Future plc

Future plc is a British media company with publications in the UK, Australia and the United States. It moved more than 200 journals in the fields of computer games, technology, automotive, cycling, film and photography, and reached by its own account 50 million monthly customers (as of Annual Report 2012). Future routed among others in the English-speaking world the official computer game magazines of the three console manufacturers Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the FTSE Fledgling Index.

Company History

The company was founded in 1985 under the name Future Publishing Chris Anderson in Somerton ( Somerset ). At this time the company moved exclusively to the magazine Amstrad Action. As the first company in the free software applied on their title pages.

1994 Future for Anderson sold 52.7 million pounds sterling at Pearson plc, the company bought British pounds in 1998 along with Future CEO Greg Ingham and Apax Venture Partners for 142 million back. 2001 Anderson left Future.

In Germany Future was represented on the Future -Verlag in Munich. This moved, inter alia, computer game magazines Power Play, video games and PC players. In April 2001, Future presented due to the loss of its German subsidiary of an all activities on the German market, the futures publisher was terminated and numerous magazines.

2006 Future was the sixth-largest publisher in the UK. In November 2009, Future for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009 was a decline in profits by 61% from 9.5 to 3.7 million British pounds known. Future attributed this to problems in the U.S. business, which was affected by a general decline in the advertising market. In March 2010, presaged future that it was reviewing the possible revival of the TV show GamesMaster. The computer game show originally ran from 1992 to 1998, the magazine offshoot was further postponed.

In January 2012 futures sold his music formats in the U.S., including the magazines Guitar World and Revolver, for $ 3 million dollars of New Bay Media. In April 2013, the sale of a large part of the British music formats for 10.2 million British pounds to the company team rock was completed.

Publications

• 3D World
• . net
• Computer Music
• Edge
• Fast Car
• ImagineFX
• Games Master
• Guitarist
• Linux Format
• MacFormat
• Mountain Biking UK
• PC Gamer
• PC Format
• Procycling
• Official Nintendo Magazine
• Official Xbox Magazine
• Rhythm
• SFX
• T3
• Tap!
• Total Film
• Total Guitar
• Triathlon Plus
• Windows: The Official Magazine
• Your Family Tree

• MacLife
• Maximum PC
• Official Xbox Magazine
• PC Gamer
• Windows: The Official Magazine

• Computer and Videogames
• Cyclingnews.com
• GamesRadar
• Gizmodo
• Music radar
• Techradar

Discontinued Publications

• 8000 Plus
• ACE
• Amiga format
• Amiga Power
• Amstrad Action
• Commodore format
• DC - TIPS
• DC UK
• ICar
• Inside United
• Mega
• Nintendo Gamer
• NGC Magazine
• PC Answers
• PC Plus
• PC Zone
• Planet PC
• PSM3
• Super Play
• Sega Power
• ST / Amiga Format
• ST format
• Total!
• Xbox World
• Your Sinclair

• Nintendo Power
• Nvision
• PlayStation: The Official Magazine
• PC Accelerator

• Business 2.0
• Dreamcast - The Official Magazine
• Kids Games
• PC Player
• Power Play
• PSM2
• T3 Techlife
• Video Games

• Daily radar
• Powerplay.de