Pacific Magazines was a magazine publisher operating in Australia owned by

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. In March 2020, it was acquired by

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in April 2020. In June 2020, Mercury Capital acquired Pacific Magazines as part of its purchase of Bauer's former Australian and New Zealand assets.

History

Pacific published leading titles including Australia's best selling magazine '' Better Homes & Gardens, Women's Health, Men's Health,

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,'' and the nation's leading fashion brand ''

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''. It has it roots in the Southdown Press, the publishers of ''

'' and long owned by the

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. When

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acquired the

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in 1987, the Australasian and Argus titles (''

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'', ''Home Beautiful'', ''Your Garden'') were added.

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spun off his Australian magazine holdings in 1991 into a new company, Pacific Magazines and Printing (PMP).

acquired Pacific Magazines in 2002, leaving PMP as solely a printing business. Two years later, Seven bought Murdoch Magazines, a former corporate sibling in

, from Matt Handbury. In 2016, Pacific Magazines took its digital assets back from

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and subsequently launched multiple digital products across Fashion, Entertainment and Home & Food. In 2017, Pacific unveiled its all new "premium user experience" digital offerings for ''Marie Claire'' and ''Women's Health''. This was subsequently rolled across their digital network including ''Who'', ''InStyle'', ''Men's Health'', ''Home Beautiful'', ''New Idea'', ''Better Homes & Gardens'', ''Girlfriend'' and ''New Idea Food''. In October 2019

announced, that subject to gaining

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approval, it had agreed to sell Pacific Magazines to

. The sale was completed in May 2020.SWM completes sale of Pacific Magazines to Bauer
Seven West Media 1 May 2020 In June 2020, Bauer Media Australia including Pacific Magazines was sold to

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Publications

Anime * ''

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'', a monthly children's magazine highlighting toys, gaming, anime, sport and entertainment. Fashion & Beauty * ''

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'', a monthly women's fashion magazine, based on the original French version founded in 1937 * ''

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'', a monthly fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine, based on the American magazine * ''

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'', a monthly men's lifestyle magazine, based on the American title of the same name * ''

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'', a monthly women's lifestyle magazine, the international version based on the American magazine * ''BeautyCrew.com.au'', the leading digital beauty offering providing how to's, news and product reviews. Entertainment * ''

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'', a monthly magazine for teenage girls. * ''

'', a weekly women's magazine. * ''

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'', a weekly lifestyle magazine. * ''

'', a weekly celebrity magazine, sister to the

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weekly ''

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''. * ''PracticalParenting.com.au'', a premium digital parenting destination with a pull out parenting section in the New Idea magazine. Home & Food * ''All Recipes'', Australia's best user created recipes web property. * '' Better Homes & Gardens'', a monthly home/lifestyle magazine and Australia's best selling magazine. * ''Diabetic Living'', a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine aimed at people suffering from

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. * ''

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'', a women's magazine aimed at mothers, based on the American publication. * ''Home Beautiful'', a monthly home decorating magazine. * ''NewIdeaFood.com.au'', a new gourmet food online product offering recipes with topical food news. Previous titles * '' Bride to Be'', a bridal magazine. (print edition ceased publication in September 2016) * ''Famous'', a weekly celebrity tabloid magazine. (print edition ceased publication 2016) * ''Feast'', a monthly magazine in partnership with

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(ceased publication in 2015) * ''

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'', a monthly healthy lifestyle magazine for women over 40 (the last issue by the company was published in December 2016) * ''Your Garden'', a quarterly

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magazine (ceased publication in August 2016)

References

External links

Pacific Magazines Corporate website
{{Are Media Magazine publishing companies of Australia Mercury Capital Seven Network