Complete magazine publishers information

1. Information on Magazine
Publishers

2. Bauer Media Group
The Bauer Media Group is a large organisation headquartered in Hamburg,
Germany. It stations approximately 11,000 employees across 17 countries; it
also has a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, 400 digital products and 50
radio and TV stations around the world.

3. H Bauer UK
• This company has been managed by 5 generations of the Bauer family and
was originally a small printing-house in Germany. The company entered
the UK after the launch of Bella magazine in 1987. They were publishing
under the name of H Bauer Publishing and became Britain’s third largest
publisher. After this they expanded by purchasing Emap Consumer Media
and Emap Radio in 2008.
• After purchasing those medias, Bauer split into two divisions by keeping H
Bauer but bringing in Bauer (Consumer) Media as a sister company.

4. H Bauer Media Brands
• Bauer Media acquired a fair amount of media brands after purchasing
Emap. This includes heat and Garcia magazine as well as a few radio
brands such as KISS FM UK and Magic. They also acquired Absolute Radio
from Times of India.
• They also broadcast TV music channels including The Box TV while being
in a joint venture with Channel 4.
• Bauer Media did have a music magazine named Cue, but then later on they
changed the name to Q, so they wouldn’t be mistaken for a snooker
magazine.

5. IPC Media (Time Inc. UK)
Time Inc. UK (formerly International Publishing Corporation and IPC Media)
are a company that publish in the UK with a large variety of magazines, selling
over 350 million copies each year. It was founded in 1968 and created general
magazines used now such as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror (formerly
Sunday Pictorial).

6. IPC Media
• In 1963, all of Time Inc. UK’s companies were combined by the creation of a
parent company called the International Publishing Corporation (IPC).
• IPC then set up a management development department in 1965, to
rationalise its holdings, so that its various smaller companies wouldn’t fight
in competition for the same markets. A year later, this resulted in the parent
company splitting into six divisions.
• IPC Newspapers (The People, The Sun, Daily Mirror , etc.)
• IPC Magazines
• IPC Trade and Technical (IPC Business Press Ltd.)
• IPC Books
• IPC Printing (Non-newspaper printing operations)
• IPC New Products (Launching pad for products which used new
technology

7. The Time Inc. Takeover
• In 1998, IPC Magazines Ltd was subject to a management buyout financed
by Cinven, a venture capital group. This lead to the company being
renamed back to IPC Media, then was sold to the company Time
Incorporated.
• IPC Media formally became Time Inc. UK in September 2014, creating a
single Time Inc. brand in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

8. Condé Nast
• Condé Nast is a division of Advance Publications and is a mass media
company headquartered at One World Trade Center in New York City. It
attracts more than 164 million consumers in its 20 print and digital media
brands. It was founded in 1909, was named after the founder Condé
Montress Nast and produces magazines.

9. History of Condé Nast
• It all started by Nast purchasing Vogue, which was created in 1892 as a
weekly magazine of society and fashion news. He did not actually
incorporate Condé Nast onto Vogue until 1923. He then bought a few more
companies such as House & Garden, Vanity Fair and Glamour. They also
introduced a British version of Vogue in 1916 and then became the first
publishing magazine to do an overseas edition.
• Condé Nast is considered to be the originator of class publication; a type of
portfolio focused on general interests and social groups, rather than trying
to get the most readers possible.
• Recently Condé Nast have announced that they have acquired Pitchfork
Media (October 13th 2015).

10. History of Condé Nast
Continued
• The company have launched Condé Nast Entertainment to develop
television, film and video programming. This was in 2011, could possible
creations of films by this company be as popular as their magazines?
• Over the past 20 years, the company have held record profits, tripling its
growth and expanding its content distribution. As well as this, they have
earned more editorial, design, advertising, digital, business and video
awards than any other competitor, making them the best company by a
long shot.
• The company has now relocated to the 1 World Trade Center as it makes
more sense to their role as a company; to be global, as well as to make them
have the type of business they deserve; high up and of the best quality.