Remnant Media was a British publisher of
magazines
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, especially
pornographic magazine
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s. Remnant Media published
Asian Babes
''Asian Babes'' was a British pornographic magazine which featured Softcore pornography, softcore photographs of women of South Asian, Korean people, Korean, Chinese people, Chinese, Japanese people, Japanese, Vietnamese people, Vietnamese, Filipi ...
, ''Readers Wives'', ''Horny Housewives'', ''Mega Boobs'', ''Mothers-in-Law'', ''Big Ones'', ''Just 18,'' and ''60 Plus''. Remnant Media also published the
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...
lifestyle magazine ''
Attitude
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Philosophy and psychology
* Attitude (psychology), a disposition or state of mind
** Attitude change
* Propositional attitude, a mental state held towards a proposition
Science and technology
* Orientation ...
'' until January 2007.
History
Remnant Media was established by Simon Robinson in March 2004 when
Richard Desmond
Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December 1951) is a British publisher, businessman, and former Pornography, pornographer. According to the 2021 ''Sunday Times Rich List'', Desmond was the 107th richest person in the United Kingdom.
He is the fo ...
's company
Northern and Shell
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* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
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sold a package of 45 titles, for about £20m, to Remnant Media in order to help reshape Desmond's image as part of his strategy to bid for ''
The Daily Telegraph
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''. The
Bank of Scotland
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became embroiled in controversy by lending Remnant Media £5 million towards the financing package.
In December 2005, Remnant Media created an offshoot publishing company SMD Publishing which was dissolved in July 2010. Publications under SMD included ''
Hotdog
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'' and ''
Front''.
Liquidation
Remnant Media entered administration in late 2007. The assets of the company were soon sold to Trojan Publishing, itself soon acquired by Interactive Publishing.
Trojan went into liquidation from 2010
and was dissolved by May 2013.
See also
*
Core Magazine
References
External links
Silicone Sex ToyInya Rose Toy
Companies disestablished in 2007
Adult magazine publishing companies
Companies with year of establishment missing
Defunct companies of the United Kingdom
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