Information on Magazine Publishers

TimeInc is an American New York-based publishing company. It was founded in 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden. It publishes over 90 magazines including instyle and Entertainment Weekly. By the mid-1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aware that most publishers were opposed to him, issued a decree in 1943 that blocked all publishers and media executives from visits to combat areas. This lead to recommendations from Time Inc. based on how it delivered magazines led to the introduction of ZIP codes by the United States Post Office in 1963. In 2008, Time Inc. launched Maghound, an internet-based magazine membership service that featured approximately 300 magazine titles from both Time Inc. brands and external publishing companies. To this day the company is headquartered in New York City by the CEO Joseph A.Ripp.

Bauer Media Group is a large European-based media company with a multi-platform surface from locations across the UK. This company was founded in 1875 and has been carried on over the years by generations of the Bauer family. In the UK there are two divisions of the Bauer Media Group. The company which is formerly headquartered in Germany manages over 600 magazine brands, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world. There workforce across 17 countries consist of over 11.000 employees developing services for marketing, distribution, print shops and postal. The original UK business trades as H Bauer Publishing under CEO David Goodchild and there other division is known as Bauer Media (Bauer Consumer Media Ltd) with CEO Paul Keenan. H Bauer publishes brands and includes companies like Women’s Weekly and TV listings such as Take a Break. The Bauer Media Group acquired a collection of media brands. This includes heat and Grazia as well as the company having  50% stake in the British television company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4 including TV channels KISS FM UK and Magic. In 2013 they made a revenue of approximately 2.4 billion euros (1.7 billion pounds).

Condé Nast is a mass media company, a division of Advance Publications (an American Media Company). The company was founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast and has been owned and operated by the Newhouse family since 1959.
The company launched Condé Nast Entertainment in 2011 to develop film, television and digital video programming. The company also owns Fairchild Fashion Media and its portfolio of comprehensive fashion journalism brands including Beauty Inc.
Condé Nast is generally treated to be the originator of the "class publication," a type of magazine focused on a distinct social group or interest instead of targeting the largest potential readership. Condé Nast magazines focuses on a variety of subjects, including travel, food, home, culture, and other interests. Fashion and Lifestyle consist for most of their publications and digital assets so they focus on this larger section than the others.
The company attracts more than 164 million consumers across its 20 print and digital media brands. Condé Nast became the first publisher of an overseas edition of an existing magazine. They became committed to publishing the magazines at the highest of quality and even carried on those high standards during the Great Depression, when Condé Nast introduced innovative typography, design and colour. In May 2011, Condé Nast was the first major publisher to distribute subscriptions for the iPad.