Magazine Publishers

Future PLC

Future PLC is the international media group and leading digital business, today announces that PC Gamer has experienced record-breaking growth in engagement in its first month since a the site re-design, with over 52 million page views globally, up 109% over the previous record of 29.5 million. It was founded in 1985 by someone called Chris Anderson and the headquarters is in bath, summerset in the UK.

It is a media company that is a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index, this company also owns the US Company, Future US.

It publishes more than 30 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, films and photography. In November 2009, Future reported a fall in profits from £9.5 million to £3.7 million (a loss of 61 percent) in the fiscal year that ended 30 September 2009. Future attributed this to problems with their US market, hit by a fall in the general advertising market.^[2]

Future sold its U.S. music-media brands, including Guitar World and Revolver, to New Bay Media LLC for $3 million.

 

IPC Media

IPC Media is also known as Time Inc.UK

• IPC Newspapers — including The People and The Sun (soon sold), as well as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial
• IPC Magazines — consumer magazines and comics
• IPC Trade and Technical — specialist magazines (later known as IPC Business Press Ltd.)
• IPC Books — all book publishing (headed by Paul Hamlyn, whose own company had been acquired by IPC).
• IPC printing — all non-newspaper printing operations (headed by Arnold Quick, whose own company had also been acquired by IPC).
• IPC New Products — launching pad for products which used new technology (headed by Alistair McIntosh).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bauer

Bauer, the UK's largest magazine publisher, also has a big presence in radio, but very little is known about the family-run, privately owned company or its shy, elusive boss.

A few months after the Emap deal, Bauer journalists in the UK said that few, if any, of the editors of what were Emap's prize possessions - super-selling consumer magazines such as Heat, FHM and Closer - had met Bauer, though the press office said that some senior managers and editors attended a Bauer conference in Hamburg in April. What is clear is that the key editors were taken for lunch in the UK by Saskia Bauer, the youngest of the four Bauer daughters (all of whom work for the firm - although in what capacity is debated.)