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.
