Are Media is an Australian media company. It was formed after the 2020 purchase of the assets ofBauer Media Australia, which had in turn acquired the assets ofPacific Magazines, AP Magazines andAustralian Consolidated Press (ACP) during the 2010s. It is owned by the Sydney investment firm Mercury Capital.
The Daily Telegraph was sold toNews Limited in 1972; the same year ACP foundedCleo and took over Publishers Holdings (includingAustralian House & Garden,Wheels, and others).[2][3] Two years later, Frank Packer died, and his sonKerry took over the company.[citation needed]
Pacific Magazines was a magazine publisher operating in Australia, owned bySeven West Media. It was acquired by Bauer Media Australia in April 2020.[6] In June 2020, Mercury Capital acquired Pacific Magazines as part of its purchase of Bauer's former Australian and New Zealand assets.[7][8]
In September 2012,Nine Entertainment announced that it had agreed to sell ACP Magazines to the German multinational publishing companyBauer Media for an estimated A$500 million, with the sale completed on 1 October 2012.[9][10][11] ACP was rebranded as Bauer Media Australia.[4]
The publisher had many tie-ins with other Nine Entertainment Co. companies, such as Nine Network programs (Burke's Backyard andGood Medicine) and theMagshop web service, which is now operated by Bauer Media Group.[citation needed]
In mid-July 2020, Mercury Capital announced that it would resume publishing several former Bauer titles includingWoman's Day, theNew Zealand Woman's Weekly,The Australian Women's Weekly NZ, home category magazineYour Home & Garden, current affairs weeklyNew Zealand Listener,Air New Zealand's in-flight magazineKia Ora, theProperty Press, and the websitesNow to Love,Homes to Love andBeauty Heaven.[22][23][24] However, Mercury Capital closed down several publications includingNW andGood Health, and the Australian editions ofElle,Harper's Bazaar,InStyle,Men's Health,OK!,Women's Health.[25][26][27] In addition, Mercury Capital sold the New Zealand titlesMetro to independent publisher Simon Chesterman andNorth & South to independent publishers Konstantin Richter and Verena Friederike Hasel respectively.[22][23]
In late September 2020, Bauer Media Australia was rebranded as Are Media.[28] As part of the rebrand and relaunch, the company's CEO Brendon Hill confirmed that Are Media would be relaunching several titles including theNew Zealand Woman's Weekly,New Zealand Listener,Woman's Day,The Australian Women's Weekly,Your Home and Garden, and Air New Zealand's inflight magazineKia Ora.[29][30]
In late June 2023, Are Media partnered with New Zealand media companyNZME to launch an online version of theNew Zealand Listener called "Listener.co.nz." The website is hosted onThe New Zealand Herald's website and features exclusive digital content.[31]
^Sharp, Annette (3 August 2012)."The birth of a media empire".The Daily Telegraph. Sydney.Archived from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved27 April 2021.
