2. IPC media produces over 85 iconic media brand, with their print brands alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 44% of UK men – almost 27
million UK adults, while our online brands collectively reach 20 million users every month.
IPC diverse print and digital portfolio offers something for everyone, which have three core audiences they focus on which are:
•Men (IPC inspire) – this comprises a wealth of leisure brands including, Country life, Horse & Hound, Rugby World Decanter, also they have lifestyle
brands including, NUTS, Mousebreaker and NME.
•Mass market women (IPC connect) – this comprises famous women's weeklies including, Look, Chat, Now and Woman, also TV entertainment brands
including, What’s on TV, TVTimes and TV & Satellite week, and online there is the goodtoknow network.
•Upmarket women (IPC Southbank) – comprises luxury fashion brands including, Marie Clare and InStyle, also there are lifestyle brands including,
woman&home and essentials, also home interest brands including, Ideal Home, Livingetc and housetohome.
IPC media is wholly owned by Time Inc.
In the mid 1950’s the magazine publishing industry was dominated by a handful of companies. These companies fought each other for market share in a
highly competitive marketplace.
3. Country Life
Is one of the biggest and
instantly recognisable brands in
the market.
Frequency: Weekly
Cost: £3.20
It has a unique core mix of
contemporary country-related
editorial and top end property
advertising. Editorially, the
magazine comments in-depth
on a wide variety of subjects
including, architecture, the arts,
gardens and gardening, the
countryside, field-sports and
wildlife.
www.countrylife.co.uk
TVTimes
This magazine has the hottest TV
news. Frequency:
Weekly Cost: £1.10
TVTimes is one of the best known
magazine brands, with over 50
years of TV heritage. It enjoys an
excellent reputation within the TV
industry and has enviable access to
Britain’s favorite stars and their
programmes. TVTimes is
positioned in the premium sector as
a quality TV weekly magazine,
popular with all the family. After
major research and development,
TVT has been refreshed to reveal a
modern and vibrant look, with a
clear vision of what today's reader
wants from their favorite television
magazine.
http://www.tvtimes.co.uk
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is Britain’s leading
fashion brand. Frequency:
Monthly Cost: £3.50
This magazine is a worldwide
icon with editions in 36 countries
and is published in the UK in
partnership with French
publishing company Groupe
Marie Claire. The UK edition,
published by IPC Southbank,
was launched in 1988. Marie
Claire is a compelling media
magazine that combines out
standing fashion to inspire
women who want to think smart
and look amazing.
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk
4. Bauer Media company is private and focuses on the industry of publishing and broadcasting. It was founded in 1875
and it’s headquarters are in Hamburg, Germany, also the areas served are Europe, USA, China and Russia. It has a
revenue turnover of 1.79 billion euro.
Bauer media 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.
It has over 230 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations. The worldwide circulation of this
media group’s magazines amounts to 38 million magazines a week.
The Group employs some 6,400 people and has a 2008 turnover of 2.08 billion Euros.
Bauer Media reaches over nineteen million UK adults across multiple media channels. They have more than eighty
influential media brands spanning a wide range of interests, including magazines and their group of twenty local
radio stations.
5. Mother & Baby
The pregnancy and parenting
magazine for modern mothers.
Mother & Baby provides new
mums and mums-to-be with the
best advice and information for
their pregnancy, baby and future.
This magazine is for mums-to-be
and mums with children up to 2
years old. Their average age is
32 and 63% work full or part-time.
Mother & Baby is a magazine and
also online.
www.askamum.co.uk
Heat
The UK’s most famous celebrity
brand.
Heat was launched in 2000 and is
now the must have celebrity
weekly. Delivering unrivalled
exclusive access to the world's
most famous people in the
magazine every week, a heat
moment is always an Oh.My.God!
moment. heat’s unique sense of
humor, obsessive attention to
celebrity detail and unshakable
dedication to the joy of gossip is
what keeps everyone coming back
for more.
Heat is a magazine, on radio and
online.
www.heatworld.com www.matchmag.co.uk
MATCH!
The number one youth football
brand.
This magazine brings fans
closer to their football heroes.
MATCH! magazine features the
biggest stars, the best
interviews, and the latest
football news every week.
7-16 year old football mad
children and teenagers mainly
boys with a median age of 12.
6. Condé Nast is subsidiary and was founded in 1907. it’s headquarters are in a Condé Nast building in New York City.
The companies revenue for 2007 was £2 billion estimated USD, FY and its parent is Advanced Publications.
Condé Nast is a worldwide magazine publishing company. Its main offices are in New York, Chicago, Miami, Madrid,
Milan, Tokyo, London and Paris. Condé Nast is run by S.I. Newhouse Jr, and is a division of Advance Publications,
who have owned the company since 1959.
By 1998 the group included 17 such publications, many of them are the largest in their markets. It had an average
total circulation of over 13 million issues a month, and an estimated actual readership 5 times larger than that.
7. Vogue
This is a fashion and lifestyle
magazine that is published in
18 national and one regional
edition. Each month, Vogue
publishes a magazine including
topics of fashion, life and
design. The price of this
creative magazine is varied
around £3.80.
Wired
This magazine is a full-color
monthly American magazine
which is published since March
1993, that reports on how
technology affects culture, the
economy, and politics. It is
published in San Francisco,
California. It also has 2 new
national editions Wired UK and
Wired Italia. The founding
designers were John Plunkett
and Barbara Kuhr, starting with
a 1991 prototype and
continuing through the first five
years of publication, 1993–98.
GQ
This was originally Gentlemen's
Quarterly is a monthly men's
magazine focusing on fashion,
style, and culture for men,
through articles on food,
movies, fitness, sex, music,
travel, sports, technology, and
books.
8. EMAP is a private company and it’s industry is publishing. This was founded in 1947 and now it’s headquarters are in
London, UK. The revenue turnover in 2006 was £1.154 billion. It’s operating income in 2006 was £223 million.
Emap is a British media company, specializing in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organization of
business events and conferences. It has 59 business-to-business magazines.
The magazine division was found on a hunch when the company’s presses are low between printing issues of the local
papers. The thought that a weekly angling publication would be a hit so I 1953 Angling Times was made. Which was soon
joined by another high selling magazine motor cycle news from its founded in 1956 for £100. both remain in the top 10 profit
earners for the company to this day.
9. Future is a private limited company (PLC) and focuses in the industry on magazine and internet publishing. It was
founded by Chris Anderson in 1985, and its headquarters and in Bath, UK.
Future sells more than 3 million magazines each month and they have more than 20 million unique visitors to
their websites and they host 27 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. Future
exports or syndicates publications to 90 countries internationally, making us the UK’s number one exporter
and licensor of monthly magazines.
Future’s magazines, websites and events are managed across four portfolios: Games, Technology, Music &
Movies and Active. Our biggest titles include XBox 360: The Official Magazine, Total Film, T3, Guitar World and
Maximum PC.
Future, the special-interest media group, announces that it has appointed Mark Whiteling as a non-
executive Director with effect from 8th October 2010.
Future plc, the international special-interest media group, provides a pre-close trading update ahead of its
results for the year ending 30 September 2010 which will be announced on 24 November 2010.
In 2006 future was the sixth largest company in the UK.
It focuses on magazine and internet publishing.
