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Company type | Public limited company |
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Industry | Publishing |
Founded | 1947 |
Headquarters | London, UK |
Key people | Adam Broadbent: Chairman Ian Griffiths: CFO Paul Keenan: CEO - Emap Consumer Media |
Revenue | / Turnover £1.154 Billion GBP (2006) |
£223 Million GBP (2006) | |
Number of employees | 5,500~ |
Website | www.emap.com |
EMAP plc (LSE: EMA) is a British media company, specializing in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. It also owns several radio and television stations. "EMAP" is an abbreviation of East Midland Allied Press. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange. After a period as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, it has been demoted to the FTSE 250 Index with effect from 16 September 2005.
The group is structurally divided into main branches: "EMAP Consumer Media", "EMAP Communications", "EMAP Radio" and "EMAP Advertising". On 20 June 2006 "EMAP France" was sold to Italian press group Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. for €545 million. On 29 September 2006, "EMAP France" became officially "Mondadori France".
EMAP Radio
EMAP operates seven DAB multiplexes and also three jointly owned multiplexes with UTV which EMAP owns 30%. In addition, EMAP Radio now owns 40 UK and Ireland local commercial radio stations. On 21 June 2005, EMAP acquired 21 radio stations from its purchase of Scottish Radio Holdings.
Twenty of its local contemporary music radio stations based across the north of the United Kingdom are marketed as the Big City Network whilst each of these has a sister station. In England, the stations play oldies jointly marketed as Magic Radio whilst in Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are marketed separately playing similar music to the Magic stations.
EMAP magazines
EMAP's magazines are run by two divisions: EMAP Consumer Media, which encompasses its consumer-oriented magazines, and EMAP Communications, which encompasses its business-to-business portfolio. It has over 150 magazines (or "brands" as they are called internally) in the UK and France, including FHM, Q magazine, and Top Santé. Here are some magazines that are currently owned by EMAP:
- Architects' Journal
- Architectural Review
- Arena
- Bliss
- Bike Magazine
- Closer
- Drapers
- Empire
- FHM
- First
- Grazia
- Heat
- Kerrang!
- MATCH!
- Max Power
- Parker's
- Q
- Zoo
- Motorcycle News (MCN)
- Practical Fishkeeping
- Practical Classics
- Trout and Salmon
- Practical Photography
- CAR magazine
Former EMAP Magazines
EMAP ceased publishing many magazines in its history, in particular was a move away from the computing genre during the mid-90s. Here are magazines formerly published by EMAP:
- Computer and Video Games
- CU Amiga Magazine
- Eye magazine – Issue numbers 13–25, 1994–1997.
- Internet Magazine
- Mean Machines
- Nintendo Official Magazine
- Sinclair User
- ST Review
- The One
- The Face
- Smash Hits