Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media Group is a prominent multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Germany, with a substantial international presence in radio, television, print, and online markets, and an annual revenue of €2.2 billion. Bauer Media Group is Europe’s number 1 magazine publisher with over 400 magazines, as well as the number 1 commercial radio broadcaster on the continent, with over 150 stations. They have the highest circulation and reach in Germany, The UK and Poland. The group claims to have 200 million readers and listeners worldwide.
Bauer Media Group's history dates back to 1875 when it was founded in Hamburg, as Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, a printing business. The company has been family owned ever since, and is now in its 5th generation. Throughout the 20th century, the company diversified its operations and expanded its reach by venturing into magazine publishing and acquiring several popular titles covering a range of areas, including women’s weeklies (Bella, Take a Break, That’s Life), TV Guides (TV Choice, Total TV Guide) and film and music magazines (Empire, Q, Kerrang).
In the early 21st century, Bauer’s expansion was driven by a decision to enter the radio broadcasting industry through its subsidiary Bauer Media Audio. Bauer acquired popular radio stations across a number of countries, including the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Bauer Media Ireland
In the Irish market, the Bauer Media Group is operating through their subsidiary Bauer Media Audio Ireland. Bauer has established a strong presence through their acquisition of Communicorp, Ireland’s largest independent Radio group. The acquisition in June 2021 allowed Bauer to add several popular Irish radio stations to their portfolio: Today FM, Newstalk, 98FM, Spin 1038 and Spin Southwest (as well brands such as AudioXI, Go Loud, Off the Ball and Media Central). Since June 2021 Bauer has added two further stations to their group, Cork’s RedFM in November 2022 and iRadio in August 2023.
Through this acquisition Bauer Media Group also acquired the country's only national radio newswire, which provides national news services to 28 Independent local stations including iRadio, Nova, Mid‐West Radio, Northern Sound and Midlands 103, as well as the stations owned by the Wireless Group. As a result, Bauers content reaches 2.4 million people daily, almost double the reach of RTE.
Mother Company
Bauer Media Group
Business Form
Private
Legal Form
Limited Partnership (Kommanditgesellschaft)
Business Sectors
Broadcasting; Print Media; Digital Media; Digital Marketing; Online Comparison Platforms
Individual Owner
Other Print Outlets
Angling Times
Bella Magazine
Bike
Bird Watching
Car
Classic Bike
Classic Car Weekly
Classic Cars
Closer
Country Walking
Empire
Food To Love
Garden Answers
Garden News
Grazia
Heat
Improve Your Coarse Fishing
Land Rover Owner
LandScape
MCN
Model Rail
Modern Gardens
Mojo
Mother & Baby
Practical Classics
Practical Photography
Practical Sportsbikes
Rail
Ride
Spirit & Destiny
Steam Railway
Today's Golfer
Trail
Trail Running
Trout Fisherman
Yours
Télécâble Sat Hebdo
Maxi
Maxi Cuisine
Jeux de Maxi
Magdeburger Volksstimme
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Cosmopolitan (Germany)
Lecker
TV Movie
Tina
Neue Post
Auto Zeitung
TV14
Closer
Gourmet Traveller Germany
Meins
Tele Tydzień
Życie na Gorąco
Chwila dla Ciebie
Twój Styl
Twój Styl Man
Świat Wiedzy
Olivia
Pani
Car Polska
Other Radio Outlets
Today FM
Newstalk
Spin 1038
Spin Southwest
98FM
RedFM
iRadio
Absolute Radio
Absolute Radio 60s
Absolute Radio 70s
Absolute Radio 80s
Absolute Radio 90s
Absolute Radio 00s
Absolute Radio 10s
Absolute Radio 20s
Absolute Radio Classic Rock
Absolute Radio Country
Hits Radio Brand
Greatest Hits Radio
Hits Radio
Hits Radio Pride
Jazz FM
After Hours
Avant Garde
Best Live Jazz Performances
Big Band and Swing
Big Easy
Carnival
Crossroads
Dinner Jazz
Headliners
Jazz DNA
Jazz Funk Party
Move On Up - Funk and Soul
New Heat
Piano Jazz
Players Lounge
Relax with Jazz
Smooth and Soulful Jazz
Summertime
Vocal Expression
Kerrang!
Alt Rock 80s
Alt Rock 90s
Alt Rock 00s
Alt Rock 10s
Alt New Rock
Alt Rock Anthems
Alt Rock Party
Alt Rock Workday
Alt Rock Workout
Everything Emo
Fresh Blood
Full Metal Racket
Goth Rock Party
Grunge Garden
Kerrang! Radio Unleashed
Klassic Kerrang! Radio
Non Stop Headliners
Pop Punk Ruuules!
PWR Up Live
Rebel Rebel
The Moshpit
US Rocks
KISS
Kisstory
Kiss Fresh
Kiss Bliss
Kiss Dance
Kiss Garage
Kiss Ibiza
Magic
Magic Chilled
Magic Mellow
Magic Soul
Magic Workout
Magic at the Musicals
Magic 100% Christmas
Planet Rock
Acoustic Amps Off
Americana
Chilled Rock
Classic 70s Rock
Classic 80s Rock
Classic 90s Rock
Classic 00s Rock
Classic 10s Rock
Driving Songs
Hair Metal Heroes
Main Stage Live
New Rock
Party Rock
Power Anthems
Rock Ballads
Rock Your Workout
The Blues Bar
The Prog Lab
UK Rocks
Workday Rocks
Scala Radio
100% Baroque
100% Mozart
20th Century Classics
Car Journey Classical
Classical Bangers
Contemporary Classical
Dinner Party
Hit the Dancefloor
In the Park
Mindfulness Music
Movie Blockbusters
Piano Playlist
Screen Time
The Big Composers
The Classical Era
The Console
The Jukebox
The Romantics
The Study Space
Time to Sing!
Stand alone
Heat Radio
My Rock
Pop FM
Radio 100
Nova FM
Iskelmä
Radio City
SuomiRock
NRJ
Radio Nostalgia
Kasari
Radio Pooki
Radio 957
Auran Aallot
Radio Norge
P24-7 MIX
Radio Topp 40
Radio Kiss
Radio Norsk Pop
Radio Rock
Radio Vinyl
RMF
RMF 24
RMF Maxx
RMF Classic
Radio Comercial
M80
Cidade FM
Smooth FM
Batida FM
Europa 2
Radio Jemné
Radio Express
Svenske Pop
Vinyl FM
Mix Megapol
Gold FM
Other Online Outlets
Bravo
Cosmopolitan
PraxisVITA
Selbst
Wunderweib.de
Car
Closer
Empire
Grazia
Heatworld
Yours
Media Business
Online Comparison Platform
Acierto.com
Rankomat.pl
Srovnejto.cz
Zmarta Group
Digital Marketing
Sunrise System
Grupatense
Semahead
Artefakt
Widzialni.Pl
Media Central
General Information
Founding Year
1875
Affiliated Interests Founder
A lithographer, who in 1875 founded a business card printing company, that would eventually become The Bauer Media Group.
Employees
16,000
Contact
Bauer Media Group
11 Burchardstraße
Hamburg 20077
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 4030192499
Homepage: www.bauermedia.com
Bauer Media Audio Ireland
Marconi House
Digges Lane, Dublin 2
Dublin D02 FF61
Republic of Ireland
Telephone: + 353 (0) 1 804 9000
Website: www.bauermedia.ie
Tax/ ID Number
DE 118908077, Handelsregister Hamburg HRA 2968
Financial Information
Revenue (Financial Data/ Optional)
2.2 Billion Euro
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
Missing Data
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing Data
Management
Executive Board
Owner and CEO - Yvonne Bauer started her career as a trainee at the Hoffmann and Campe publishing house. After holding various positions at Bauer Media Group, she assumed control of the company in 2010.
Chief Financial Officer - Anna Sedgley started her career in finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She entered the media industry with a senior role at Britsh Sky Broadcasting, followed by several executive positions in finance and operations at Dow Jones, a News Corporation company. After taking on a senior finance and advisory role at artificial intelligence platform Afiniti, Anna joined Bauer as Chief Financial Officer in May 2021.
Chief Operating Officer
Paul Keenan's career spans journalism, publishing and broadcasting. He was appointed COO of the Bauer Media Group in 2021.
Chief Legal Officer
Dr. Gerald Mai joined Bauer Media in 2006. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Global Management Team as Group General Counsel. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Executive Board as Chief Legal Officer.
Non-Executive Board
President Publishing
Jan Wachtel joined Bauer Media Group in January 2023 as President of Publishing. Jan has held multiple senior leadership positions with organisations including BILD, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL Group and ADCELL.
President Audio
Richard Dawkins joined Bauer Media Group as Chief Operating Officer of Audio in May 2019.
CEO SEO Group
Miron Kłosiński started his career as SEO Consultant in 2006 at Sunrise System, which became part of Bauer Media Group in 2013. Miron then worked across all key areas of the Group's activities from business development, strategy creation and product implementation to training and development. He became SEO Group CEO in 2019.
Further Information
Meta Data
The number of employees and revenue consider the whole Bauer Media Group and are according to the company.
Very little publicly available information about the Bauer family.
Bauer Media Group owns over 1100 media properties – the vast majority of which exist outside of Ireland. Not possible to include them all here.