TI Media Ltd. (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.
[1] The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, Newnes/Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace.
All of the companies involved had been acquired without any significant change in management, save for the appointment of Mirror Group directors as chairmen.
[4] IPC then set up a management development department in 1965, to rationalise its holdings, so that its various subsidiaries would no longer be in competition with each other for the same markets.
In May 1968, a boardroom coup had replaced Cecil King[7] with his deputy chairman, Hugh Cudlipp, a former newspaper editor.
[8] Cudlipp had no interest in management, and was uneasy both with his new role and with IPC's diversification into computerised publication and other new technology.
In 2016 and 2018, Egmont sold its remaining library of IPC/Fleetway to Rebellion Developments, who had previously acquired 2000 AD in 2000.
[22] In September 2018, TI Media sold its library of pre-1970 IPC Comics titles to Rebellion Developments.
[23] TI Media was acquired by Future plc on 21 April 2020 following shareholder and Competition and Markets Authority approval.