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Future plc
Type Plc
Founded Chris Anderson, 1985
Headquarters Bath, England, UK
Key people Stevie Spring,
Industry Magazine and internet publishing
Employees 1200+
Website http://www.futureplc.com/

Future plc (LSE: FUTR) is an international special-interest media company with offices in London, Bath, San Francisco, New York and Sydney. Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design Conference an influential annual conference Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The London Stock Exchange or LSE is a Stock exchange located in London, England. Future employs more than 1,200 people worldwide, and produces magazines, websites and events in a range of specialist sectors including games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. It publishes more than 100 magazines and attracts over 11 million unique users to its websites.

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History

Future Publishing was created in 1985 by an unemployed computer journalist, Chris Anderson, working with two colleagues from his house in Somerton, Somerset, England. Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design Conference an influential annual conference Somerton is a town in the English County of Somerset, on the River Cary, near Yeovil and Street, northeast of Somerset ( or) is a county in south west England The County town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It began with the publication of Amstrad Action magazine whose success led to the publication of further titles, including 8000 Plus (for the Amstrad PCW) and PC Plus (for PCs). Amstrad Action was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom which catered to owners of home computers from the Amstrad CPC range and later the GX4000 8000 Plus (renamed PCW Plus early in 1992 was a monthly British Magazine dedicated to the Amstrad PCW range of Microcomputers The Amstrad PCW series ( '''P'''ersonal '''C'''omputer '''W'''ord processor) was British company Amstrad 's versatile line of home/personal PC Plus is a Computer magazine published monthly since 1988 in the UK by Future Publishing. IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. [1] The lively style of writing and incisive, impartial reviews proved very popular, and the company expanded, moving to Bath in the summer of 1987. The company - by now employing two to three dozen staff - was a very early adopter of desktop publishing. The company rapidly expanded over the course of the next ten years, specialising in computing and gaming magazines. During the 1990s it launched many successful and influential titles such as the cerebral games magazine Edge, guide to "Tomorrow's Technology Today" T3 (since evolved into a lifestyle technology magazine) internet title .net and computer design bible Computer Arts. Edge is a multi-format Computer and video game magazine published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom. T3 magazine is a UK -based Technology magazine which specialises in gadgets gizmos and other technology Another long-standing success is multiformat gaming title GamesMaster - launched to accompany the television series of the same name, but going on to outlast it by many years, and remaining the UK's best-selling multiformat games title. GamesMaster is a monthly multi-format Computer and video game magazine published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Future enjoyed considerable success by developing specialist magazines targeted at enthusiasts, with both the writers and readers sharing the same commitment and knowledge of the subject matter. This approach hit its zenith with cult gaming title Amiga Power, a magazine that cheerfully attacked its own advertisers and other magazines within Future. Amiga Power (or AP for short was a monthly magazine about Amiga Computer games. Regrettably, if unsurprisingly, this style was not duplicated in other titles, but the company has remained focused on producing specialist titles for narrow audience segments.

Founder Chris Anderson sold his majority stake in the company in 1994, moving to San Francisco to develop GP Publications, a small US magazine company bought by Future in 1993. Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design Conference an influential annual conference Future was bought by Pearson New Entertainment Europe. Pearson plc () is a London -based media conglomerate. It is the largest book Publisher in the UK, India, Australia Several successful titles were launched in the following years including Total Film and Playstation: The Official Magazine - the company's biggest success story, becoming the third best-selling men's magazine in the UK - but Pearson struggled to achieve its goals and in 1998 was put up for sale. Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom 's second best-selling Film Magazine. The company at that time comprised of Future and Freench publisher Edicorp, both of which were acquired in a management buyout by the Future board. Chris Anderson backed the buyout and returned as non-executive chairman.

Ensuing success

The company expanded rapidly, opening offices or buying existing companies in Germany, Italy and Poland. It entered the US market with the purchase of Imagine Media - the renamed company Anderson developed when he first left Future.

Due to its specialisation in computing and internet titles, the company was an enthusiastic adopter of internet publishing during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, launching numerous websites based around its magazine titles and online-focused magazines such as Internet Works, Business 2.0, and the world's first email magazine Future Gamer. The " dot-com bubble " (or sometimes the " IT bubble " was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10 Business 20 was a monthly magazine publication founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson and journalist James Daly in order to chronicle the rise Future Gamer was an Online Computer and video games E-zine created by Future Publishing. Buoyed by its association with the internet and computing, the company floated on the Stock Exchange in 2000 and the share price rocketed to around £9. The success did not last, with share price and profits crashing as the dot-com bubble burst. The company avoided bankruptcy by a rights issue, large-scale redundancies, the sale of Business 2. 0 to AOL Time Warner and the sale or closure of its offices in Germany and Poland. Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City.

Following several years of consolidation, Future embarked on a new expansion campaign in 2003, acquiring established companies and individual magazines in the UK, France, and the US including PC Zone, Revolver, and Pregnancy and Baby. PC Zone was the first Magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. The company also launched into the children's market with new licensed magazines for the JETIX television channel, and the official Duel Masters magazine based on the popular trading card game. Jetix is a Children's television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. The term television channel generally refers to either a Television station or its cable / satellite counterpart (both outlined below is a franchise based on a Manga, Anime and a Trading card game. A trading card (or collectible card) is a small Card, usually made out of Cardboard or thick Paper, which usually contains an image of a In 2005 Future bought 38 titles from Highbury House , including Fast Bikes and Fast Car magazine, after the Competition Commission blocked an attempt to buy the company outright, citing a potential monopoly in games magazines. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. " Fast Car " is a Grammy -winning song by the American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. The Competition Commission is an independent body responsible for investigating Mergers market shares and conditions and the regulation of firms under United Kingdom

The company has specialised in producing officially-licenced titles and now produces the official titles for all three major console manufacturers in both the US and the UK. Its customer publishing arm, FuturePlus, also producers content for a number of clients.

Into the new millennium

With the appointment of a new CEO in 2006, Stevie Spring, the company has embarked on a strategy of focusing on six key themes: focusing on basics, core, geography, partnerships, audience and online.

With this focus, it has sold or closed more than 50 under-performing magazine titles and disposed of its Italian and French operations to concentrate on its English-language offering. Future licenses its magazine content to local publishers in more than 30 international territories and is currently one of the world's biggest exporters of licensed content.

Online, the company has invested and engaged in a rapid expansion of digital activities, most recently with the launches of Techradar. com, a computing and consumer electronics site and Musicradar. com, a site for music-makers.

It has grown its partnership publishing activity through its custom publisher, FuturePlus and its official partnerships with clients including Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sky and BT.

The current CEO of Future PLC is Stevie Spring who took over from Greg Ingham in 2006. The current Chief Executive of Future UK is Robert Price, who took over from Colin Morrison (formerly MD and COO) in 2004. The corporate motto is Media with Passion.

Key titles

Key magazine titles published by Future Publishing include:

Future also holds the official license for magazines from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo to publish titles such as:

Key websites

Key online sites published by Future Publishing include:

Popular defunct titles

References

  1. ^ Future plc - Company History (28). MusicRadar is a music-making website featuring product and artist news reviews music lessons and social network functions like Facebook and Myspace. GamesRadar is a multi-format Video game website featuring previews reviews features videos cheats forums and breaking news ComputerAndVideoGamescom ( CVG) is the web-based successor to Computer and Video Games magazine the world's oldest specialist gaming publication T3 magazine is a UK -based Technology magazine which specialises in gadgets gizmos and other technology Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom 's second best-selling Film Magazine. Many compact digital still cameras can record Sound and moving Video as well as still Photograph. Windows Vista The Official Magazine is a Technology Magazine produced by Future Publishing in association with Microsoft, and published Amstrad Action was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom which catered to owners of home computers from the Amstrad CPC range and later the GX4000 Amiga Format was a British Computer magazine for Amiga computers published by Future Publishing. Amiga Power (or AP for short was a monthly magazine about Amiga Computer games. Commodore Format arrived pretty late into the Commodore Computer magazine scene arriving as late as October 1990 DC-UK was a Sega Dreamcast Video game magazine Published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom. MEGA, subtitled '100% pure Sega Mega Drive ' was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom aimed at users of the Sega Mega Drive and later its PC Accelerator ( PCXL) was a Personal computer game Magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now a Subsidiary New Computer Express was a bi-weekly magazine published in the UK from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. NGC Magazine (originally known as N64 Magazine until Issue 60 2001 was a British Magazine specialising in Nintendo created consoles Sega Power, initially known as S The Sega Magazine, was a Future publication aimed at the Sega range of consoles including the Master System ST Amiga Format was a computer Magazine that covered the Atari ST and Amiga computers ST Format was a Computer magazine in the UK covering the Atari ST during the late 1980s and early 1990s This article is about Super Play the UK video games magazine There is a different article on the Swedish gaming magazine Super PLAY. Total! was a Video game Magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing. Your Sinclair or YS as it was commonly abbreviated was a British Computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers Retrieved on 2007-12-09. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city

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