Company type | Division |
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Industry | Mass media |
Headquarters | Hearst Tower, , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Products | Magazines |
Parent | Hearst Communications |
Subsidiaries | Motor Trend Group (majority) |
Website | hearst |
Hearst Magazines is a division of Hearst Communications that oversees its magazine publishing business in the United States and abroad. Its headquarters are located at Hearst Tower in the Midtown Manhattan of New York City. [1]
It has an audience of more than 165 million readers and site visitors, directly engaging with 70 percent of all millennials and 69 percent of all Gen Z age of 18. [2]
In 2019, it acquired the rights to Autoweek from Crain Communications. [3]
In December 2024, Hearst Communications acquired Motor Trend Group and most of its assets from Warner Bros. Discovery. [4] The division was placed into Hearst Magazines.
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Mass media |
Headquarters | Hearst Tower, , |
Area served | Outside the US |
Key people |
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Products | Magazines |
Parent | Hearst Magazines |
Website | hearst |
Hearst Magazines International comprises eight owned and operated companies, nine joint ventures, and 45 licensing partners in 57 countries. The international division of Hearst Magazines controls more than 200 publications and 150 websites worldwide. [5]
The division was expanded after it acquired the international division of Hachette Filipacchi Media from Lagardère for €651 million in 2011. [6]
Hearst Corporation, its wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Holdings Inc., and HHI's wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Communications Inc. is a constitutional American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Lagardère News, formerly known as Lagardère Active, is the media activities arm of the French Lagardère Group. It owns the radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2, and RFM, the newspapers Le Journal du Dimanche and the magazine Paris Match.
Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Active, a division of the media conglomerate Lagardère Group of France.
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc., originally known as CBS Publications, was a subsidiary of Hachette Filipacchi Médias, and was based in New York City.
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Cycle was an American motorcycling enthusiast magazine, published from the early 1950s through the early 1990s. During its heyday, in the 1970s and 1980s, it had a circulation of more than 500,000 and was headquartered in Westlake Village, California, near the canyon roads of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Cycle's editors frequently road tested and photographed test bikes.
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