Condé Nast Publications

Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company, credited with creating the marketing strategy which emphasized magazines focused on a particular class or interest. Condé Nast magazines have their principal focus in the area of fashion, but they have branched out to a number of other areas of interest.

Related Topics:
Magazine - Publishing - Marketing - Fashion

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It was founded by Condé Montrose Nast, who took over the flagship magazine, Vogue, in 1915. In 1959, S.I. Newhouse purchased a controlling interest. It is now part of the holding company Advance Publications.

Related Topics:
Condé Montrose Nast - Vogue - 1915 - 1959 - S.I. Newhouse - Advance Publications

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By 1998 the group included 17 such publications, many of them the largest in their markets. It had an average total circulation of over 13 million issues a month, and an estimated actual readership five times larger than that.

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