IPC Media the UK's leading consumer magazine and digital publisher, with an unrivalled portfolio of brands, selling over 350 million copies each year. It was formed as International Publishing Company in 1963 from the rationalisation of the holdings of three companies; George Newnes, Odhams Press and Fleetway Publications. In 1968 the company bought the Daily Mirror and became the IPC-Mirror Group. It was then purchased itself in 1970, by Reed Elsevier, who in 1974 separated the company into two groups, IPC, formed of the magazine publication holdings; and Mirror Group Newspapers, formed of the newspapers. The latter division was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1984. In 1987 all comics holdings were placed in a separate division, Fleetway Publications, which was again sold to Robert Maxwell. In the early 1990s IPC launched Loaded which launched a wave of 'lad mags'. In 1998 IPC Magazines, as the division was by then known, was subject to a management buyout, which was financed by Cinven, a venture capitalist group. The company was renamed IPC Media in 2000. Cinven then sold the group to Time, Inc., the magazine publishing division of Time Warner, in 2001. Sylvia Auton is CEO.

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Time Inc. To Acquire IPC From Cinven (From Time-Warner website)
History of IPC Media on the IPC Media website
Trinity Mirror Group History on the Trinity Mirror Group website
Reed Elsevier profile on ketupa.net