''Rugby World'' is a monthly
rugby union
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magazine running since October 1960. It is published monthly by
Future plc
Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photogr ...
and edited by Owain Jones who took over from long-standing editor
Paul Morgan in January 2012. Paul Morgan was long considered a leader in the industry,
the magazine is the world's top-selling rugby magazine and has benefited from a worldwide rise in interest in rugby following the
2003 Rugby Union World Cup
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.
The magazine was initially published on ''"the third Wednesday of every month"'' by
Longacre Press Limited (part of
Odhams Press
Odhams Press was a British publishing company, operating from 1920 to 1968. Originally a magazine publisher, Odhams later expanded into book publishing and then children's comics. The company was acquired by Fleetway Publications in 1961 and th ...
) which, in 1961, merged with
Fleetway Publications
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that mer ...
and again in 1963 Fleetway merged with a number of other publishers to form
IPC Media
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its ti ...
, though Odhams remained a distinct sub-company until 1968). The magazine was available through INI Sales and Distribution, 161-166 Fleet Street, London E.C.4. The original cost of the magazine was 2