*Bauer Media Group

*What it does

*Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 16 countries worldwide

*Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week

*The Bauer Publishing Group comprises 300 magazines worldwide in 16 countries, as well as TV and radio stations

*H Bauer Publishing Brands

* H Bauer brands include women's weekly and TV listings magazines; namely Bella, Take a Break, that's life! TV Choice and Total TV Guide as well as a number of puzzle magazines

* Bella - In 1987 Bella was H Bauer's first venture into publishing in the UK. Bella sought to make an impact in the UK magazine market by mixing previously unseen real-life editorial with the classic elements more traditionally associated with women's magazines such as fashion and beauty, cookery and practical home features

* Take a Break and that's life! - In 1990, H Bauer gained attention with the launch of Take a Break magazine. Take a Break sits in the true life market of the women's weekly sector and quickly became market leader with an ABC audited circulation of over one million sales.

*Bauer Media Brands

* Q - Q started out as a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Originally it was to be called Cue (named after the act of cueing a record to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth felt the music press of the time ignored a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs from artists such as Paul Simon, Level 42, and Dire Straits.

*Modelled after Rolling Stone, Q was first published in 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing, with an emphasis on style.

* Kerrang! - Kerrang! is a brand that specialises in Rock Music. It originally began as a magazine and in 2004 Kerrang Radio was launched.

*Bauer Radio

* The Bauer network is divisible into two main groups, the Bauer Place and Bauer Passion units, with Place consisting of locally focused services primarily broadcast on FM/AM and local digital platforms, and Passion consisting of national and quasi-national music-genre services delivered nationally and quasi-nationally through digital and in some areas analogue platforms.

* Bauer Place - Most stations are AM sister stations of Place Network, originally set up as their 'Gold' counterpart (e.g. for Radio City, Radio City Gold) when all stations were forced by the Radio Authority to stop simulcasting on both FM and AM in the late 1980s, before being rebranded as 'Magic' when the main station was bought by Bauer.

* Bauer Passion - Kiss plays predominantly rhythmic (dance/urban) music. The East and West versions of Kiss were previously SRH-owned Vibe stations. The three services now simulcast most programming content (from London), though retain the ability to split off where needed, including for local advertising and news bulletins

*Bauer Place Stations

England Magic 105.4 FM (London); Sky & Freeview across the UK and various DAB

multiplexes. Wave 105 (Solent) - adult contemporary City Talk 105.9 (Liverpool) - speech and light music 96.3 Radio Aire (Leeds) CFM (Carlisle) CFM (West Cumbria) Radio City 96.7 (Liverpool) Hallam FM (Sheffield) Key 103 (Manchester) Metro Radio (Newcastle upon Tyne) 97.4 Rock FM (Preston) TFM (Thornaby-on-Tees/Tees Valley) 96.9 Viking FM (Kingston upon Hull)

Scotland Clyde 1 (Glasgow and West Central Scotland) Forth One (Edinburgh, The Lothians and Fife) MFR - Moray Firth Radio (Inverness, Highland, Moray and parts of NW

Aberdeenshire) Northsound 1 (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire) Radio Borders (Scottish Borders and North Northumberland) Tay FM (Dundee, Perth and Kinross and Fife) 96.7 West FM (Ayrshire) West Sound FM (Dumfries and Galloway)

*Bauer Passion Stations

Kiss Network

* Kiss 100 (London); also on Sky and Freeview across the UK and various DAB multiplexes.

* Kiss 101 (South Wales and South West England)

* Kiss 105-108 (East Anglia); also available locally on some DAB multiplexes as Kiss 105-108 (as apposed to Kiss national) and Kiss Essex in Essex

* Kisstory; on Freeview across the UK and online (To launch on DAB in 2014).

* Kiss Fresh: on Freeview across the UK and online.

Absolute Radio Network

* Absolute Radio

* Absolute Radio 60s

* Absolute Radio 70s

* Absolute 80s

* Absolute Radio 90s

* Absolute Radio 00s

* Absolute Classic Rock

Digital-only

* Heat Radio - in various areas on DAB, national on Freeview and online.

* The Hits Radio - styled after the CHR FM network and taking some of its programmes. DAB in London and nationally on Freeview and online.

* Kerrang! Radio - nationally on DAB, Freeview and online

*Box Television

*Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4. Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels, which include:

* 4Music

* The Box

*Heat

* Kerrang!

* Kiss

*Magic

* Smash Hits

*Advertising

*Bauer media offers advertising opportunities in all of it’s magazines, which cover the genre’s:

*Women’s

*Women’s Specialist

*Men’s Lifestyle

*Entertainment & Music

*Specialist

*Bauer Media’s Advertising Rates

* Display Advertising x1

* Inside Front Cover £2,800Outside Back Cover £2,800Inside Back Cover £2,800DPS £3,950Full Page (First 1/3 of magazine) £2,600Full Page Manufacturer £2,400½ Page Manufacturer £1,300¼ Page Manufacturer £700Full Page £2,250½ Page £1,200¼ Page £650Guaranteed positions +10%

* Classified Advertising £30 + Vat SCC (5 columns) Minimum size 3 cm x 1 column

* Single page Advertorial including writing and Design (no photography) £3,000

* Loose inserts £38.00 per 1,000 (up to 10 grams)

*Audience Research

*Bauer Media provides an in depth analysis of a magazines audience demographics, to provide the advertisers with better knowledge as to better advertise their product.