Pacific Magazines was a magazine publisher operating in Australia owned by Seven West Media. In March 2020, it was acquired by Bauer Media Australia 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, New Idea, Who, and the nation's leading fashion brand Marie Claire. It has it roots in the Southdown Press, the publishers of New Idea and long owned by the Murdoch family. When News Corp Australia acquired the Herald & Weekly Times in 1987, the Australasian and Argus titles (Australasian Post, Home Beautiful, Your Garden) were added. Rupert Murdoch spun off his Australian magazine holdings in 1991 into a new company, Pacific Magazines and Printing (PMP). Seven West Media acquired Pacific Magazines in 2002, leaving PMP as solely a printing business. Two years later, Seven bought Murdoch Magazines, a former corporate sibling in News Corp Australia, from Matt Handbury. In 2016, Pacific Magazines took its digital assets back from Yahoo7 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 Seven West Media announced, that subject to gaining Australian Competition & Consumer Commission approval, it had agreed to sell Pacific Magazines to Bauer Media Australia. The sale was completed in May 2020. In June 2020, Bauer Media Australia including Pacific Magazines was sold to Mercury Capital.

Publications

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