Time Inc.

Time Inc. is owned by Time Warner Inc..

Ann Moore is the CEO of Time Inc..

Time Inc., a division of Time Warner Inc., is a major magazine and book publishing company. Time Inc. publishes many large circulation consumer magazines including Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Entertainment Weekly. With a total of about 150 magazines, Time Inc. is the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. and in the United Kingdom (through its subsidiary IPC Group Limited).

On January 25, 2007, Time Inc. sold 18 magazines to the Bonnier Magazine Group, a Swedish publishing company with operations worldwide. The magazines will be operated by World Publications LLC, an American company which is partly owned by Bonnier Magazine Group. The magazines sold were from Time Inc.'s Parenting Group and Time4 Media, Inc. subsidiary. The Parenting Group publications include Parenting magazine, and Time4Media magazines include Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and Yachting magazine. The transaction was valued at over $200 million.

A major book publisher, Time Inc. controls Little Brown & Company, Time Warner Bookmark and Warner Books.

The company can be traced back to the founding of Time magazine in 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. The two men had worked together previously at Yale University, with Hadden and Luce serving as chairman and managing editor, respectively, of the Yale Daily News.

While Hadden died several years after the founding of Time, Luce went on to be a very influential and successful figure in 20th century American publishing. He served as editor-in-chief of Time magazine until 1964, and created Fortune and Life magazines among many others. Luce was an influential member of the Republican party and, having been born in China, had an intense interest in Chinese politics. He supported the Chinese nationalist Chiang Kai-shek in his losing struggle against the communist Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung).

Before the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Bros., Time Inc. developed the Home Box Office and Cinemax pay television networks in the 1970s and 80s.

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