Last week saw the launch of a new media business in Bristol. Launched on 1 November, Immediate Media Co publishes a large portfolio of market-leading and award-winning titles across a diverse range of consumer sectors, from wildlife to weddings, music to triathlon and craft to science. 
 
The new business brings together successful Bristol companies Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines Bristol, along with their shared service subsidiary Magazine Services, and combines them with BBC Magazines in London (publisher of titles including the Radio Times) and digital publisher Magicalia, in a deal backed by private equity firm Exponent. 
 
Immediate Media Co Bristol is based in the heart of the city, in Tower House, Fairfax Street, and employs more than 250 media professionals. The combined business in Bristol comprises 42 magazines, 31 digital assets and other branded properties and is now set to become a major player in the city’s creative media arena, reaching more than one million adults in print and over 400,000 monthly unique usersonline. 
 
The new business is now looking to build on this success in Bristol. Andy Marshall, ManagingDirector of Immediate Media Co Bristol, commented: "This is a hugely exciting development for us and the city. The deal brings together our highly successful media businesses in Bristol with internationally renowned BBC Magazines and digital publisher Magicalia. We are looking to build on our proven success as we become an important part of a bigger team focusing upon mediafrom magazines to websites, apps to video, live events to audio broadcasting. We have ambitious plans to grow faster still and build a world-class media powerhouse in our city."

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