Femme Actuelle

Femme Actuelle
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation421,494 (2022)
Founded1984
First issue1 October 1984; 40 years ago (1984-10-01)
CompanyPrisma Press
(Louis Hachette Group)
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
WebsiteFemme Actuelle
ISSN0764-0021
OCLC421638622

Femme Actuelle (French: lit. Current Woman) is a weekly women's magazine published in Paris, France. It has also British and Spanish editions.

History and profile

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Femme Actuelle was first published in October 1984.[1][2][3] The magazine is part of Prisma Press, formerly a subsidiary of the German media company Gruner + Jahr.[4][5] It is published by Prisma Press on a weekly basis[6] on Mondays.[7] Prisma Press also owns other magazines, including Prima, Voici and VSD.[1][6][8]

Femme Actuelle is headquartered in Paris and covers articles on fashion, cosmetics, literature, and entertainment.[9]

The magazine has editions in the United Kingdom and in Spain.[10] Its British edition is called Best and its Spanish edition Mia.[10] Both magazines were also owned by Gruner + Jahr company.[11] Best was later sold to Nat Mags in 2000 and it is still published by Hearst Magazines UK.[12][13]

On 26 July 2010 Femme Actuelle introduced a separate pocket-sized edition.[14]

Vivendi acquired Prisma Media from Bertelsmann in 2020 and later the company spun-out its publishing operation (including Prisma Media and Femme Actuelle) into Louis Hachette Group in 2024.[15][16]

Circulation

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In 1988 Femme Actuelle sold nearly two million copies.[17] The circulation of the magazine was 1,837,000 copies in 1991.[1] It was the fifth best-selling magazine in France in 1999 with a circulation of 1,634,000 copies.[18] The magazine had a circulation of 1,538,000 copies in 2001, making it the twelfth best-selling women's magazine worldwide.[19]

Femme Actuelle had a circulation of 1,346,850 copies during the period of 2003-2004.[20] The magazine sold 1,292,000 copies in 2005.[21] In 2006 its circulation rose to 1,710,000 copies.[22]

In 2009 Femme Actuelle was the best-selling French women's magazine with a circulation of 927,420.[23][24] The same year it was also the fourth best-selling weekly women magazine in Europe.[24] In 2014 its circulation was 687,100 copies.[25] In the period of 2017-2018 the paid circulation of the magazine was 580,249 copies.[26]

Femme Actuelle sold 421,494 copies in 2022.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Helena Hafstrand (1995). "Consumer Magazines in Transition". Journal of Media Economics. 8 (1). doi:10.1207/s15327736me0801_1.
  2. ^ "Femme Actuelle". Prisma Media. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. ^ Europa World Year. London; New York: Taylor & Francis Group. 2004. p. 1699. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
  4. ^ Lawrence D. Kritzman; Brian J. Reilly; M. B. DeBevoise, eds. (2007). The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 723. ISBN 978-0-231-10790-7.
  5. ^ Denis McQuail; Karen Siune, eds. (1998). Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration & Commerce. London: SAGE Publications. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7619-5939-7.
  6. ^ a b "Magazines". Prisma Media. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Rate card 2015" (PDF). Huson Media. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  8. ^ Raymond Kuhn (2011). The Media In Contemporary France. Berkshire: McGraw-Hill Education. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-335-23622-0.
  9. ^ "Femme Actuelle. Factsheet". Publicitas. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  10. ^ a b Janice Winship (2004). "The Impossibility of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980s". In Dominic Strinati; Stephen Wagg (eds.). Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain. London: Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-92368-7.
  11. ^ Anthony Weymouth; Bernard Lamizet (2014). Markets and Myths: Forces For Change In the European Media. London; New York: Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-317-88970-0.
  12. ^ Quinn, Anthony. "Gruner & Jahr UK (part of Hearst/National Magazines)". Magforum. Retrieved 17 December 2024. German publisher burst on to the UK scene with Best to upset the weekly women's market dominated by IPC. It was bought up by National Magazines, which won takeover battle with IPC in July 2000 – a move seen as taking NatMags downmarket into weeklies. Gruner and Jahr is sometimes branded as either G&J or G+J.
  13. ^ "BEST | Hearst". Hearst UK. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Femme Actuelle is also available in pocket size". Adnative. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  15. ^ "Vivendi annonce avoir signé " une promesse d'achat " pour acquérir 100 % de Prisma Media". Le Monde.fr. 23 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  16. ^ Nostro, Gianluca Lo; Marchandon, Leo; Loève, Florence (16 December 2024). Nissi, Milla (ed.). "Canal+ falls, Havas and Louis Hachette up on market debut post Vivendi split". Reuters. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  17. ^ Robert Gildea (2002). France Since 1945. Oxford: OUP. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-157749-9.
  18. ^ Nicholas Hewitt, ed. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-107-49447-3.
  19. ^ "Top 50 Women's magazines worldwide (by circulation)" (PDF). Magazines. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  20. ^ E. Martin (2005). Marketing Identities Through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-230-51190-3.
  21. ^ "European Publishing Monitor. France" (PDF). Media Group Turku School of Economics. March 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  22. ^ Helmut K Anheier; Yudhishthir Raj Isar, eds. (2008). "Print Media". Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy. London: SAGE Publishing. p. 460. ISBN 978-1-4462-0261-6.
  23. ^ "Magazine Facts 2011" (PDF). Aikakaus Media. 4 April 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  24. ^ a b "World Magazine Trends 2010/2011" (PDF). FIPP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  25. ^ "Classement Presse Magazine 2014". OJD. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  26. ^ "Femme actuelle (Print)". International Media Sales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  27. ^ "Femme Actuelle − History". Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médias (in French). n.d. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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