Bauer is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe. The Bauer publishing group has grown from a printing house into a worlwide publishing empire with an annual turnover of £1.61797619. At the beggining of 2008, Bauer expanded its portfolio further by aquiring Emap's radio with the recent addition of the former Emap consumer media titles, Bauer is now the largest consumer magazine publishing company in the UK, playing a primary role in the womans weekles, womans interest, womens lifestyle, tv listing, puzzles, mens lifestyle, music and film and specialist magazine markets.
Bauer owns several music magazines including:
- Mojo
- Kerrang!
-Q
Emap:
Emap started life as a local newspaper company in 1947. Today Emap is a global media group, media, finance, fashion, health, education, government and automotive sectors the essential news, analysis and access they need to succeed. Emap does not currently own any music magazines, however have great sales in the magazines they own with a turnover of £284.9 million.
Emap owns several magazines such as:
Arena
Meed
Westside
IPC
IPC media producesover 85 iconic media brands, with out their print brands alone reaching almost two thirds of UK women and 44% of UK men - almost 27 million UK adults - while their online brands collectively reach 20 million users every month and have a turn over of £344.3 million.
IPC owns a single music magazine called NME, this magazine was the first to include a singles chart, and is a very popular music magazine.
My music magazine is a rock/metal magazine, and so IPC looks interesting as their magazine NME is in the genre of rock/indie, and as they have had great results and popularity by distributing NME magazine it sounds like a good option. However, they own just the one music magazine and it would be more reassuring if they had more music magazines, although their other magazines have had success.
