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Bauer Media Group
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The portfolio includes print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer Media Group has a workforce of approximately 11,000 employees in 17 countries, Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987, under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became Britains third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media, the group acquired Australian magazine publisher, ACP Magazines from a London-based private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners, in 2012. That increased the turnover to more than €2 billion. In November 2010, Heinz Heinrichs daughter Yvonne Bauer became CEO, in the UK there are two divisions of the Bauer Media Group. The original UK business trades as H Bauer Publishing under CEO David Goodchild and its sister company is known as Bauer Media with CEO Paul Keenan. David Goodchild is also CEO of Bauers Australasian businesses, titles include womens weekly and TV listings magazines, namely Bella, Take a Break, thats life. This is as well as a number of puzzle magazines, in 1987 Bella was H Bauers first venture into publishing in the UK. In 1990, H Bauer launched a womens magazine named Take a Break. H Bauer also has a title, thats life. The H Bauer Publishing brand also includes puzzle magazines that carry the Take a Break name,1991 saw H Bauers first TV listings publishing with the launch of TVQuick magazine. TVQuick ceased publication in July 2010, in 1999 H Bauer launched TVChoice at a much lower price point than other titles on the market. TVChoice overtook its competitor in the February 2008 audited ABCs and has been the number one weekly newsstand magazine in the UK since. In September 2003, H Bauer launched Total TVGuide to cover the number of programmes available on Freeview. Bauer Media is a media group, with locations across the UK. Following their purchase of Emap in 2007, The Bauer Media Group acquired a collection of media brands and this includes heat and Grazia as well as a radio portfolio of national radio brands such as KISS FM UK and Magic, and regional radio brands across major UK cities. In 2013, Bauer Media also acquired the Absolute Radio Group from Times of India, Bauer Media also broadcasts TV music channels including The Box TV, in a joint venture with Channel 4
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Ascential
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Ascential plc, formerly EMAP, is a British business-to-business media business specialising in exhibitions & festivals and information services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE250 Index, Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian in 1887 and later purchased the Lynn News and the Peterborough Advertiser, he also started the North Cambs Echo. Sir Richard Winfrey was a Liberal politician and campaigner for agricultural rights, during World War II Winfreys newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey. The Peterborough Advertiser Co. the West Norfolk and Kings Lynn Newspaper Co. and commercial printing sections at Rushden, Kings Lynn, the magazine division was founded on a hunch when the companys printing presses lay dormant between printing issues of the local papers. The staff gambled that a weekly angling publication would be a hit - and this was soon joined by another weekly heavyweight when EMAP bought Motor Cycle News from its founder in 1956 for a hundred pounds. EMAP grew significantly in the late 1970s under the guidance of the successful partnership of Sir Robin Miller. In 1996 EMAP PLC agreed to sell its 65 newspaper titles, including the 300-year-old Stamford Mercury, scottish Radio Holdings was acquired by EMAP on 21 June 2005. In 2006, EMAP sold its French division to Italys Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, on 27 July 2007, EMAP announced that it was undertaking a review of the structure of the group in response to receiving a number of unsolicited proposals to purchase parts of the company. On 12 September 2007, EMAP announced that it had completed the disposal of its Australian consumer magazine division, on 29 January 2008, EMAP completed the sale of its radio, television and consumer media businesses to German company Bauer for £1. 14bn. In March 2012, the announced that it would be renamed Top Right Group. The EMAP name would continue to be used for the magazines operation, the database business was renamed 4C Group, and the events unit was renamed I2i Events Group. Then in October 2015 the company announced that the EMAP brand would be scrapped as all its titles move to digital-only format, in December Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential. The company was the subject of an initial public offering in February 2016
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Zoo Weekly
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Zoo was a British lads magazine published weekly by Bauer Media Group in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 29 January 2004, and for a time was the UKs only mens weekly after the similar, on 17 November 2015, Zoo announced on its website that it would be suspending publication. Zoo consisted of a mix of news, sports commentary, photos of glamour models, jokes. Zoo was a news magazine aimed at the male market. It was launched on 29 January 2004, as the second weekly mens magazine in the UK, the magazine was published by German company Bauer Media Group. The Zoo website is a continuation of the content that also includes original articles, videos. Readers are also invited to create a profile and post pictures via the Zoo Bloggers section, on 8 August 2013, a spokesman for Bauer Media announced that it would not be placing Zoo in modesty bags. The announcement came after the UKs Co-op supermarkets asked for publishers of lads mags to mask their explicit front covers or face being taken off the shelves, the Co-op said that it was responding to consumer concern. As a result of Bauer Medias decision, the Co-op ceased to stock Zoo in its stores, on 17 November 2015, Zoo announced that it would be suspending publication alongside that of fellow mens magazine FHM. An Australian edition of Zoo was introduced on 27 February 2006 with a promotional issue that was free of charge. The first official issue came out a week later on 20 February 2006 and it features Krystal Forscutt and David Boon as columnists, and much the same features as its British counterpart, except the sport commentary is mainly rugby league and Australian rules football. Spokesperson/models used regularly in Zoo Weekly included Brooke Evers, former Big Brother Australia contestants Krystal Forscutt, Emma Cornell, resident sex and relationship advice columnists for 2009–2010, The Threesome Monica Lee Paige, Bonnie Edwards & Ardina Voogt. From 2012 til present day, the sex and relationship advice column is presented by regular cover model, on 16 September 2007, it was reported that the professional golfer Nikki Garrett had instructed her lawyers to begin an action against Zoo Weekly in the Australian Federal Court. On the 17 September 2015 Bauer Media issued a release confirming the closure of the Australian weekly edition. The closure of Zoo Weekly magazine encompassed all platforms, print, website and social media assets, the magazine was published in both English, as Zoo Weekly, and Afrikaans, as Zoo Weekliks. The edition was discontinued by February 2008, Nuts FHM Zip Ralph Lad culture Playboy 12. Http, //www. abc. net. au/news/2015-09-18/zoo-weekly-to-publish-its-last-issue-in-october/6786730 Zoo Weekly UK Zoo Weekly Australian edition Stealing content
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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Claudia Schiffer
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Claudia Schiffer is a German model, actress and fashion designer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as one of the worlds most successful models, in her early career, she was compared to Brigitte Bardot. She has appeared on more than one thousand magazine covers and holds the record for the model with the most magazine covers, in 2002, Forbes estimated her net worth to be around US$55 million. Claudia Schiffer was born in Rheinberg, a small town 15 kilometres northwest of Duisburg, on 25 August 1970 to Gudrun and Heinz Schiffer and she has two brothers, Stefan and Andreas, and one sister, Ann Carolin. Schiffer is fluent in three languages – German, English and French, Schiffer originally aspired to become a lawyer and used to work in her fathers law firm. In October 1987, at age 17, she was spotted in a nightclub in Düsseldorf by Michel Levaton, the head of Metropolitan Model Agency, shortly after this, she met Patrick Lafontaine at a beach resort, who then saw her connected with Elite Model Management. After leaving high school, Schiffer flew to Paris for a photo shoot. In the early 1990s, she starred in campaigns for Guess, co-founder Paul Marciano said in E. Forbes Top 15 Supermodel Beauties Who Made Bank, Guess. Name became really much more known around the world because Claudia, after several other magazine appearances including the cover of British Vogue, shot by Herb Ritts, Schiffer was selected by Karl Lagerfeld to become the new face of Chanel. In May 1997, Schiffer was featured on the cover and in the pictorial of Playboy, Schiffer appeared on the November 1999 millennium cover of Vogue as one of the Modern Muses. Named one of the most beautiful women in the world, her ability to appeal to a global audience assured a successful career spanning over 25 years. Other magazines Schiffer has appeared on the covers of include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, People, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, salvatore Ferragamo, Neiman Marcus, Gap, Dillards, Saks Fifth Avenue, LOréal, Revlon, Intergaz and Pepsi. From her appearances in a 1998 Citroën advertisement she allegedly earned £3 million, Schiffer still holds a contract with LOréal and is one of their longest standing ambassadors. Schiffer was a judge on Fashion Fringe in 2011, in 2012, she posed for Guess. Again, marking the brands 30th anniversary, Schiffer launched her eponymous cashmere collection during Paris Fashion Week in March 2011. The Autumn–Winter 2011 season saw her fashion design debut and was followed by a Spring–Summer 2012 collection, Schiffer made her film debut in the childrens movie Richie Rich, and then starred opposite Dennis Hopper and Matthew Modine in The Blackout. She then went on to appear in Friends & Lovers, Black and White, In Pursuit, Life Without Dick, films in which Schiffer has made cameo appearances include Ben Stillers Zoolander. She made a appearance in the music video for Bon Jovis Say It Isnt So in 2000
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Gillian Anderson
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Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE, is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, after beginning her career on stage, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files for all ten seasons. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt, The Last King of Scotland, Shadow Dancer and she will be appearing as Media in the upcoming TV series American Gods. Anderson is the co-writer of The EarthEnd Saga novel trilogy and the guide book WE. Aside from film and TV, Anderson has taken on the stage, Anderson has been active in supporting numerous charities and humanitarian organizations. She is a spokesperson for the Neurofibromatosis Network and a co-founder of South African Youth Education for Sustainability. Anderson was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2016 for her services to drama. Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Posie Alyce, a computer analyst, and Homer Edward Ed Anderson III and she is of English, German, and Irish ancestry. Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to London, the family relocated so that her father could attend the London Film School. She spent her growing up in north Londons Crouch End. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School, when Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They continued to have a flat in London, where she spent her summers, Anderson later said that she has always intended to return to England. In Grand Rapids, she attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, following the move to Grand Rapids, Anderson went through a rebellious stage, experimenting with drugs, dating a much older boyfriend, and having a punk appearance. She was put in therapy at the age of 14, Anderson listened to bands such as Dead Kennedys and Skinny Puppy. She was voted by her classmates, class clown, most bizarre girl and she was, in fact, arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into her high school in an attempt to glue the locks of the doors. She later managed to reduce the charges to trespassing and she also served as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. After graduating high school in 1986, she attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, Anderson also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britains summer program at Cornell University. Anderson is the eldest of three siblings and her brother Aaron – who was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis – died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30
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