Institutions

BBC Magazines:

BBC Magazines is a department of BBC worldwide. BBC worldwide are owned by the BBC. Profits made by the magazines go to the BBC which help to fund BBC programmes. Money used to produce the magazine, unlike the BBC television, does not come from the license fee payer.
BBC magazines is the UK's forth largest magazine publisher and they sell around 85 million magazines every year. It is the third largest publisher in terms of retail sales value and are the UKs number one publisher for subscriptions.
BBC Magazines publish 50 popular consumer titles which are regular publications across a range of sectors. One in four adults reads a BBC title every month, which continue on from the television programmes such as Top Gear and Top of the Pops magazine.
BBC magazines has growing audiences around the world, with 43 licensed editions of magazines in over 55 countries. They also have a joint publishing partnership in India and in Australia.
They produce a range of magazines that cover many sectors of the public including education, adult, pre-teen, and pre-school. Magazines they produce with an adult audience include Good Food, Gardeners World, Radio Times and Top Gear. They produce a range of pre-teen and teen magazines including Doctor Who, Girl Talk and Top of the Pops. They also produce a range of well know, popular pre-school magazine such as Bob the Builder, Teletubbies and Toybox.

IPC Media:

IPC stands for Inter-process communication. It is the UKs leading consumer magazine publisher who produces 85 magazines. Their magazines are read by almost 27 million UK adults, as well as having online brands which reach 20 million monthly users. They focus on five core audiences: men, mass market women, upmarket women, leisure and specialist and television titles.
IPC is owned by Time Inc who is the publisher department in Time Warner. Time Warner was founded when Time Inc and Warner Communications were merged together. They have major business in film, television and publishing. For example they own Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Boomerang, CNN aswell as Time Inc.

The five divisions that focus on each audience are: IPC Connect who control weeklies such as Now magazines and Look, IPC Inspire who control the leisure and specialist audience, IPC Ignite control mens lifestyle and entertainment, IPC SouthBank control womens lifestyle and home interest and IPC TX control the portfolio of television titles. IPC employs over 2,200 people.

Examples of magazines they produce for each core audience include, Men- Country Life, Rugby World, Nuts and NME. Mass Market women audience include Look, Now, Whats on TV and TV Times and the Upmarket Women audience magazines include Marie Claire, Instyle, Ideal Home and Housetohome.