Femmes d’Aujourd’hui
Femmes d’Aujourd’hui (meaning Women of Today in English) is a French language weekly women's magazine published in Mechelen, Belgium. Founded in 1933, it is one of the oldest magazines in the country and the first Belgian women's magazine.
Editor-in-chief | Anne Daix |
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Categories | Women's magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Circulation | 84,596 (2014) |
Publisher | Sanoma Magazines Belgium |
Year founded | 1933 |
First issue | 1 April 1933 |
Company | Sanoma |
Country | Belgium |
Based in | Mechelen |
Language | French |
Website | Femmes d’Aujourd’hui |
History and profile
Femmes d’Aujourd’hui was first published on 1 April 1933, being the first Belgian women's magazine.[1][2][3] Sanoma is the owner of the magazine.[1] The magazine is published by Sanoma Magazines Belgium on a weekly basis[1][4] and has its headquarters in Mechelen.[5] The weekly was formerly based in Brussels.[6] The magazine is also distributed in France[7] which was started in the 1950s.[8][9]
Femmes d’Aujourd’hui covers various sections for fashion, beauty, health, decoration, tourism, gardening and psycho.[1] After 1960 the weekly began to include roman photos and graphic fictions.[10] At the beginning of the 1970s it featured graphic editions of classical novels such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.[10] Between 1952 and 1991 the magazine also published the comics by several caricaturists three pages per week, including Edmond Calvo, Henri Vernes and William Vance.[7]
Annick Poncelet was the editor-in-chief of the magazine whose tenure ended in January 2003 when she resigned from the post.[4] Anouk Van Gestel also served as the editor-in-chief of the weekly[5] of which the current editor-in-chief is Anne Daix.[1]
The magazine celebrated its 80th anniversary with a special edition published on 28 March 2013.[2][11][12]
Circulation
In 1961 Femmes d’Aujourd’hui had a circulation of 1,122,000 copies in France, and nearly 200,000 copies in Belgium.[7] During the period of 2006-2007 it was the third best-selling women's magazine in Belgium with a circulation of 130,000 copies.[13] The circulation of the magazine was 100,038 copies in 2010 and 95,621 copies in 2011.[14] It fell to 93,516 copies in 2012[14] and to 92,873 copies in 2013.[15] Between July 2013 and June 2014 the circulation of the magazine was 86,434 copies.[1] Its circulation was 84,596 copies in 2014.[16]
See also
References
- "Femmes d'Aujourd'hui". Sanoma. 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- Vanessa Matagne (27 March 2013). "Femmes d'Aujourd'hui. 80 ans et pas une ride !". Tuner (in French). Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "Avec 517.000 lecteurs hebdomadaires, "Femmes d'aujourd'hui" reste un énorme succès". RTL. 27 March 2013. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "A new Editor in Chief for Femmes d' Aujourd'hui". Sanoma. 6 November 2002. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "Magazines membres. Femmes d'Aujourd'hui". The Ppress (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- Patrick Hermie; Trui Lanckriet; Koen Lansloot; Stef Peeters (2005). "Stop/watch" (PDF). Medialogue. Diegem. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- "Femmes d'Aujourd'hui". Pressibus. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- Sandra Reineke (2011). Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of Women's Bodies in France. University of Illinois Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-252-09322-7.
- Kristin Ross (January 1996). Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-262-68091-2.
- David Coward (2008). A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema. John Wiley & Sons. p. 521. ISBN 978-0-470-75195-4.
- "80 ans: Bon anniversaire Femmes d'Aujourd'hui". Nostalgie (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "Fetez les 80 ans de Femmes d'Aujourd'hui a Disneyland Paris". Moustique (in French). 27 March 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market and Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "Top 50 Magazines". IFABC. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- "Belgium: Magazine market" (PDF). Il Sole 24 Ore. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- "Femmes d'Aujourd'hui" (PDF). Sanoma. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.