Sylvia Auton to step down after 36 years with the company,
in a tenure that included £1.15bn acquisition by Time Warner
Sylvia Auton, the chair and chief executive
of Marie Claire publisher IPC Media, is to retire after
36 years with the company.
Auton, 63, has been chief executive of the
UK's largest magazine company – publisher of titles including Ideal Home,
Woman's Own, InStyle and Now – since 2003.She moved to the US to take the role of executive vice president at parent publishing company Time Inc in 2007, retaining the role of chair at IPC, but returned to the UK four years later to resume the chief executive role.
