ipc media

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