Bauer Bauer Media Group is a large European based company, headquartered in Hamburg in Germany. It is now an international brand. It is publishes 600 magazines,400 digital products, 50 radio and tv stations around the world. Bauer does multi media products extending to printing in shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer has approximately 11,00 employees in 17 countries. Bauer publishes for brands including womens weekly and tv listing magazines such as take a break, that’s life!, TVchoice and total TVguide. Bauer is a multi-platform media group with different locations around the uk. The media brands include KISS FM UK and magic. Not to mention the TV brands including The box TV, in a joint venture with channel 4. They also publish for music publications including kerrang. It is the thirds largest publishers. It Is known to reach over 19 million adults each week. Bauer started off as a small printing house in Germany. It first entered the UK with a magazine named Bella magazine in 1987 under the name H bauer. Bauer further expanded with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media and Emap radio in 2008. Today it stands will a fully established business with many consumers each week. Bauer is privately owned publishing group.