Bauer Media

Bauer Media Group is a European based media company, which is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany and manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

 

Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of Bella magazine - a women's weekly magazine - in 1987. Under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became Britain's third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap Radio in 2008.
 

 

Yvonne Bauer is worth 2.8 Billion USD

The current CEO of Bauer Media Group is Yvonne Bauer, after her father transferred 85% of the company to her in 2010 and 5% to each of her older sisters, Mirja, Nicola and Saskia. She is the great-granddaughter of the original founder of the company, Johann Andreas Ludolph Bauer.

Bauer manages the following music magazines/channels:

• Kerrang!
• Empire
• Mojo
• Q
• Kiss
• Magic