Monocle – a Boy's Own Economist
First – Emap tries to establish weekly news sector for women
Grazia – 2005 launch cost £12m to create weekly fashion sector
2004: style icon The Face closes
2002: Dazed & Confused tries to change the face of car magazines with Intersection
2001: Glamour success
1999: The Net from Haymarket
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Magazine launches, closures and events
Magazines from 1960 to 2008 are listed on these yearly pages by their cover date, although a January 2021 issue would usually be on sale by mid-December
2020. See Magforum blog
- 2008 See Magforum blog; Magforum censored by Google; News of the World launches Fabulous; Magicalia to buy Practical Parenting
- 2007 Emap sells up; Future sells French arm; French arm to Grazia; Cosmo Girl closes; Baueer closes In the Know; Death Ray launch; Portfolio launch; Jellyfish digital magazine launches and closes; Happy closes; So London opens and closes; Vanity Fair weekly for Germany; Monocle from Tyler Brûlé
- 2006 Emap sells French arm to Grazia publisher
Mondadori; Emap launches weekly women's news magazine, First;
Burda buys Essential; Inside Out and Love It!
from News Magazines; BBC sells Origin; Emap closes Smash
Hits; Highbury closes down
- 2005
News International sells Times Educational Supplement;
Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan buys Press
Gazette; Highbury on the ropes despite selling 38 titles
to Future for £30m. UK titles expand overseas – OK!
takes on People in US; Time Out in Chicago;
Woman & Home in South Africa; Wallpaper
in Russia; Zoo in Spain. Big launches with Grazia
from Emap; Full House from Burda; TV Easy
and Pick Me Up from IPC; Psychologies from HFUK;
Condé Nast launches Easy Living and Men's
Vogue (US). IPC's Nuts stays ahead of
Emap's Zoo
2004
IPC's Nuts beats Emap's Zoo in first
round of battle for leadership in men's weekly sector – and
see off Bauer's Cut; eighties icon The Face, Jack,
J17 and 19 all fold. Nat Mags gears up for launches
in deals with Australia's ACP and Rodale in UK. BBC and Future
in buying sprees. BBC clips its own wings in magazines. Nat
Mags launches women's weekly Reveal
- 2003
BBC's Olive comes up against its own former
publishing stars with Seven's Delicious; former Emap
executives go all intelligent with Word; Dennis takes
over James Brown's IFG; Highbury swallows Paragon and Cabal
- 2002
Snug and Jack try to take men's mags
away from tits and bums culture... Emap follows up Heat's
success with celebrity magazine Closer ... Glamour
overtakes Cosmo (but at half the cover price says Nat
Mags)
- 2001
Glamour challenges Cosmopolitan's sales in its first year... IPC contracts and is bought by Time-Warner... Emap retreats from US... several women's launches
fold
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