IPC is owned by Time Inc., the publishing division of Time Warner Inc. The business is split into five distinct publishing divisions: IPC Connect, IPC Inspire, IPC Ignite, IPC Southbank and IPC TX. Alongside these is Marketforce, the UK's leading magazine distribution business.
IPC employs over 2,200 people, and it's their creativity, innovation, talent and commitment that drives its market-leading position in UK consumer publishing.
IPC History:
- The International Publishing Corporation Ltd was formed in 1963 following the merger of the UK's three leading magazine publishers – George Newnes, Odhams Press and Fleetway Publications – who came together with the Mirror Group to form the International Publishing Corporation (IPC). And IPC Magazines was created five years later, in 1968.
- But those three original magazine businesses each had their own illustrious history, having been established in 1881, 1890 and 1880 respectively, with a number of the titles they launched in the late 19th Century still being published today under the IPC umbrella. And when The Field, launched in 1853, joined the IPC stable in 1994 following the acquisition of Harmsworth Magazines, it saw our family tree reach back even further.
Media titles owned by IPC:
Aeroplane (magazines)
Amateur Gardening (magazines)
Amateur Photographer (magazines)
Anglers Mail (magazines)
Bird Keeper (magazines)
Cage & Aviary Birds (magazines)
Caravan (magazines)
Chat (magazines)
Chat - It's Fate (magazines)
Classic Boat (magazines)
Country Homes & Interiors (magazines)
Country Life (magazines)
Cycle Sport (magazines)
Cycling Weekly (magazines)
Decanter (magazines)
Essentials (magazines)
Eventing (magazines)
The Field (magazines)
4x4 (magazines)
Golf Monthly (magazines)
Volkswagen Golf+ (magazines)
Guitar & Bass (magazines)
Hair (magazines)
Hi-Fi News (magazines)
Homes & Gardens (magazines)
Horse (magazines)
Horse and Hound (magazines)
Ideal Home (magazines)
In Style (magazines)
International Boat Industry (magazines)
Land Rover World (magazines)
Livingetc (magazines)
Loaded (magazines)
Look (magazines)
Marie Claire (magazines)
Mini World (magazines)
Model Collector (magazines)
Motor Boat & Yachting (magazines)
Motor Boats Monthly (magazines)
Motor Caravan Magazine (magazines)
Mountain Bike Rider (magazines)
NME (magazines)
NME Radio (radio) UK
Now (magazines)
Nuts (magazines)
Park Home & Holiday Caravan (magazines)
Pick Me Up (magazines)
Practical Boat Owner (magazines)
Prediction (magazines)
Racecar Engineering (magazines)
The Railway Magazine (magazines)
Rugby World (magazines)
Ships Monthly (magazines)
Shoot Monthly (magazines)
The Shooting Gazette (magazines)
Shooting Times (magazines)
Soaplife (magazines)
Sporting Gun (magazines)
Stamp Magazine (magazines)
SuperBike (magazines)
Teen Now (magazines)
Total Golf (magazines)
TV & Satellite Week (magazines)
TV Easy (magazines)
TV Times (magazines)
25 Beautiful Gardens (magazines)
25 Beautiful Homes (magazines)
25 Beautiful Kitchens (magazines)
Uncut (magazines)
Uncut DVD (magazines)
VolksWorld (magazines)
Wallpaper* (magazines)
Web User (magazines)
Wedding (magazines)
What Digital Camera (magazines)
What's On TV (magazines)
Woman (magazines)
Woman and Home (magazines)
Woman's Own (magazines)
Woman's Weekly (magazines)
Woman's Weekly Fiction (magazines)
Women and Golf (magazines)
World Soccer (magazines)
Yachting Monthly (magazines)
Yachting World (magazines)
IPC Today...
- IPC Magazines is renamed IPC Media in 2000, a new identity to go hand-in-hand with a strategy based on being a brand-centric business.
- Time Inc. acquires IPC Media for a cool £1.15bn in October 2001 – the biggest magazine deal ever seen in the UK and the biggest transatlantic media deal of our time.
- ignite! launches Nuts, the world's first men's weekly magazine, in January 2004. Backed by an £8 million marketing investment, it's the biggest launch in IPC's history.
- After 30 years in King's Reach Tower, IPC announces in May 2004 that it is to move into brand new offices next to the Tate Modern in 2007.
- IPC Connect unveils the new generation Real Life weekly for women – Pick Me Up in January 2005. The launch is backed by a £6million marketing investment and with the largest sampling exercise in UK magazine history.
- In Feb 2007 IPC Connect launches LOOK – the UK’s first glossy high street fashion and celebrity style weekly magazine. In a joint venture with Groupe Marie Claire, and backed by an £18m investment, LOOK is IPC’s biggest ever launch.
