2. Web details.
The web gives you information
High Branded magazines they on the UK’s leading consumer
publish. and digital publishing magazine. Company Size.
• Look. It tells you information on the; IPC media have several offices
• Marie Claire. Brands, Advertisements, Media around the UK but it has a main
• Country Life. and news and can even tell you office based in London. The
• Ideal Home. additional information such as other offices are based in;
• Essentials. Jobs and the company's History. • Derbyshire
• Cycle Sport. The website gives out a friendly • Lincs
• Teen Now and helpful use to the audience • Dorset
• Soap life. as it makes them feel they are • Croyden
• Pick me up. welcome to look around the • Berkshire
• Nuts. business’s they have been • Lincolnshire.
producing.
Market Share.
· IPC Media’s has over 85 brands to get income profit.
With 44% been brands for UK men, two thirds are for UK
women. Where as other readers has collectively 20
million users every month.
The focus on three cores of audience; men, mass market
woman and upmarket woman.
3. History and development.
The 1800s
• The Field launched in 1853 and within a year became the largest newspaper in Europe, with 24 pages.
• Further IPC titles that are still thriving today were launched in the late 1800s: Country Life, Horse & Hound, Shooting Times, Yachting
World, Amateur Gardening, Cycling Weekly, Amateur Photographer and The Railway Magazine*.
• Competitions played a key role in sales promotions for all early IPC titles. Answers, in 1889 - the then unheard of fortune of £1 a week for
life to any reader who could guess the amount of gold and silver in the Bank of England on a given date.
The early 1900s
• The opening of the new century saw the arrival of three titles set to become part of IPC Media many years later - Yachting Monthly, Cage
Birds* and Motor Boat.
• The first of IPC's four traditional women's weeklies, Woman's Weekly, launched in November.
• Homes & Gardens became one of the first magazines to be published after the First World War. Its early issues were distinctly down to
earth.
The 1980s
• IPC announces a joint venture company with Groupe Marie Claire to launch the UK edition of the international title Marie Claire in 1988.
• In a scheme to encourage and honour editorial excellence within the company, the IPC Editorial Awards are introduced, now a key event in the
company calendar.
• IPC embarks upon the biggest sales campaign in its history, spearheaded by 21 of its top editors - the first ad features 'Four of Britain's Most
Influential People' - the editors of its women's weeklies.
• Other new IPC titles on the newstand include 4x4*, Eventing, Chat, Mizz*, Motor Caravan Magazine*, Wedding & Home*, Country Homes &
Interiors, Classic Boat*, Model Collector*, Motor Boats Monthly, Practical Parenting*, VolksWorld and Bird Keeper*.
The 2010s
• In January 2010, IPC Media restructured around three key audience groups: men, mass-market women and up-market
women.
• IPC launches two new monthly magazines - Style at Home and goodtoknow Recipes.
• In June 2011, IPC Connect launches a major new brand - Feelgood games - targeting mass market mums with the very best
games and rewarding them with real gifts.
*No longer owned by IPC Media
4. Brand identity.
Bauer is a high class and superior house that
gives this impression out to the audience by
the magazines they publish. The also have
many different Audiences.
Profits.
Bauer media profits fall to £57 million
High branded Magazines they publish- Reports drop in revenue from £246m to
£228m, despite 11% cut in administrative
expenses each year.
Web details.
Beuers website is tidy and understandable to the target
audience. It clearly states how the business is built on
millions of personal relationships with engaged
audiences , it also gives you easy access to information
such as advertisements, research jobs and press.
Company Size.
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.
More
Brands.
5. History and development.
1950’S
•Our magazine heritage stretches back to 1953 with
the launch of Angling Times and the acquisition in
1956 of Motor Cycle News, both still iconic brands
within our portfolio.
1990
•The seeds of the company’s radio business were
planted in 1990 with the acquisition of London dance
station Kiss FM (now called Kiss 100), followed by the
acquisition of Liverpool's Radio City and later by TWC
and the Metro Group. Then came the acquisition of
Melody FM which was transformed into the market-
leading Magic 105.4.
1996 onwards.
we acquired digital music TV channel The Box, as a
1994 route into the small screen business, which has
•the company bought a small magazine called For grown into Box Television, a seven channel joint
Him Magazine which is now the core of the best- venture TV business with Channel 4.
selling international multi-platform brand FHM. Continuing its history of magazine
launches, Closer was launched in 2002 and Britain’s
first weekly glossy, GRAZIA, was launched in 2005.
6. Brand identity.
Conde nast is a high class magazine publish superior of Web details.
houses. They have brands such as VOGUE signifying the This website
high expectations in social class for an audience. is simple and
Although they cover all aspects of interests they still aim friendly to
for the high class impressions. use. It gives
the audience
Profits. a clear
Company size. Condé Nast’s financial results, which were made understandin
Condé Nast International Ltd., which public by Companies House last week, could not g of the
publishes international editions of quite reach the highs of 2008, when pre-tax profit website and
the U.S. titles, was incorporated in stood at £20.14m on revenue of £125.3m, with a tells you job
2005. Operating as a subsidiary of retained profit of £14.2m and operating profit of vacancies
Advance Publications, this division £18.9m. available.
publishes more than 126 magazines Over all is a
and 104 websites, representing 24 Staff costs were marginally lower last year – down very easy
markets around the globe. from £34.71m in 2009, to £33.61, as the average website to
number of staff employed by the company dropped navigate.
Published magazines. from 605 in 2009 to 577 last year.
7. History and development.
1959:
S.I. Newhouse, Sr., newspaper magnate, buys CNP.
1979:
Key Dates: Newhouse, Sr., dies and sons Si and Donald take over CNP and parent company
1873: Advance Publications Inc.
Condé Nast is born. 1983:
1892: Vanity Fair is reborn.
Fashion magazine Vogue is first published. 1988:
1909: CNP acquires Details magazine.
Condé Nast buys Vogue and begins his 1993:
publishing venture. CNP buys Bon Appétit and Architectural Digest; House & Garden is shuttered.
1911: 1995:
Nast buys an interest in House & Garden. House & Garden is relaunched for a younger female audience.
1914: 1999:
Nast launches Vanity Fair magazine. New CNP headquarters at Times Square is completed, with a Frank Gehry cafeteria.
1922: 2001:
Condé Nast Publications (CNP) is incorporated. CNP buys a majority stake in Ideas Publishing Group and launches
1936: Lucky shopping magazine.
Vogue and Vanity Fair are merged. 2002:
1939: Modern Bride joins Bride's in the CNP bridal group.
Glamour magazine debuts in the United States. 2003:
1942: Plans for Cargo, the male version of Lucky, are announced.
Nast dies.
8. Company size.
Future attracts more than 38 million monthly unique
visitors to our digital properties websites; and we
deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on
tablet devices. We 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
Products. Profits.
UK revenues grew by 1% year on
The magazines ‘future’ publishes are managed across 4
year to £47.8m. Digital revenues
main portfolios; games, technology; music & movies and increased 37% year on year to
active the main titles they have produced are £9.6m in the six months to 31
•Guitarist March and now account for 44%
•Computer world, of advertising and 16% of total
•Xbox 360 revenues. Overall UK advertising
•the official magazine revenues grew 1% year on year
• T3 to £12.9m fuelled by 17%
growth in digital ads, which
more than offset the 8% print
Web Details.
decline.
This website is a welcoming and easy to navigate site. It gives you
Total UK digital revenues, a
information on things such as what the company does and who
combination of e-edition sales
the investors are. Its very helpful towards the audience because it
and advertising, grew by 48%
gives out detailed information and even gives the latest news on
year on year.
what the company is doing.
9. History and development.
•1985
Chris Anderson founds Future Publishing with a £10,000 bank loan. The Bath-
based company’s first magazine, Amstrad Action, is launched with 100 pages and
a print run of 40,000 copies.
•1992
The company launches titles outside of the computer market, including Cycling Plus. The enthusiastic reception to these
titles serves notice that Future is capable of competing successfully with the best publishers in the land.
•1993
Licensed from the Channel 4 TV programme of the same name, GamesMaster hits the shelves. The title goes on to
become the UK’s longest running games magazine.
•1995
Future celebrates its tenth birthday and breaks into a new market with the launch of SFX. This is the first glossy magazine
to be dedicated to Science Fiction. Future signs an exclusive agreement with Sony to publish the new Official PlayStation
Magazine in the UK.
•1996
Future acquires music-making publications Guitarist, Guitar Techniques and Rhythm. The technology magazine, T3 is
launched
.•2001 Future signs an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Microsoft to publish the Official Xbox Magazine.
•2010 Tap! The iPhone and iPad magazine is launched in print, digital and online. Future launches 14 iPad apps and
TechRadar passes the 1.72 million monthly UK unique users mark for the first time
•2012 T3 becomes the first UK magazine to publish independently verified figures for interactive iPad edition sales
