The Bauer Media Group is one of the most successful and innovative media companies in the world. With approximately 400 magazines, more than 110 websites and around 50 radio and TV programmes, the Group is a global player in a sector that is developing rapidly and constantly reinventing itself. Modern, forward-looking activities combined with the continuity of a business in the hands of the same family for five generations and now run by publisher Yvonne Bauer is to thank for the stable growth and success.

On three continents more than 8,700 employees work passionately on creating the enormous range of media we offer readers, surfers, listeners and viewers in Germany, Austria, China, the Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, the UK and the US.

With 396 periodicals and numerous special publications in 15 countries and paid circulation of around 47 million copies per publication period*, the Bauer Media Group is one of the leading magazine publishers in the world.

The Bauer Media Group publishes 62 regular periodicals in Germany alone. Every second German reads one of its magazines. The Bauer Media Group is the largest publisher of general interest magazines in the UK, with 90 print titles, and in Poland, with 99.

With its top brands in the segments of People, Lifestyle, Fashion, Women, Culture and Special Interest, the Bauer Media Group delivers the best entertainment and information in the world to millions of satisfied readers and has, over decades, vanquished all competitors through innovation and expertise to become a leader in the international markets.

The core business of the Bauer Media Group is and will remain its print business. Nevertheless, the company is reacting to the growing importance of digital media at home and abroad with farsighted investments and has established a healthy position over the last few years with a broad range of digital products. In Poland, the Bauer Media Group owns the third-largest general interest platform, INTERIA.PL. More than 100 online products around the world offer considerable growth potential.

In addition, the Bauer Media Group is the second-largest commercial radio provider in the UK with 42 programmes on AM, FM, digital, satellite and the Internet in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Under the umbrella of the Grupa RMF (Radio Muzyka Fakty), the Bauer Media Group operates two of the most popular radio broadcasters in Poland, RMF FM and RMF Classic, as well as the broadcasting group RMF MAXXX.

In the 2010 financial year, the Bauer Media Group generated sales of EUR 2.1 billion. At EUR 1.26 billion, the share of sales generated outside Germany is around 59 per cent.

_{* IVW 2/2011 Germany, ABC United Kingdom and USA, publishing figures
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