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Hearst Magazines Division is a unit of The Hearst Corporation, one of the world s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with a total of 19 United States titles and 142 international editions. Hearst reaches more adults than any other publisher of monthly magazines (76.3 million according to MRI, spring 2005). The company also publishes 19 magazines in the United Kingdom through its wholly owned subsidiary, The National Magazine Company Limited. Hearst is recognized as one of the preeminent magazine distribution leaders in the world today. Comag Marketing Group, jointly owned by The Hearst Corporation and Cond Nast Publications, is a widely diversified international, sales and marketing organization for America s leading magazines, books and specialty products. Communications Data Services, including Tower, a subscription fulfillment company based in the United Kingdom, provides customized fulfillment services to publishers and direct marketers and manages in excess of 150 million customer names. Periodical Publishers Service Bureau provides such services as subscription sales, telemarketing, collections, reader inquiries, miscellaneous order processing, product fulfillment, demographic surveys, promotional mailings and cover counting.

Parade Magazine conducted the first United States interview with the late Pope John Paul II and Hillary Rodham Clinton and the first report on Nuclear Winter by the late Dr. Carl Sagan. Parade Magazine has a circulation of 36 million and is distributed to more than 340 Sunday newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald and Dallas Morning News. Some of its weekly features are the celebrity profile column In Step With... by James Brady, Guide to Better Fitness by Dr. Michael O Shea and Ask Marilyn by Marilyn vos Savant, who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records Hall of Fame as the person with the world s highest IQ. The first issue of Parade Magazine was published on May 31, 1941, with a print run of 125,000 copies.