The titles involved include:
• IPC Southbank: 25 Beautiful Homes, Beautiful Kitchens, Country Homes & Interiors, Hair, Homes & Gardens, Ideal Home, In Style, In Style compact edition, Livingetc, Marie Claire, Marie Claire compact edition, Wallpaper*, Wedding, Wedding Flowers, woman&home, woman&home compact edition
• IPC Inspire: Amateur Gardening, Amateur Photographer, Caravan Magazine, Classic Boat, Cycling Active, Cycling Weekly, Guitar & Bass, Hi-Fi News, Horse & Hound, Mini World, Model Collector, Motor Boats Monthly, Motor Boat & Yachting, Motor Caravan Magazine, NME, Park Home & Holiday Caravan, Prediction, Race Car Engineering, Rugby World, Ships Monthly, Shooting Gazette, Shooting Times, Stamp Magazine, Web User, What Digital Camera, Yachting World, Yachting Monthly
• IPC Connect: Look, TV & Satellite Week
The contract will run for three years and the business will transfer from 01 July.
Evelyn says: “This decision follows a rigorous tender process which considered a comprehensive range of options in great detail. We’re confident that the contracts awarded to Wyndeham today provide the best long term solutions for our magazines.”
Charlie Meredith, who took up the role of managing director of IPC Central Operations in January, adds: “I’m delighted at this early point in my new role that we have been able to complete this tender process – and award the business to Wyndeham, which offers a strong and thoroughly modern portfolio of print solutions that best suit our titles moving forward.”
IPC manufacturing director Jasper Scott (pictured) added: “It’s been a thorough and complex process to arrive at today’s decision. There was a range of key criteria, including resource, technology and investment proposals; business continuity plans; scheduling and account handling process; and of course, pricing and cost/resource efficiency proposals. All criteria have been geared towards achieving true partnership over the long term. And with the acquisition of Southernprint last year, Wyndeham Group became the deserved front runner to win this tender.”
About IPC Media
IPC Media says: “IPC Media is one of the leading consumer magazine publishers in the UK. Its three publishing divisions are: IPC Connect, IPC Southbank and IPC Inspire. IPC is wholly owned by Time Warner, one of the world's largest media groups.”
