Who owns bauer consumer media

Utility navigation About Careers Contact us. About us. Learn more about Bauer Media in the UK and our management team. This website uses cookies. And according to one senior Bauer source: "They guard their privacy incredibly jealously and take it very seriously. They are a private company in every sense of the word. Lori Miles, who left Bauer in after a year stint working for the company during which she launched several magazines including Take A Break and TVChoice, is one of the few former employees happy to talk on the record.

He is a very shy man; that's probably why he has such a low profile," says Miles. But despite being quiet, there is no doubt when you meet him that he is a powerful man. Do you know that phrase, 'he speaks quietly, but he carries a big stick'? Well, that's Mr Bauer. A few months after the Emap deal, Bauer journalists in the UK said that few, if any, of the editors of what were Emap's prize possessions - super-selling consumer magazines such as Heat, FHM and Closer - had met Bauer, though the press office said that some senior managers and editors attended a Bauer conference in Hamburg in April.

What is clear is that the key editors were taken for lunch in the UK by Saskia Bauer, the youngest of the four Bauer daughters all of whom work for the firm - although in what capacity is debated. According to several senior sources, at these lunches Saskia was not introduced as a Bauer employee, but as her father's emissary.

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Next accounts made up to 31 December due by 30 September Last accounts made up to 31 December We visited every single one of our plus radio station in the UK with Heinz and Saskia in the last year. A flurry of recent activity suggests that Yvonne Bauer has ambitions to expand this global empire, which already extends to 15 countries.

This is a family that values traditional media assets, although Mr Keenan stresses that Bauer is developing digital assets too.

However, not all of the empire-building is going to plan. If Bauer had succeeded, it would control close to a third of commercial radio in Britain. Bauer executives were not too happy about losing out, not least because they didn't like seeing Global getting bigger. They have been busy lobbying in Whitehall in an effort to block Global — without much success so far.

Some observers think Bauer over-egged its case. Mr Keenan insists that the Global takeover will be bad for listeners if regulators give it the all-clear, even though he acknowledges that Bauer is "very profitable" in the UK.