NEA - Fashion Magazine Brief

Bauer History Bauer Media UK is an entertainment network of iconic, multi-platform brands and is Europe’s largest magazine publisher. Bauer was founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in its fifth generation of family ownership, the Bauer Media Group operates and one of the leading players in 20 countries including the UK, Germany, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and the USA and has 11,000 employees worldwide contributing to the success on a daily basis and publish more than 600 magazines.  In 1875 the lithographer, L udolph  Bauer laid the foundations for the global media company.  Ludolph set up a printing in Hamburg to produce business cards. He had various printing jobs; he launched the local advertising newspaper Rothenburgersorter Zeitung. This was later followed by Extrablatt am Montag and eventually in 1926 by Rundfunk-Kritik, a radio magazine which quickly reaches sales of over a half a million copies weekly. In the UK we reach 25 million consumers. Our portfolio i