2. Top Magazine titles owned by the national magazine company 324,753 -3.9% (399.045) 414,358 +1.9% (455,128) 305,843 -6.4% (348,893)
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4. Hearst Magazines UK is the trading name of National Magazine Company Ltd Established in 1910 by William Randolph Hearst Good Housekeeping had been originally launched in the USA in 1885 by the Phelps Publishing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. Hearst bought the title in 1911 in a deal which took one hour, the purchase being made out of future profits.
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6. Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s. Also known as Cosmo, its content as of 2011 included articles on relationships and sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, as well as fashion and beauty. It was bought in 1905 for $400,000 by William Randolph Hearst and Published by Hearst Magazines, Cosmopolitan has 63 international editions, is printed in 32 languages and is distributed in more than 100 countries.
7. Most of the magazines they own target women. The ages of women they target are 20 and higher Target audience The Oprah Magazine -- popular women’s magazine founded by talk show queen Oprah Winfrey Good Housekeeping -- originally founded in 1885, this women’s magazine is associated with the well known product testing company, the Good Housekeeping Institute Esquire -- a literary men’s magazine founded in 1933 and known for some of the high end short fiction it’s published; famed editor Gordon Lish worked at the magazine as an editor and published writers like Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and T. Coraghessan Boyle Cosmopolitan -- aka Cosmo , this women’s magazine is one of the bestselling women’s glossies on the shelves Most successful magazines
