IPC MEDIA

IPC Media is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers, 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. 1

With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events.  As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher we engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. Our award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million users globally every month.2

IPC Media have a wide range of magazines, including things such as ‘Gossip’ magazines such as ‘LOOK’, Women’s magazines ‘Women’s Weekly’, Gradening magazines such as ‘Homes and Gardens’ and other magazines such as Essentials, Ideal Home, Cycling Weekly and Horse and hound.

IPC Media is a Mainstream magazine institution.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPC_Media

2 http://www.ipcmedia.com/about

Bauer Media

Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany 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.3

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 is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators.4

Bauer Media produces magazines such as ‘Music’, ‘Bike’, ‘Closer’, ‘Empire’, ‘Gold World’, ‘Heat’ and ‘Mother and Baby’. Bauer Media produces mostly Mainstream magazines.

3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauer_Media_Group

4 http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/about

EMAP Media

EMAP owns industry-leading brands that sit at the heart of business powerful B2B communities like Retail, Health, Construction, Architecture, and Fashion. Their purpose is to connect professional communities and inspire them to know, to grow, progress and win.  Brands such as HSJ and Retail Week create deep relationships and unparalleled reach, to increase value for our customers. They deliver this through senior networking events; industry leading awards; online data products; social media communities; headline conferences and, of course, critical insight, news and analysis. 5

Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian in 1887 and later purchased the Lynn News and the Peterborough Advertiser; he also started the North Cambs Echo.6

EMAP produce magazines such as ‘retail Week’, ‘Retail jeweller’, ‘Nursing times.net’, ‘Constructions News’ and ‘lighting’.

EMAP is a mainstream magazine company.

5 http://www.emap.com/about-us

6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMAP

Future PLC

Future PLC is an international media group, listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: FUTR).  Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events.Future attracts more than 50 million monthly unique visitors to there digital properties websites; and they deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet devices. They sell 2.2 million magazines every month, and export or syndicate to 89 countries, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content.

Their most successful products include TechRadar (the UK’s number one consumer technology website), T3, Total Film, BikeRadar, MusicRadar, Classic Rock, GamesRadar, Digital Camera and Mollie Makes.

Future PLC in a niche.

Overall the company that I would chose to have my magazine with would be IPC Media, I have chosen to go with IPC media because It already has a wide range of different popular magazines, and IPC media have a lot of magazine focused on more of a female side such as ‘LOOK’ or ‘Women’s Weekly’. Following this I think they would be the best company to go with for my ‘POP’ magazine as it is mostly focused on females and also it is a music magazine and IPC media already have music magazines as well which is ‘NME’. Another good reason to go with IPC media is that they only have one other teen magazine in there company so this would be a good opportunity to go with this company.

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