Companies that create the magazines

Kerrang magazine and Mojo are currently owned by Bauer Media Group who are a large European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines.  It has a workforce of approximately 11,000 employees in 17 countries. Bauer Media Group bought Kerrang magazine in 2008.

Rolling Stones magazine is co-founded and published by Jann Simon Wenner. In 1967 Wenner and Gleason founded Rolling Stone in San Francisco. To get the magazine started Wenner borrowed $7,500 from family members. In 1977, Rolling Stone shifted its base of operations to New York. Wenner employed Will Dana to help improve the circulation of the magazine and by 2006 Rolling Stone's magazine circulation was at an all-time high of 1.5 million copies sold every fortnight.