IPC Media Rebekah Ward
IPC Media
Rebekah Ward
• Parent company: Time Warner. They were founded in 1958 and are a magazine company.
• It publishes 130 magazines with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies this year.
• Time Inc. is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner. Which is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom.
Ownership
Operating Model• IPC Products is owned by arner.• Time Warner is a conglomerate that owns smaller businesses.• 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).
Competitors & Market Position
• Bauer Media produces many competing magazines.
• Kerrang
• Q Magazine