Are Media is an Australian media company. It was formed after the 2020 purchase of the assets of
Bauer Media Australia, which had in turn acquired the assets of
Pacific Magazines, AP Magazines and Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) during the 2010s. It is owned by the Sydney investment firm
Mercury Capital.
The Daily Telegraph was sold to
News Limited in 1972; the same year ACP founded Cleo and took over Publishers Holdings (including Australian House & Garden, Wheels, and others).[2][3] Two years later, Frank Packer died, and his son
Kerry took over the company.[citation needed]
Pacific Magazines was a magazine publisher operating in Australia, owned by
Seven West Media. It was acquired by Bauer Media Australia in April 2020.[6] In June 2020,
Mercury Capital acquired Pacific Magazines as part of its purchase of Bauer's former Australian and New Zealand assets.[7][8]
In September 2012,
Nine Entertainment announced that it had agreed to sell ACP Magazines to the German multinational publishing company
Bauer Media for an estimated A$500 million, with the sale completed on 1 October 2012.[9][10][11] ACP was rebranded as Bauer Media Australia.[4]
The publisher had many tie-ins with other Nine Entertainment Co. companies, such as Nine Network programs (Burke's Backyard and Good Medicine) and the
Magshop web service, which is now operated by Bauer Media Group.[citation needed]
In mid-July 2020, Mercury Capital announced that it would resume publishing several former Bauer titles including Woman's Day, the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, The Australian Women's Weekly NZ, home category magazine Your Home & Garden, current affairs weekly New Zealand Listener,
Air New Zealand's in-flight magazine
Kia Ora, the Property Press, and the websites
Now to Love,
Homes to Love and
Beauty Heaven.[21][22][23] However, Mercury Capital closed down several publications including NW and Good Health, and the Australian editions of Elle, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Men's Health, OK!, Women's Health.[24][25][26] In addition, Mercury Capital sold the New Zealand titles
Metro to independent publisher Simon Chesterman and North & South to independent publishers Konstantin Richter and Verena Friederike Hasel respectively.[21][22]
In late September 2020, Bauer Media Australia was rebranded as Are Media.[27] As part of the rebrand and relaunch, the company's CEO Brendon Hill confirmed that Are Media would be relaunching several titles including the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, New Zealand Listener, Woman's Day, The Australian Women's Weekly, Your Home and Garden, and Air New Zealand's inflight magazine Kia Ora.[28][29]
In late June 2023, Are Media partnered with New Zealand media company
NZME to launch an online version of the New Zealand Listener called "Listener.co.nz." The website is hosted on The New Zealand Herald's website and features exclusive digital content.[30]
^Sharp, Annette (3 August 2012).
"The birth of a media empire". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney.
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