Bauer Media is a large privately owned European publishing group consisting of over 300 magazines across 15 countries, as well as online, radio, and television stations. It has extensive experience publishing a wide variety of magazine genres and styles both in the UK and Europe. IPC Media, now known as Time Inc. UK, is a large UK-based consumer magazine and digital publisher that owns over 60 well-known magazine brands which it publishes, including popular titles like NME and Guitar and Bass magazines. BRP Media is a new UK-based publishing company focused on fashion and regional magazines, making it well-suited to publish the author's planned regional fashion magazine.