
Bauer Media joined the Bauer Publishing Group in January 2008 following acquisition of Emap plc’s consumer and specialist magazines, radio, TV, online and digital businesses.
Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group consisting of many companies collected around two main divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely recognised and rewarded as being industry innovators.
In 1994, the company FHM magazine which is now a best-selling international multi-platform brand.
Women's magazine Closer was launched in 2002 and Britain’s first weekly glossy, Grazia, was launched in 2005. Today, Bauer Media spans over 80 influential brand names covering a diverse range of interests including Heat – the must have weekly celebrity title.
Weekly 12.4 million people listen to a Bauer Media radio station. Bauer Media owns the number one and number four commercial radio stations in London, Magic 105.4, which has held the top spot in London for seven consecutive quarters with roughly 1.9million listeners weekly. Bauer Media also own Kiss 100 which is targetted at a young, dance audience.
Bauer Media reaches over nineteen million UK adults across multiple media platforms, owning more than eighty influential media brands spanning a wide range of interests, including heat, Grazia, Closer, FHM, Magic 105.4, Kiss 100, Kerrang! and Q Radio.