Research on Magazine Publishers

Bauer Media
Bauer Media publishes magazines such as Closer, Zoo, Match!, Mother & Baby, Heat and Kerrang!. Bauer Media is built on influential media brands with millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. Their strategy is to connect audiences with excellent content through their broad multi-touch point brand platforms, wherever and whenever and however they want. They are very diverse as they publish many different type of genres of magazines. Bauer Media's wide portfolio of influential brands gives them advantages over pure play magazine or radio competitors. They are very successful and publish dozens of popular magazines. (Source from http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/)


National Magazine Company
National Magazine Company publishes magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Best, Men's Health, Reveal, Thriathalete's World, All About Soap and many more. National Magazine Company's  major interests include magazine, newspaper and business publishing, cable networks, television and radio broadcasting, internet businesses, TV production and distribution, newspaper features distribution and real estate. They are highly succesful and have recieved many awards. (Source from http://www.hearst.co.uk/)

Future Publishing
Future Publishing publishes magazines such as Classic Ford, Total Guitar, Classic Rock, PhotoPlus, Cycling Plus and Simply Kitting. Future was founded with one magazine, today they have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. They are succesful in the magazines that they publish and they have won awards for AOP Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year 2012 and PPA Digital Consumer Publisher of the Year 2012. (Source from http://www.futureplc.com/)

IPC Media
IPC Media publish magazines such as NME, Woman's Weekly, Now, Nuts, and many others.
IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publisherw ith more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events. They engage with 26 million UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and over 40% of UK men. Their award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million global users every month. They are very succesful with a good portfolio and a range of different diverse genres of magazines. (Source from http://www.ipcmedia.com/)

Conde Nast
Conde Nast publishes magazines such as Glamour, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Brides and Easy Living. They publish magazines which are usually aimed at women and are usually of a fashion genre. They are highly succesful as the majority of their magazines are very well known and popular and usually are expensive.

Hachette Filipacchi
In France, Hachette Filipacchi publish 47 magazines such as Elle France, Ici Paris, Joystick and Photo.