Institution researchPublishing houses

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. It was founded in 1875 and has been owned by five generations of the Bauer family

Both these magazines are concentrated

on music.

This magazine can be linked to the other two

because all three are based on

entertainment, Empire is purely based on movie

news and reviews.

The Land rover owner magazine is for people who are interested in land and range rovers. This has nothing

to do with entertainment. This shows that Bauer has a large range of magazine genres.

Bauer, the publisher of titles including FHM, Heat and Grazia, has reported a double-digit fall in pre-tax profits to £57m last year.

In 1994, the company bought a small magazine called For Him Magazine which is now the core of the best-selling international multi-platform brand FHM.

Bauer media have multiple target audiences as they have a range of magazines, TV and radio stations. Their TV and radio stations are more

based on music and gossip. However they have large collection of magazine brands for different people with different interests.

With operations in the UK, US and Australia, Future has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Founded in 1985 as a UK company with just one magazine; Amstrad Action. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software of magazine covers, the first company to do so. Today Future specializes in high-quality multi-media products, creating over 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events.

These magazine titles suggest that Future publishing mainly publishes magazines that are about games, technology and entertainment. They also have tutorial magazines such as ‘Practical Photoshop’, Windows 7: Help and advice’ and ‘Mac Format’.

Futures sells over 2.2 million magazines every month and it exports to 89 countries making it the UK’s number one exporter for magazine content. Today it also employs 1,200 people in offices in London, Bath, San Francisco and Sydney.Future Publishing, home to titles including Total Film and Classic Rock, has reported a 45% fall in pre-tax profits in the six months to the end of March.Future said that the market remains challenging, with revenues falling by 4% year on year to £68m. More than a third of its ad revenues came from online sales, with its digital operation making a profit for the first time.Circulation income, which accounts for more than half (58%) of the company's total revenues, fell 7% to £40m. Advertising revenues fell 4% to £20.4m, of which £7.9m came from online, a 30% increase year on year.

With more than 60 iconic brands - including Decanter, Country Life, Horse & Hound, NME, What's On TV and Wallpaper* - Time Inc. UK (formerly IPC Media) creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and experiences.

Time Inc. UK is a subsidiary of Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME), one of the largest media companies in the world reaching more than 130 million consumers each month across multiple platforms through influential brands such as Time, People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Real Simple, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Wallpaper and NME. With 50 editions of Time Inc. magazines licensed in more than 30 countries ranging from Germany to Turkey to China, the Time Inc. global portfolio touches all corners of the world. Time Inc. connects audiences through shared experiences, celebrated events and franchises including the Fortune 500, Time 100, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and the Essence Festival.

IPC (Time Inc.), publisher of Look, NME and Marie Claire, has reported a 23% lift in pre-tax profit to £45m in 2011, in contrast to rival Bauer Consumer Media, whose profits dropped 9.5% to £57.3m in the same year.