Time Inc.

Time Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: TIME
Industry
FoundedNovember 28, 1922 (1922-11-28)
June 6, 2014 (2014-06-06) (Spin-off)
FoundersHenry Luce
Briton Hadden
DefunctJanuary 10, 1990 (1990-01-10)
January 31, 2018 (2018-01-31) (Spin-off)
FateMerged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner; later spun-off and acquired by Meredith Corporation which eventually merged with Dotdash to form Dotdash Meredith in 2021
SuccessorsDotdash Meredith
Warner Bros. Discovery
Headquarters225 Liberty Street, ,
U.S.
Key people
Joseph A. Ripp
(executive chairman)
Rich Battista
(president and CEO)
Revenue US$3.1 billion (2015)
−US$823 million (2015)
−US$881 million (2015)
Total assets US$4.8 billion (2015)
Total equity US$1.8 billion (2015)
Number of employees
7,200 (2016)
Divisions
  • Time Inc. International
  • Time Inc. India
Subsidiaries
  • HelloGiggles
  • Viant Technologies
  • Xumo (50%)
  • Foundry
  • Fansided Network
  • Sports Illustrated Play
Footnotes / references

Time Inc. (also referred to as Time & Life, Inc. later on, after their two onetime flagship magazine publications) was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Fortune, People, InStyle, Life, Golf Magazine, Southern Living, Essence, Real Simple, and Entertainment Weekly. It also had subsidiaries which it co-operated with the UK magazine house Time Inc. UK (which was later sold and since has been rebranded to TI Media), whose major titles include What's on TV, NME, Country Life, and Wallpaper. Time Inc. also co-operated over 60 websites and digital-only titles including MyRecipes, Extra Crispy, TheSnug, HelloGiggles, and MIMI.

In 1990, Time Inc. merged with Warner Communications to form the media conglomerate Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery). In 2018, media company Meredith Corporation acquired Time Inc. for $2.8 billion. Meredith was then acquired by IAC and merged with Dotdash to form Dotdash Meredith three years later, thus resulting in IAC gaining most of the former Time Inc. assets.