Institutional research

1. By Ayesha Patel

2. Bauer Media Group is a large European-based media company that was
founded in 1875, headquartered in Germany it has a revenue of
approximately 2.4 billion euros. This company manages a portfolio of more
than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations
around the world. Yvonne Bauer is the publisher and David Goodchild and
Paul Keenan are the CEO of the company. Bauer Media Group entered the
UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987 and, under the name of H
Bauer Publishing became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer expanded in
the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap Radio in
2008. H Bauer is a publishing brand that includes women’s weekly, Grazia,
Heat , Kerrang and Q.

3. Radio:
The Bauer network is divisible into two main groups , the Bauer place and passion
units, with place consisting of locally focused services primarily broadcast on AM/FM.
Some examples of the radio stations they own are :
• 96.3 Radio Aire (Leeds)
• Radio city 96.7 (Liverpool)
• Key 103 (Manchester)
• 97.4 Rock FM
• Magic 105.4 (London)
• Kiss 100 (London)
TV:
Bauer media group has 50% stake in the British television company box television, the
other half is owned by channel 4.These music channels include:
• Q TV
• 4 music
• Kiss TV
• Kerrang TV
• Smash hits TV

4. Condé Nast is a division of Advance Publications, is a mass media
company headquartered at One World Trade Center in New York
City. The company was founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast
and has been owned and operated by the Newhouse family since
1959. Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. is the chairman and CEO of
Advance Publications, Charles H. Townsend is its chief executive
officer and Robert A. Sauerberg is its president. The company
attracts more than 164 million consumers across its 20 print and
digital media brands. He launched his magazine empire in 1909
with the purchase of Vogue, Nast published the magazine under
Vogue Company and didn't incorporate Condé Nast until
1923.They publish magazines such as Glamour , GQ , Vogue , wired
and Easy living.

5. The Hearst Corporation is an American multinational
mass media group based in the Hearst Tower in
Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Founded by
William Randolph Hearst .Its major interests include 15
daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300
magazines worldwide. This corporation published
magazines such as Company, Cosmopolitan , Elle and
Real people. They revenued 9 billion US dollars in
2014.

6. The publisher of XXL Magazine
is Harris Publications. It is an
American consumer magazine
publisher in New York city, it
publishes over 75 titles
including XXL , Scratch and
Revolver. Stanley R.Harris
founded the company. In
August 1997, Harris
publications released the first
issue of XXL. It featured Jay-Z
and Master P on a double
cover. In December 2006, XXL
took over the struggling hip
hop and DJ magazine Scratch,
re-branding it as XXL Presents
Scratch Magazine, it shut down
a year later. The table below
shows the increasing growth of
Harris Publications.

7. Private equity investment fund Intermedia Partners, LP bought Vibe
Magazine. They added Uptown magazine to Vibe's parent company,
Vibe Holdings. Magic Johnson later invested in the company and
Vibes holdings merged with Black Book Media to form Vibe Media in
2012.In April, 2013 it was announced that Vibe Magazine along with
Vibe.com and VibeVixen.com had been sold to Spin Media for an
undisclosed sum. Spin Media was thought likely to shut down Vibe's
print magazine by the end of 2013.

8. All publishers seemed to be based
in the USA however in order for
them to publish British magazines
they have to build a smaller
publication company of their
brand that separately works on
the UK magazines.
some examples are :
• Q magazine is published by
Bauer Media which is American
• IPC media recently changed to
Time Incur; this is a smaller
version just for British
magazines. The bigger
publications company is Time
inc which is an American
company.