History

With three editorial staff, one part-time circulation manager, and one part time publisher, we launched Preview, our first magazine in June 1995. We did look quite pathetic—we squatted in a vacant room of a newspaper office then and shared one Mac computer between us.

We only wanted to produce good magazines and did not care about our work environs and limited resources.

In May 1997, Hearst Magazines International chose us to be its local licensee to publish Cosmopolitan magazine. The efforts of the past started to pay off and Cosmopolitan paved the way for a rebirth of the Philippines’ moribund magazine industry.

Thus followed many more magazine launches with other foreign partners like Emap (now Bauer), Future Network, Disney, Rodale, Entrepreneur Media, Pacific Publications and Martha Stewart Omnimedia.

Of course, we also launched our own locally conceived titles and these were successes as well.

Today, we are the leading magazine publisher in the Philippines with over 20 titles in our portfolio. We also the leading player in online recruitment with Jobstreet.com.ph and are strong players in the following businesses—digital media, outside-of-home media, and consumer events.

We also moved into our new home—where almost 600 people occupy three floors of the Cybergate 3 building—in May 2008, 13 years later.

We are grateful to all our partners who have helped us achieve success—our news dealers, our advertisers, our printers, our editorial contributors, and most especially our readers.