Magazine Publishers IPC Media One of the major magazine publishers is IPC Media owned by ‘Time Inc. The industry is formerly known as ‘International Publishing Corporation’, this consumer magazine is digital published in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. It was founded in 1968 in London, United Kingdom. The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, George Newnes Publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace. In 1998, IPC Magazines was subject to a management buyout financed by Cinven, a venture capital group, and the company was renamed IPC Media. Cinven then sold the company to Time Inc., then the magazine publishing subsidiary of Time Warner, in 2001. In January 2009, the company's chief executive became Evelyn Webster, replacing Sylvia Auton who had run it since 2001. IPC Media formally became Time Inc. UK in September 2014 and creating a single Time Inc. brand in both the US and UK. In April 2012, IPC Media won an award for Best Production Team of the Year at the Professional Publishers Association Production and Environment Awards 2012. This really helped the industry to get better know with in the media world even more than it already is. It has award winning websites who reach over 28 million global users every month engaging almost half of all UK adults.
Bauer Bauer is based in the UK and reaches over 22 million UK consumers every week through different entertainment brands such as heat, Kiss, Grazia, Empire, Magic and Absolute Radios. On their website it says to promote the brand saying ‘it creates and curates entertaining media content that audiences love whenever, wherever and however they want through a multi-channel strategy and a focus on product excellence and audience insight’, these bold words like ‘product excellence’ shows the positivity that this media brand promotes and that the aim for progress in everything. Statements like this are very inviting to the audience and draws them in. Bauer Media is a division of the Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest privately owned publishing Group. The Group is a worldwide media empire offering over 300 magazines in 15 countries, as well as online, TV and radio stations. Bauer Media joined the Bauer Media Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses. Collectively, the Group employs round about 6,400 people. There magazine heritage goes all the way back to 1953 with the launch of Angling Times and the acquisition in 1956 of Motor Cycle News, both still iconic brands. In 1996, Bauer bought digital music TV channel The Box, as a route into the small screen
business, which has grown into Box Television, a seven channel joint venture TV business with Channel 4. Continuing Bauer history of magazine launches, Closer was launched in 2002 and Britain’s first weekly glossy, GRAZIA, was launched in 2005.
Condé Nast Condé Nast is an advanced publication company which was founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast and has been owned and worked by the Newhouse family since 1959. Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications, Charles H. Townsend is its chief executive officer and Robert A. Sauerberg is its president. Condé Nast publishers are based at One World Trade Centre in New York City. The company’s first purchase was of the famous Vogue magazine, which was first created in 1892 as New York’s weekly journal of society and fashion news. At first, Nast published the magazine under Vogue Company and didn't incorporate Condé Nast until 1923. He had a flair for nurturing elite readers as well as advertisers and upgraded Vogue, sending the magazine on its path of becoming a top fashion authority. Eventually, Nast's company expanded and they started House & Garden magazine, Vanity Fair (temporarily known as Dress and Vanity Fair), Glamour and American Golfer. The company also introduced British Vogue in 1916 and Condé Nast became the first publisher of an overseas edition of an existing magazine. The company now attracts more than 164 million consumers across 20 different print and digital media brands e.g. Allure, Architectural Digest, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, Brides, Condé Nast Traveller, Details, Epicurious, Glamour, Golf Digest, Golf World, GQ, Lucky, The New Yorker, Self, Teen Vogue, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W and Wired. In 2011, Condé Nast Entertainment was launched to develop film, television and digital video programming. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media (FFM) and with its inclusive fashion journalism brands e.g. Beauty Inc., Footwear News, M, Style.com and WWD. This company is very up to date, offering 17 of its brands to Kindle Fire in September, 2011. Nast was very committed to his publishing and made sure that only the highest-quality magazines very published in his company; in order to ensure the finest printing for his magazines, he opened a state-of-the-art printing press in 1924. It eventually grew to become one of the finest manufacturing plants in the country; until it closed in 1964. Sticking to those high standards he craved so much in his products continued on through the Great Depression in 1929. When Condé Nast introduced advanced typography, design and colour. Vogue's first full colour photograph was featured on the cover in 1932, marking the year when Condé Nast began replacing fashion drawings on covers with photo illustrations; an ground-breaking move at the time. Glamour was then launched in 1939, as the last magazine personally introduced to the company by Nast, who died in 1942.