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Industry | Mass media |
Founded | 1909 |
Founder | Condé Montrose Nast |
Headquarters | One World Trade Center, New York City, New York, United States |
Area served
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Worldwide |
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Products | Magazines |
Parent | Advance Publications |
Subsidiaries |
Condé Nast Entertainment Pitchfork |
Website | condenast |
Condé Nast (stylized as CONDÉ NAST) is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications. The company attracts more than 164 million consumers across its 20 brands and media: Allure, Architectural Digest, Ars Technica, Backchannel, Bon Appétit, Brides, Condé Nast Traveler, Epicurious, Glamour, Golf Digest, GQ, Pitchfork, Self, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, W and Wired.
Robert A. Sauerberg, Jr. is Condé Nast's chief executive officer and president, Charles H. Townsend is its chairman and Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. is its chairman emeritus. The company launched Condé Nast Entertainment in 2011 to develop film, television and digital video programming.
Condé Montrose Nast, a New York City-born publisher, launched his magazine empire in 1909 with the purchase of Vogue, which was first created in 1892 as a New York weekly journal of society and fashion news. At first, Nast published the magazine under Vogue Company and did not incorporate Condé Nast until 1923. He had a flair for nurturing elite readers as well as advertisers and upgraded Vogue, sending the magazine on its path of becoming a top fashion authority. Eventually, Nast's portfolio expanded to include House & Garden, Vanity Fair (briefly known as Dress and Vanity Fair), Glamour and American Golfer. The company also introduced British Vogue in 1916, and Condé Nast became the first publisher of an overseas edition of an existing magazine.