Immediate Media Co
Stephen Lavin is a seasoned finance professional with extensive experience in the media and publishing industry. Currently serving as the Group Finance Director at Immediate Media Co since November 2011, Stephen has held multiple finance-related roles within the organization, contributing to its emergence as a key player in consumer media. Prior to this, Stephen was Finance Director at Magicalia Ltd, overseeing all financial operations in a digitally led publishing firm. Other notable positions include Finance Director at Archant Specialist and Deputy Finance Director at Trinity Mirror Southern. Stephen began a career in finance as a Senior Group Management Accountant at Trinity Mirror PLC and started as an Auditor at UHY Hacker Young. Educational credentials include a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History and Politics from the University of Strathclyde.
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Immediate Media Co is the special interest content and platform company, home to over 1,000 people in London, Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. We own and operate some of the best-loved brands in the UK. And we only focus on special interest markets, engaging over 75 million people globally each month, with world-class content, innovative new products and services and live events. Immediate operates over 70 consumer brands and sells over 51 million magazines each year. With over 1.3 million active subscribers across print and digital, we are the UK’s leading publisher by subscribers. Immediate is the market leader in many of the sectors we operate in, including food, gardening and children’s publishing. Our brands include Radio Times, BBC Good Food, olive, BBC History magazine, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, Girl Talk, and MadeForMums. We publish BBC Top Gear on behalf of BBC Studios and children’s titles for LEGO and Disney. Immediate Live, our live events business, is the UK’s leading organiser of unmissable consumer events. We create premium events and experiences that connect and inspire our audiences, including BBC Gardeners’ World Live, the Good Food Show, London Art Fair, The Cycle Show, Move It, The Festival of Quilts and the Hampton Court Food Festival. In November 2022, Immediate acquired Nutracheck, the UK’s leading subscription-based weight management and dietary improvement platform and with 350,000 premium subscribers, one of the biggest digital subscription apps in the UK. In January 2022, Immediate was named the UK’s 4th best place to work in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards 2022 and was the highest ranked media company in the list confirming its position as the leading employer in the sector.