Here are a few examples of the magazines they produce:

•NME (Music mag.)

•World Soccer (Football mag.)

•Nuts

•TV Times

•Woman’s Own (Gossip mag.)

•Amateur Photographer

•Shooting Gazette (Gun mag.)

As you can see, there is a wide range of magazines available from IPC.

History – Key points

•1963: IPC Media founded

•1968: IPC Split into six divisions – Newspaper, Magazine, Trade & Technical, Books, Printing and New Products.

•1970: IPC taken over by Reed International

•Early 90s: First set of ‘lad’s mags’ released, starting with Loaded magazine.

•1998: IPC Media taken over by Time Inc.

NME, one of the most popular music magazines in the UK.

Nuts, a huge magazine that

sells on average 90,000 copies a

week.

TV Times, one of the most bought

TV Guides in Britain.

World Soccer, just one of many huge magazines

made by IPC.

IPC Media, formerly the International

Publishing Corporation, is a

consumer magazine and digital publisher

within the United Kingdom, selling over

350 million magazines each

year.

www.ipcmedia.co.uk

Here are a few examples of the magazines they produce:

•Empire (Film mag.)

•FHM (Men’s lifestyle mag.)

•Golf World

•Kerrang! (Rock music mag.)

•Closer (Gossip mag.)

•MATCH! (Football mag.)

•Angling Times

A wide range of magazines are available from Bauer, just like IPC.

History – Key points

•1875: Bauer Media founded

•1953: First magazine, Angling Times, published

•1987: First magazine published in he UK

•1990: Radio business began with London station Kiss FM, followed by Liverpool’s Radio City and then Melody FM, which was to become Magic 105.4

• 1994: Company buys magazine, For Him Magazine, which would become FHM.

•1996: Acquired first digital TV channel, The Box

•Throughout the 90s and 00s, Bauer released several more magazines, radio stations, and TV channels.

FHM, also one of Bauer’s most

successful magazines.

Bauer Media is a worldwide corporation – with it’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, which employs 6,750 people, it’s worldwide magazine sales are

around 38 million copies a week – the same as the entire population of California.

Q, one of Bauer’s most successful magazines.

Bauer have offices in:

Germany USA

Spain France Austria Poland

Portugal Romania Hungary

Czech Republic Mexico

China Russia

Slovakia United Kingdom

Nigeria

MATCH! Magazine, another of Bauer’s brands aimed at a younger audience.

www.bauermedia.co.uk

Here are a few examples of the magazines they produce:

•Total Film

•Official XBOX Magazine

•Classic Rock

•T3 (Gadget mag.)

•Mountain Biking UK

•PlayStation Magazine

•PC GamerThere seems to be 4 main areas that Future cover. They are Gaming, Music, Movies and Tech. There is the odd exception, but they seem to be all in these four.

XBOX 360 Magazine, one of

Future’s most successful magazines.

T3, one of Future’s most

successful magazines.

Total Film, another successful magazine

made by Future.

History – Key points

•1985: Future plc. Founded by Chris Anderson

•1994: Future plc. Sold to Pearson PLC, then bought back by Anderson in 1998

Future plc. is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers.

Here are a few examples of the magazines they produce:

•Vogue

•GQ (Men’s lifestyle mag.)

•Wired (Gadget mag.)

•Brides

•World Of Interiors

•Easy Living

•GlamourThe majority of the magazines made by Condé Nast seem to be aimed at women, and most of those mags seem to be on fashion, such as Vogue and Glamour. There are virtually none on music, gaming, film, TV or sport.

Wired, another one of Condé’s magazines.

GQ, one of Condé’s most

successful magazines.

Vogue, one of the biggest

magazines in the world.

History – Key points

•1907: Condé Nast founded

•1909: Vogue magazine published

•1959: S.I Newhouse Sr. purchases controlling interest in Condé Nast publishing

•By 1998, Condé Nast publishing had 19 different publications available, with an average circulation of 13 million issues a month.

History – Key points

•1887: emap founded

•1953: First major magazine, Angling Times, is first produced.

•1956: Motor Cycle News founded

•In the 1970s and 80s, the company reached its peak

•1996: emap sold 63 of its magazine rights, eventually turning emap into an independent magazine publisher.

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising

in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the

organisation of business events and conferences. The

company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by Apax and Guardian Media

Group.

"EMAP" is an acronym, standing for East Midland

Allied Press.

Here are a few examples of the magazines they produce:•AJ

•Retail Week

•Drapers

•PC Leisure

•SPORT

•The One

•The Face