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1985 – 1989

1985-1989

  • From an idea for one computer magazine to an international special-interest magazine publisher with over 100 titles in the UK and US.
  • 1985 Former editor, Chris Anderson, founds Future Publishing with a £10k bank loan. The company’s first magazine, Amstrad Action is launched with 100 pages and a print run of 40,000 copies.
  • 1987 PC Plus becomes the first British magazine to covermount a computer diskette every month, a move which helps accelerate its seemingly inexorable growth in circulation and advertising.
  • By 1989 Future becomes Britain’s leading publisher of newsstand computer magazines.

  • 90 magazines exported or licensed to 90 countries
  • 23m unique monthly visitors to our websites
  • No. 1 for games magazines worldwide
  • No. 1 cycling publisher worldwide
  • No. 1 UK magazine licensor
  • No. 1 largest producer of film magazines in the UK
  • No. 1 for guitar magazines worldwide
  • No. 1 for guitar magazines worldwide
  • 100% of our paper is sourced from recycled fibre or sustainable forests
  • 3.4m magazines sold every month
  • No. 3 special-interest publisher on UK news stand
  • 21 International editions of T3
  • 27 annual events attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors
  • 6m customer magazines produced every month
  • No. 3 global games information website: GamesRadar
  • No. 1 for consumer electronics in the UK