ACP Magazines

ACP Magazines
Status Defunct
Founded 1936
Successor Bauer Media Group
Country of origin Australia
Headquarters location Sydney
Publication types Magazines, books
Official website www.acpmagazines.com.au

ACP Magazines (formerly Australian Consolidated Press) was an Australian media company. It published the Australian Women's Weekly and the Australian edition of Woman's Day.

Consolidated Press was formed in 1936, combining ownership of The Daily Telegraph and Frank Packer's Australian Women's Weekly. It was renamed Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) in 1957, and acquired The Bulletin in 1960.

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).[1][2] Two years later, Frank Packer died, and his son Kerry took over the company.

In 1988, ACP acquired Fairfax's magazines (including Woman's Day, People, Dolly, and Good Housekeeping).

In 1994, ACP merged with the Nine Network to form Publishing and Broadcasting Limited. In 1999, PBL acquired Crown Limited, and in 2002, it combined ACP and Nine into a new division, PBL Media. CVC Capital Partners acquired PBL Media in 2007.

On 4 September 2012, Nine Entertainment Co. announced that it was selling ACP Magazines to Bauer Media Group for an undisclosed sum,[3] with the sale completed on 1 October 2012. Bauer then ended the use of the ACP name.[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.

Magazine titles

  • Business and finance
    • Money
  • Computing
  • Fashion/Beauty/Home
  • Food, wine and travel
    • Australian Gourmet Traveller
    • BBC Australian Good Food
    • COLES
    • Gourmet Traveller Wine
    • Recipes+
    • FoodtoLove
  • General interest
  • Health and Fitness
    • Fernwood
  • Lifestyle home/garden
  • Major woman's magazines
  • Men's interest
  • Men's lifestyle
    • 4x4 Australia
    • Australian Auto Action
    • Australian Motorcycle News
    • FHM
    • Men's Style Australia
    • Motor
    • My Ford
    • Street Machine
    • Wheels
    • Zoo Weekly (Australian edition ceases publication after October 2015 issue is published)
  • Multi-media magazines
  • Music and Entertainment
  • Sports
    • Aust & NZ Snowboarding
    • Australasian Dirt Bike
    • Australian & NZ Skiing
      • Australian Mountain Bike
    • Inside Cricket
    • Inside Rugby
    • Outdoor Australia
    • Rugby League Week
    • Top Gear (ceases publication after October 2015 issue is published)
  • Subscription TV
  • Travel and Airline
  • Women's lifestyle
    • Babycare Book
    • Bounty Vision
    • Bounty's Mother To Be Bag
    • Bounty's New Baby Bag
    • Bounty's New Mother Bag
    • Cleo
    • Cosmopolitan
    • Cosmopolitan Bride
    • Cosmopolitan Hair and Beauty
    • Cosmopolitan Pregnancy
    • Dolly
    • Good Health & Medicine
    • Grazia
    • Harper's Bazaar
    • Madison
    • Mother & Baby
    • OK!
    • Pregnancy & Birth
    • Pregnancy Book
    • Shop Til You Drop
    • Shopping For Baby
    • Slimming & Health
    • Wondertime
  • Youth
  • New Zealand
  • Trader international group
    • 4x4 Trader
    • Australasian Bus and Coach
    • Australasian Transport News
    • Australian Motorcycle Trader
    • Auto Supermarket
    • BikePoint.com.au
    • Blue's Country Magazine
    • BlueWater Boats & Sportfishing
    • BoatPoint.com.au
    • Campervan and Motorhome Trader
    • Caravan Trader
    • Caravan World
    • CarPoint.com.au
    • Deals on Wheels
    • Earthmovers & Excavators
    • Equipment Trader
    • Farms & Farm Machinery
    • ihub.com.au
    • Owner//Driver
    • Plant & Equipment
    • Queensland Business Review
    • Supply Chain Review
    • Trailer Boat
    • Trade-A-Boat
    • Unique Cars
  • Trader Group New Zealand
    • Auto Trader
    • Trade A Boat
    • Deals on Wheels
    • Farm Trader
    • NZ Lifestyle Block
    • NZ Motorhomes, Caravans & Destinations

References

  1. "Publishers board sits on the fence". News.google.com. 11 July 1972. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  2. "Thomson gives up Publishers". News.google.com. 18 July 1972. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  3. "Nine Entertainment to sell ACP Magazines to Bauer Media Group". Acpmagazines.com.au. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  4. ACP Magazines to rebrand as Bauer Media
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