About
Time,
Inc., the
Corporation:
Time Inc. is the USA's largest magazine publisher. It is a leader in
direct marketing of
books,
music and
video and is one of the world's pre-eminent, broad-based
information companies. Time Inc. publishes
25 leading publications, with a readership of more than
111 million, and generated ad revenues twice as large as those of its nearest competitor as of 1994.
People, which celebrated its
20th anniversary in
1994, is the
No. 1 U.S. magazine in
advertising revenue. Time Inc. is also the country's largest regional magazine publisher, owning both
Sunset Publishing Corporation, home of Sunset magazine and Sunset Books, and the
Southern Progress Corporation, parent company of Southern Living and other titles and publisher of
Oxmoor House books.
Time Inc.'s direct-marketing and book companies distributed
159 million units worldwide in 1994.
Time Life Inc. is America's leading direct-marketer of books, music and video, and
Book-of-the-Month Club, with seven separate clubs, is the country's largest book club company. Trade publishers
Warner Books and Little Brown publish best-selling fiction and nonfiction. Time Inc.'s journalistic and information-based expertise has served as the basis for an aggressive expansion into
broadcast television,
cable programming and
digital,
interactive multimedia, including
commercial online services, the Internet,
CD-ROMs and Time Warner's Full Service Network.