Take a Break (magazine)
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Take a Break is a weekly magazine aimed at women, currently published in the United Kingdom
by H Bauer Publishing, the UK subsidiary of the German-owned family business, the Bauer Group
. It retails at 82 pence and a new issue is published every Thursday.
Take a Break is the most circulated women's magazine in the United Kingdom, and the 12th most circulated overall, with estimated circulation figures at 900,016 for the second half of 2009. The magazine sits within the true life sector of the women's weekly market and is read by women who prefer to read stories about everyday women and their lives rather than celebrities. A popular element of the magazine is its competitions, the magazine gives away over £32,000 worth of prizes in every issue and pictures of the winners are printed in the magazine.
Take a Break is currently edited by Rebecca Fleming, the magazine has been voted Best Women's Weekly by the British Society of Magazine Editors on nine occasions, including 2007 and 2009. Take a Break has a number of brand extensions, including Take a Break's Fiction Feast which runs an annual Young Fiction Writer of the Year competition and a number of puzzle magazines. The magazine also has a website so that readers can enter competitions, sign up for one of the magazine's campaigns or send in stories online. As well as features, the magazine may feature puzzles, such as crosswords, word search
, sudoku
or arroword.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
by H Bauer Publishing, the UK subsidiary of the German-owned family business, the Bauer Group
Bauer Group
Bauer AG, based in Schrobenhausen , is an international provider of services, machinery and ancillary products in the earth-working and groundwater fields...
. It retails at 82 pence and a new issue is published every Thursday.
Take a Break is the most circulated women's magazine in the United Kingdom, and the 12th most circulated overall, with estimated circulation figures at 900,016 for the second half of 2009. The magazine sits within the true life sector of the women's weekly market and is read by women who prefer to read stories about everyday women and their lives rather than celebrities. A popular element of the magazine is its competitions, the magazine gives away over £32,000 worth of prizes in every issue and pictures of the winners are printed in the magazine.
Take a Break is currently edited by Rebecca Fleming, the magazine has been voted Best Women's Weekly by the British Society of Magazine Editors on nine occasions, including 2007 and 2009. Take a Break has a number of brand extensions, including Take a Break's Fiction Feast which runs an annual Young Fiction Writer of the Year competition and a number of puzzle magazines. The magazine also has a website so that readers can enter competitions, sign up for one of the magazine's campaigns or send in stories online. As well as features, the magazine may feature puzzles, such as crosswords, word search
Word search
A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that is letters of a word in a grid, that usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be horizontally,...
, sudoku
Sudoku
is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...
or arroword.
Extension Titles
- Fate & Fortune
- Fiction Feast
- My Favourite Recipes
- Puzzle Magazines
- Arrowords
- Code Breakers/Code Breakers Collection
- Criss Cross
- Crosswords Collection
- Hide 'n' Seek Wordsearch
- Picture Arrowords
- Puzzle Selection
- Seasonal Puzzle Collection
- Su-doku
- Su-doku Killer
- Su-doku Selection
- Take A Crossword (Britain's best selling crossword magazine http://www.bauer.co.uk/take-a-crossword)
- Take A Puzzle
- Wordsearch/Wordsearch Collection