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Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right.| Adrenalin
November/December. Alliance International Media. £2.75; 132 pages. Editor: Justin Evans Men's magazine 'that makes your heart beat faster'. Angelica from television series Baywatch on the cover Men's magazines case study |
| Real Health & Beauty
December 98/January 99. Attic Futura. £2.20; 100 pages. Editor: Mariana Van Coevorden Attic Futura profile |
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Tomorrow's World - closes
December. BBC Worldwide. Editor: Nik Berg '... the science and technology magazines sector remains a niche market,' said the publisher in Media Week. It had hoped for 80,000 sales, yet came in with March-May ABC of 61,314 BBC Magazines profile |
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Cream |
| Arcade
December. Future. £1 (£2.70). Editor: Matt Bielby Lara Croft cover. Aims to 'do for gaming what Q does for music.' Future profile |
| European - closes
14-20 December. Weekly tabloid magazine had relaunched on 27 November 1997 from broadsheet newspaper format (originally launched by Mirror Group under Robert Maxwell) Mirror Group profile |
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Total Film - with Star
Wars CD-Rom
December. Future. Issue 23 Star Wars CD-Rom Future profile |
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Vital
Winter. Gruner & Jahr. £1.95 132 pages. Editor: Helena Jaworski-Lang Health, beauty and fitness. Gruner & Jahr profile |
| ZM
Autumn/Winter. National Magazines. £2.80, 148 pages. Editor: Paul Colbert. 'For the man with everything' Nat Mags profile |
| Practical
Parenting on TV
November 23. IPC Masthead television title on Living channel IPC profile |
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Eva
- closes
November 18. IPC. 75p 'For the girl who wants it all.' January to June ABC sales of 152,800 were down by 30%. Had been repositioned in March as a girls' glossy from a Take a Break clone. Sept 94 launch IPC profile |
 Front: launch issue of the men's magazine with 3D specs |
Front
November. Cabal (second launch) Described as 'Loaded for teenagers'. With 3D glasses. Controversial as seen as aimed to attract teenage male readers. The Nationwide building society refused to advertise; supermarkets Sainsbury's and Asda returned 24,000 copies; but the publisher said all 400,000 copies of the print run had sold. Asda stocked a limited number of issue 2 Men's magazines case study Cabal profile |
| The
Real Homes magazine
November. Cabal (first launch). 80p, 132 pages. Editor: Sarah Bravo. 'Real style; real value; real ideas' Cabal profile |
| Chief
Executive Asia - relaunched
September. Asian Sources, 'Asia's largest trade publisher'. New name: was World Executive's Digest www.chiefexec.asiansources.com |
 Jazzie B, Linford Christie, Lenny Henry and Ozwald Boateng model for Untold |
Untold
June/July. Untold Magazine, London.£2.50; 116pp. Metallic ink used on cover. Ed/publisher: Peter Akinti Excellent editorial, design, cover and production make this black male lifestyle magazine stand out on the news shelves. Editor Peter Akinti had government minister Paul Boateng, comedian Lenny Henry, athlete Linford Christie, designer Ozwald Boateng and R & B producer interviewed for the first issue, and four of them modelled for the cover. Distributed by Time Out, so should get good coverage. Men's magazines case study |
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Deluxe
May. Wagadon. £2.50, stapled 164pp. Matt cover. (Closed January/February 99) Wagadon profile Men's magazines case study |
| BBC
Good Homes
May. BBC Magazines. £2, 140 pages. Editor: Julie Savill The 'must-have, can-buy magazine' BBC Magazines profile |
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Tomorrow's
World
April. BBC. £1 (£2.75), 136 pages. Editor: Nik Berg BBC Magazines profile |
| Living
etc
April. IPC.£1 (£2.40); 148 pages. Editor: Sarah Bravo First launch since buy-out by venture capital firm of IPC from Reed IPC profile |
| Food
Illustrated
April. John Brown. £2.95; 132 pages. Editor: Neale Whitaker Customer magazine publishers profiled Magazine industry sectors John Brown profile |
 Radio Times double-facing cover 14-20 March. BBC London. 75p The TV listings magazines played a clever trick with its cover design, particularly when it was shown on shelves in shops side-by-side. It showed film critic Barry Norman and director Resevoir Dogs director Quentin Tarantino. The company also used different covers some weeks, such as one issue with four different covers - each showing one of the four main characters from the children's series Teletubbies, Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. BBC Magazines profile |
| No
Limits World
March/Apr. Future. £2.75; 132 pages. Editor: Ali Stewart Sister to Italian title Future profile |
| Junior
March/Apr. Beach. £2.80; 132 pages. Editor: Chris Taggart 'World's finest parenting magazine' |
| Hello
- 500th issue
March 14. With Three Tenors CD Hello profile |
| Computer
Active
February 26-March 11. VNU. 99p; 116 pages. Editor: Jan Howells All in plain English |
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Red
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| The
Times Magazine - Saturday supplement
Sunday Times profile |
| Food
& Travel
January. Fox; £2.50; 100 pages. Editor: Gill Williams |
| Ministry
[Closed December 2002] January. Dennis contract for Ministry of Sound club. Editor: Pauline Haldane With Judge Jules mix CD Dennis profile Customer magazine publishers profiled Magazine industry sectors |
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- Adrenalin
- Arcade
- Chief Executive Asia
- Computer Active
- Cream
- Deluxe
- European
- Eva
- Food & Travel
- Food Illustrated
- Front
- Hello
- Junior
- Kosmopolitan
- Marie Claire (censored)
- Ministry
- No LImits
- Practical Parenting on TV
- Real Health & Beauty
- Real Homes magazine
- Red
- The Times Magazine (saturday)
- Tomorrow's World
- Tomorrow's World - closes
- Total Film
- Untold
- Vital
- ZM
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