Information on Magazine Publishers

Bauer Media Group was founded in 1875 in Hamburg Germany. Its portfolio has over 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 TV and radio stations around the world. Bauer media group brought Q in 2008 from EMAP, which started the music magazine in October 1986. Its circulation is approximately

52,000 and its frequency is monthly. Q annual a host music awards called the Q awards. In addition to this Q used to have a TV channel, which closed in 2012. In 2007 Bauer Media Group purchased EMAP. Bauer media group also publish and distribute Kerrang!, which has an approximate circulation of 37,000 per weekly issue. Alan Lewis founded the magazine and James McMahon is the editor. Its

first issue was released in 6th June 1981. In the early 2000’s Kerrang! Became the best selling British Music newspaper.

Time Inc. Founded in 1968 in England Time Inc has a large portfolio that sells over 350 million copies per year. It is formed of 6 divisions that are, IPC

Newspapers, IPC Magazines, IPC Trade and Technical, IPC Books, IPC Printing and IPC New Products

Future PLC is a media company that was founded in 1985 and was founded by Chris Anderson. In 2006 it became the sixth largest media corporation in the

United Kingdom. It publishes magazines for all 3 major games console manufactures. It owns a website for musicians called MusicRadar. It was created

in December 2007 and as of December 2008 it had 40,000 members. In 1984 they started publishing the Guitarist magazine that is a monthly publication that has a approximate circulation of 25,000 readers per issue. Total guitar, magazine was founded in 1994 and has an approximate circulation of 42,000 and it is the

best selling guitar magazine in Europe.