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IPC Media

IPC (International Publishing Company) is a consumer magazines publisher, with a wide-ranging portfolio including titles such as Now, Marie Claire, Loaded, Nuts, NME and TV Times.

The company was formed in 1963 from the merger of three publishers; George Newnes, Odhams Press and Fleetway Publications.

These three component parts had been on the publishing scene since the late 1880s. IPC inherited a string of heritage titles, including Country Life, Woman's Weekly and Ideal Home.

The company was renamed IPC Magazines in 1968, and became IPC Media in 2000. It is owned by Time Inc, which bought the publisher for £1.15bn in 2001.

IPC is largely considered to be the pioneer of today's booming "lads' mag" sector, when it launched Loaded in 1994.

Today, IPC's magazine titles are divided into five distinct portfolios: IPC Connect, IPC SouthBank (women's titles), IPC tx, IPC ignite! (men's) and IPC Country & Leisure.

Recent launches from the publishing giant include Nuts, the weekly men's magazine, in January 2004, and Pick Me Up in January 2005.