IPC Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation),^[1] a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

History[link]

Origins[link]

The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, George Newnes Publishers, C. Arthur Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace.

Fleetway[link]

In 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of a newspaper group which included the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial (now the Sunday Mirror), together with provincial chain West of England Newspapers, made an offer for Amalgamated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he was appointed its chairman. Within a few months he changed its name to Fleetway Publications, Ltd. after the name of its headquarters, Fleetway House in London's Farringdon Street.^[2]

Shortly thereafter, Odhams Press absorbed both George Newnes and the Hulton Press. King saw an opportunity in this to rationalise the overcrowded women's magazine market, in which Fleetway and Newnes were the major competitors, and made a bid for Odhams on behalf of Fleetway that was too attractive to ignore. Fleetway took over Odhams in March 1961.^[3]

International Publishing Corporation[link]

In consequence, King controlled publishing interests which included two national daily and two national Sunday newspapers (the newspaper interests being informally tagged The Mirror Group), along with almost one hundred consumer magazines, more than two hundred trade and technical periodicals, and various book publishing interests. This included the combined business interests of Fleetway, Odhams, and Newnes.

All of the companies involved had been acquired without any significant change in management, save for the appointment of Mirror Group directors as chairmen. In 1963 all the companies were combined by the creation of a parent (or "holding") company called the International Publishing Corporation (known informally as IPC). All of the existing companies would continue to exist, but as IPC subsidiaries.^[4][5]

Reorganization[link]

IPC then set up a management development department in 1965, to rationalise its holdings, so that its various subsidiaries would no longer be in competition with each other for the same markets. This led to a reorganisation of the Group, in 1968, into six divisions:

• 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).

All the divisions were headed by chairmen who originated in Mirror Group, except for Hamlyn, Quick and McIntosh.

Also in 1968, a boardroom coup replaced Cecil King with his deputy chairman, Hugh Cudlipp, a former newspaper editor.

Reed International takeover[link]

Cudlipp had no interest in management, and was uneasy both with his new role and with IPC's diversification into computerised publication and other new technology. In 1969 he therefore proposed to former Mirror Group director Don Ryder, who was then chairman of the Reed Group, in which IPC had a 30% shareholding, to mount a reverse take-over of IPC by Reed.

IPC-Mirror Group was thus itself taken over in 1970, by the paper-making company Albert E Reed, which then renamed itself Reed International.^[6] In 1974, part of the publishing interests of Reed International were separated into IPC Magazines Ltd (comprising the magazine and comics holdings) and Mirror Group Newspapers (comprising the newspaper holdings). The latter was sold to Pergamon Holdings Ltd, a private company owned by Robert Maxwell, in 1984.^[7]

In the early 1990s IPC launched Loaded, which began a wave of "lad's mags".

In 1992, following a merger with Dutch science publisher Elsevier NV, Reed International underwent a further name change, becoming Reed Elsevier.

Sale of Fleetway[link]

In 1987, part of the comics holdings of IPC Magazines Ltd (comprising those comics and characters created after 1 January 1970, plus 26 specified characters from Buster, which was then still being published) were placed in a separate company, Fleetway Publications, which was sold to Pergamon Holdings.^[8][5]

In 1991, Egmont UK purchased Fleetway from Pergamon, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions. The latter was absorbed into the main Egmont brand by 2000, having sold off the continuing titles (such as 2000 AD), and continued with only reprint and licensed titles (e.g. Sonic The Comic). IPC had retained the other comics characters and titles, i.e. those created before 1970 (except the 26 characters from Buster), including Sexton Blake, The Steel Claw, and Battler Britton^[5] One character, Dan Dare, was sold separately and is currently owned by the Dan Dare Corporation.

Time Inc. takeover[link]

In 1998 IPC Magazines Ltd was subject to a management buyout financed by Cinven, a venture capital group, and the company was renamed IPC Media. Cinven then sold the company to Time Inc., the magazine publishing subsidiary of Time Warner, in 2001.^[9] In January 2009 the company's chief executive became Evelyn Webster, replacing Sylvia Auton who had run it since 2001.

Current Publishing Divisions[link]

IPC Media groups its current titles under three magazine divisions each focusing on a core audience.^[10]

• Connect — mass market women
• SouthBank — upmarket women
• Inspire — men

See also[link]

• List of Fleetway and IPC Comics publications

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• TimeInc website

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IPC may refer to:

Look up IPC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• IPC International, a shopping center security company
• Ikano Power Centre, a shopping mall in Mutiara Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia
• India Pentecostal Church of God, the largest indigenous Pentecostal movement in India
• Indian Penal Code, a penal code for all of India including Jammu and Kashmir
• Índice de Precios y Cotizaciones, index of the Mexican Stock Exchange
• Intermittent pneumatic compression, a system used to reduce the risk of clot formation in hospitalized patients
• International Patent Classification, a classification system
• IPC Media, a magazine and digital publisher
• Iraq Petroleum Company, an oil company
• International Potato Center, a center of CGIAR that conducts agricultural and food supply research
• Imaging Proportional counter, a detector for ionizing radiation
• The IATA code for Mataveri International Airport
• International Poverty Centre, of the United Nations Development Programme

In biology

• Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPC), normal cell reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells
• Interferon Producing Cell, a type of dendritic cell, in immunology

In computing

• Industrial PC, a PC-based computer for industrial applications
• Integrated industrial PC, a PC integrated in a TFT-Display (e.g. 6026 IPC) for industrial or professional applications
• Infrared Processing Center, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Instructions Per Cycle or Instructions Per Clock, aspect of a processor's performance
• insulation-piercing connector or insulation-displacement connector
• Inter-process communication, data-exchange techniques
• International Planning Competition, a biennial contest associated with the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

In education

• International Preschool Curriculum
• Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
• International Pacific College, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• International People's College, Denmark

In organization

• International Paralympic Committee, an international non-profit organisation of elite sports for athletes with disabilities
• International Parachuting Commission, The International Parachuting Commission of Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
• International Panorama Council, an international network of specialists in the field of panoramas
• Intellectual Property Committee, a coalition of US corporations with intellectual property interests
• IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries, an international trade association for the printed board and electronics assembly industries

IPC may also refer to

• The three-letter IATA code for Mataveri International Airport in Easter Island, Chile

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Media may refer to:

Communications[link]

• Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
  • Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
  • Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
  • Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
  • Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
  • Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
  • Mass media, all means of mass communications
  • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
  • New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
  • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
  • News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
  • Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
  • Published media, any media made available to the public
  • Recording media, devices used to store information
  • Social media, media disseminated through social interaction
  • MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector

Computing[link]

• Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
• Media player (application software), a piece of software designed to play audio and videos

Fine art[link]

• Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

History[link]

• Median Empire, an ancient Iranian kingdom of the Medians (Medes) in north-western Iran

Life sciences[link]

• Growth medium, objects in which microorganisms or cells can experience growth
• Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials
• Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel
• A group of insect wing veins in the Comstock-Needham system

Places[link]

• Media, Illinois
• Media, Pennsylvania

Music[link]

• Media (album), the 1998 album by The Faint

Mythology[link]

• Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology

Ships[link]

• RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

See also[link]

• Media ecology
• Media meshing
• Media psychology
• Media studies
• Medium (disambiguation)
• Multimedia learning
• Kaus Media, a star system in the constellation Sagittarius

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