately owned daily newspaper in North Carolina. For more information, see
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