2. International Publishing
Company
IPC Media is one of the United Kingdom's leading
consumer magazine and digital publishers, with a large
portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.
IPC Media groups titles under five magazine divisions:
Connect, Inspire, Ignite!, SouthBank and TX. In addition,
there is Market force, the UK's leading magazine
distribution business. Digitally they have WOTV and
goodtoknow.
3. EMAP
Emap was the second largest magazine publisher
in UK with about 18% of the news-stand market by
revenue. However, in July 2007, the company
announced a strategic review. The result was that
the company was split up and sold off.
The business-to-business magazines were sold to
Guardian Media Group and private equity firm
Apax which owns Incisive - for £1bn. The new
company is to be called Incisive-Emap. its
consumer magazines and radio arm, including
Kiss and Magic, went to Bauer for £1.14 billion making the German magazine publisher the
largest in Britain.
4. Bauer
Bauer Media Group Is a large German publishing
company based in Hamburg, 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. They publish magazines like; Q MOJO and
KERRANG.
