Instituitional research

Institutional ResearchBy Ayesha Patel

Bauer consumer media Top publishing companies:

Bauer Media Group is a large European-based media company that was founded in 1875, headquartered in Germany it has a revenue of

approximately 2.4 billion euros. This company manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world. Yvonne Bauer is the publisher and David Goodchild and Paul Keenan are the CEO of the company. Bauer Media Group entered the

UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987 and, under the name of H Bauer Publishing became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer expanded in

the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap Radio in 2008. H Bauer is a publishing brand that includes women’s weekly, Grazia,

Heat , Kerrang and Q.

Radio:The Bauer network is divisible into two main groups , the Bauer place and passion units, with place consisting of locally focused services primarily broadcast on AM/FM. Some examples of the radio stations they own are :• 96.3 Radio Aire (Leeds)• Radio city 96.7 (Liverpool)• Key 103 (Manchester)• 97.4 Rock FM• Magic 105.4 (London)• Kiss 100 (London)

TV:Bauer media group has 50% stake in the British television company box television, the other half is owned by channel 4.These music channels include:• Q TV• 4 music• Kiss TV• Kerrang TV• Smash hits TV

Other media platforms by Bauer Media

Conde NastTop publishing companies:

Condé Nast is a division of Advance Publications, is a mass media company headquartered at One World Trade Center in New York City. The company was founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast and has been owned and operated by the Newhouse family since

1959. Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications, Charles H. Townsend is its chief executive

officer and Robert A. Sauerberg is its president. The company attracts more than 164 million consumers across its 20 print and digital media brands. He launched his magazine empire in 1909 with the purchase of Vogue, Nast published the magazine under

Vogue Company and didn't incorporate Condé Nast until 1923.They publish magazines such as Glamour , GQ , Vogue , wired

and Easy living.

Top publishing companies:

Hearst CorporationThe Hearst Corporation is an American multinational

mass media group based in the Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Founded by

William Randolph Hearst .Its major interests include 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300

magazines worldwide. This corporation published magazines such as Company, Cosmopolitan , Elle and

Real people. They revenued 9 billion US dollars in 2014.

Publisher:

XXL MagazineThe publisher of XXL Magazine is Harris Publications. It is an

American consumer magazine publisher in New York city, it

publishes over 75 titles including XXL , Scratch and Revolver. Stanley R.Harris founded the company. In

August 1997, Harris publications released the first issue of XXL. It featured Jay-Z

and Master P on a double cover. In December 2006, XXL took over the struggling hip

hop and DJ magazine Scratch, re-branding it as XXL Presents

Scratch Magazine, it shut down a year later. The table below

shows the increasing growth of Harris Publications.

Publisher:

Vibe Magazine

Private equity investment fund Intermedia Partners, LP bought Vibe Magazine. They added Uptown magazine to Vibe's parent company,

Vibe Holdings. Magic Johnson later invested in the company and Vibes holdings merged with Black Book Media to form Vibe Media in 2012.In April, 2013 it was announced that Vibe Magazine along with

Vibe.com and VibeVixen.com had been sold to Spin Media for an undisclosed sum. Spin Media was thought likely to shut down Vibe's

print magazine by the end of 2013.

British PublishersAll publishers seemed to be based

in the USA however in order for them to publish British magazines

they have to build a smaller publication company of their

brand that separately works on the UK magazines.

some examples are :• Q magazine is published by Bauer Media which is American

• IPC media recently changed to Time Incur; this is a smaller

version just for British magazines. The bigger

publications company is Time inc which is an American

company.