IPC is the leading UK publishing company with three core divisions - Connect focuses on women's magazines, Inspire focuses on men's magazines about sports and leisure, and Southbank focuses on higher-end women's magazines and lifestyle magazines. IPC magazines reach 26 million UK adults. Bauer Media is one of the largest magazine publishers globally, owning magazines such as Closer, Heat, Q, and Kerrang. EMAP focuses on producing business-to-business magazines and organizing business events, and has produced magazines across various industries such as retail, media, and education.

1. MEDIA INSTIUTIONS

2. IPC
IPC (international publishing company) have 3 core
divisions that they divide their magazines into –
 Connect has women’s weekly magazines such as
Look or Now. This appeals to mass market
women.
 Inspire focuses on men's portfolio and leisure in
magazines such as Rugby World or NME.
 Southbank includes higher class women’s
magazine such as Marie Clare. It also has
lifestyle and home magazines like woman&home
or Ideal Home.
(http://www.timeincuk.com/about/)

3.  IPC is the leading UK publishing company for
consumer magazines.
 It’s audience makes up 26 million adults in the
UK, 42% of UK men and almost 2 thirds of UK
women.
 They have produced NME music magazine which
has a high reputation and demand in stores.
 They advertise to the masses, focusing on
popular culture and are consumer-aware.

4. BAUER MEDIA
 Bauer media is one of the leading multinational
magazine publishers on the globe.
 Bauer media is a part of Bauer Media Group
which is Europe's largest privately owned
publishing group. They offer over 300 magazines
in 15 countries as well as having online, tv, and
radio presence.

5.  Bauer owns well-known magazines such as
Closer, Heat, Q, Kerrang, and Mojo.
 Magazines such as Mojo which focus on Indie
style music would be relevant to my magazine
style and genre.

6. EMAP
 ‘’EMAP maintains an undiluted focus on content
and product quality across online and offline
publications, conferences, awards, exhibitions,
festivals, data and intelligence services. This
enables the sharing of best practice, ideas and
inspiration, for better, more timely, more informed
decisions… We depend on the imagination and
passion of our people to invent and develop our
brands, and drive our business forward. ‘’ –
emap.com

7.  Emap Limited is a British media company,
focusing on the production of business-to-business
magazines, as well as the organisation
of business event.
 They have magazines in a variety of sections
such as retail, media, fashion, health, education
and others.
 They produced Smash Hits magazine.