2. Which companies create magazines?
Here is a list of all of the magazine companies that were and are in the UK:
• A-Amalgamated Press • M-Maverick Magazines
• Argus Press • Moneyfacts
• B-Blackfish Publishing • Monkey magazine
• Boardman Books • Mortons of Horncastle
• Bourne Publishing Group • N-Nat Mags
• D-Dennis Publishing • Newhall Publications
• Dods (Group) PLC • N cont.Newsfield Publications
• E-EMAP Magazines • P-Pear Media
• F-Fleetway Publications • Purnell and Sons
• Future plc • R-Reed Business Information
• G-Galaxy Publications • T-The Raconteur
• I-Ian Allan Publishing • TNT (magazine)
• Imagine Publishing • U-United Advertising Publications
• I cont.Ink (company) • V-Very Nearly Almost
• IPC Media • W-William Reed Business Media
• J-John Brown Group • Y-Yudu Media
• K-Key Publishing
3. Who creates what? (Here are a few examples)
Smash
Hits
Top of the
BBC EMAP
Pops
Magazine
Companies
IPC Media
Bauer
NME
Q Magazine Kerrang
4. What types of magazine do these
companies produce?
There are a variety of magazine companies that create various
different magazines to be specific companies like:
• Future Publishing- It publishes more than 150 magazines
in fields such as video games, technology, automotive,
cycling, films and photography. For example: Tech Radars and Classic Rock
• IPC Media- IPC Media (formerly International Publishing
Corporation), a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a
consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United
Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million
copies each year. For example magazines like: Marie Claire and NME.
• EMAP Magazines- Emap International Limited is a British media
company, specialising in the production of business-to-business
magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences.
The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now
owned by Apax and Guardian Media Group. For example magazine like:
Nursing Times and Broadcast.
5. BBC
In my mind I feel that the BBC is one of the UK’s biggest magazine
distributers . This is because the BBC produce many magazine that are
suitable for various ages, they also cover different genres. For example
there are magazines for:
• Adults
• Teen
• Pre-teen
• Education
• Pre-School
Therefore because there are many magazine for different
demographics, the magazine would be read by a large audience.
6. How many magazines are sold?
Facts About Magazines:
• 2,600 magazines are sold every minute of every day in the UK
• People in the UK spend around £2 billion on magazines each year
• There are currently over 3,300 consumer magazines to choose from
• On average, each magazine is actually read for a total of 50 minutes
• 80% of all women regularly read a consumer magazine
• 67% of men regularly read a consumer magazine
• There are over 54,000 individual places to buy magazines in the UK
• In the decade since the dawn of the internet, consumer expenditure on
magazines has increased by 48%
• Consumer magazine sales have increased by 4.3% over the past 5 years
and the average UK adult now purchases almost 30 magazines each year
• More of the internet generation read consumer magazines than any other
age group
