Mann (magazine)

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Mann
Categories Men's
FrequencyMonthly
Year founded1996
Final issueNovember 2015
CountryNorway
Based inOslo
Language Norwegian

Mann (English: man) was a Norwegian monthly men's magazine published in Oslo, Norway. [1] [2]

History and profile

Mann was established in 1996. [3] The target group was men aged between 20 and 40. [2] It contained feature articles, as well as material on fashion, movies, music and technology. [2] The editor-in-chief of the monthly was Knut Christian Moeng. [4] It was owned by Hjemmet Mortensen AS, and its publisher was Egmont Hjemmet Mortensen. [4] As of 2010 the company described the readers of Mann as the modern, confident, and active men. [5]

Mann was the second best-selling men's magazine in Norway in 2003 with a circulation of 16,000 copies. [6] Its circulation was 16,662 copies in 2008. [5]

In 2014 Mann was named as the magazine of the year by Norwegian Media Business Association. [4] However, the magazine ceased publication in November 2015, with the last issue appearing on 30 November. [3]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Mann (Norway)". Publicitas. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 Erlend Fossbakken (27 October 2015). "Egmont legger ned magasinet Mann". Kampanje (in Norwegian). Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "MANN is Magazine of the Year". Egmont. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  5. 1 2 Ann Kristin Gresaker (2016). "Sex, Violence, and the Religious "Other": The Gendering of Religion in Scandinavian Men's Magazines". Men and Masculinities. 20 (2): 230–253. doi:10.1177/1097184X15625311.
  6. "World Magazine Trends. Norway" (PDF). FIPP. Retrieved 23 May 2015.