1. Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which
operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in
1875, it has been privately owned and under management by the Bauer
family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated
to HBV and usually shortened to H. Bauer.
Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38
million magazines a week.
Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by four generations of the Bauer
family. Originally a small printing house, The Bauer Publishing Group has
grown into a worldwide publishing and media company. The Bauer
Publishing Group comprises 282 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as
well as TV and radio stations. Bauer started in the UK with the launch of
Bella magazine in 1987 and as H Bauer Publishing became Britain's third
largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and
Emap Radio in 2008 to become the UK's biggest publishing group.
The group acquired Australia's largest magazine publisher, ACP Magazines from private equity
paymasters, CVC in 2012, increasing the company’s value to more than €2 billion.
The company trades as H Bauer Publishing - MD David Goodchild, and Bauer Consumer Media -
CE Paul Keenan.
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.
Origins
The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies,
principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press
Ltd, George Newnes Publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other
for market share in a highly competitive marketplace.
[edit]Fleetway
In 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of a newspaper group which included the Daily Mirror and
the Sunday Pictorial (now the Sunday Mirror), together with provincial chain West of England
Newspapers, made an offer for Amalgamated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he
was appointed its chairman. Within a few months he changed its name to Fleetway Publications,
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Ltd. after the name of its headquarters, Fleetway House in London's Farringdon Street.
Shortly thereafter, Odhams Press absorbed both George Newnes and the Hulton Press. King saw an
opportunity in this to rationalise the overcrowded women's magazine market, in which Fleetway and
Newnes were the major competitors, and made a bid for Odhams on behalf of Fleetway that was too
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attractive to ignore. Fleetway took over Odhams in March 1961.

2. Emap International Limited (now known as Top Right Group) 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.
"EMAP" is an acronym, standing for East Midland Allied Press.
The magazine division was founded on a hunch when the company's printing presses lay dormant
between printing issues of the local papers. The staff gambled that a weekly angling publication would
be a hit - and in 1953 Angling Times was born. This was soon joined by another weekly heavyweight
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when EMAP bought Motor Cycle News from its founder in 1956 for a hundred pounds. It had been
launched two years earlier. Both remain in the top 10 profit earners for the company (now Bauer) to
this day. The Winfrey family continued to work on the management team of EMAP until the early
1980s and remained large shareholders until two thirds of the company were sold to Bauer Media
Group in early 2008
EMAP Radio
See also: Bauer Radio
EMAP operated seven DAB multiplexes and also three jointly owned multiplexes with UTV. In
addition, EMAP Radio owned 40 UK and Ireland local commercial radio stations. Following its
purchase of Trans World Communications, it continued to buy radio stations, including 21 stations
from Scottish Radio Holdings on 21 June 2005.
Twenty of its local contemporary music radio stations based across the north of the United
Kingdom were marketed as the Big City Network.
In mid-2007, EMAP sold its Republic of Ireland radio interests to Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group
Limited (other than FM104, which was sold to Communicorp but acquired from Communicorp by UTV
Media at the same time).
[edit]EMAP magazines
EMAP has 20 magazines in its business-to-business portfolio including:
Architects Journal
Architectural Review
Broadcast
Construction News
Drapers
Health Service Journal
Local Government Chronicle
Materials Recycling Week[1]
Nursing Times
Retail Week
Recycling & Waste Management
Screen International

3. Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United
Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games,
technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official
magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers.It is a
constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index. The company also owns the US
company, Future US.
The company was founded in Somerton, Somerset in 1985 by Chris Anderson with the sole
magazine Amstrad Action. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers,
the first company to do so.
Anderson sold Future to Pearson PLC for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, with Future
chief executive Greg Ingham and Apax Venture Partners, for £142m. In 2001 Anderson left Future
In November 2009, Future reported a fall in profits from £9.5 million to £3.7 million (a loss of 61
percent) in the fiscal year that ended 30 September 2009. Future attributed this to problems with their
US market, hit by a fall in the general advertising market.
In March 2010, Future announced that it was exploring the possibility of reviving
its GamesMaster brand on television. The video games show had run from 1992 until 1998; the spin-
off magazine continues to be published.