Publishing Houses and Distribution.

IPC stands for International Publishing

Corporation. IPC Media is one of the United Kingdoms leading consumer magazine and digital publishers which sells over 350 million copies each year.

IPC Media groups its current titles under three magazine divisions each focusing on a core audience.
- Connect mass market women - SouthBank upmarket women - Inspire men

IPC Newspapers including The People and The Sun (soon sold), as well as the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial IPC Magazines consumer magazines and comics IPC Trade and Technical specialist magazines (later known as IPC Business Press Ltd.)
IPC Books all book publishing (headed by Paul Hamlyn, whose own company had been acquired by IPC). IPC Printing all non-newspaper printing operations (headed by Arnold Quick, whose own company had also been acquired by IPC).

IPC New Products launching pad for products which used new technology (headed by Alistair McIntosh).

 Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately owned and under management by the Bauer family. Q - started out as a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Originally it was to be called Cue (named after the act of cueing a record to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine. Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth felt the music press of the time ignored a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs then still a new technology from artists such as Paul Simon, Level 42, and Dire Straits. Modelled after Rolling Stone, Q was first published in 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing, with an emphasis on style. Kerrang! - TV specialises in Rock Music. As of 2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from their playlist. It is based on format of Kerrang! brand from Bauer which also exists in Kerrang Radio and Kerrang! magazine