Part 1
What the company does for you, and what it does not
The Ltd is the publisher of your magazine. It is the name in the imprint, the owner of the domain's legal pages, and the entity a reader or a platform...
The company behind your magazine, set up in one evening: The Publisher Company Setup
You have seen the third-party magazines in front of the advertorials, each with a company in London, New Mexico or Hong Kong in the footer. This is how operators set that company up, what it costs, and the imprint to paste. Delivered to your inbox in seconds.
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After this setup guide...
...you build your next cold-traffic page from what already sells.
Without a blank page. Without guessing. Without testing what other brands already tested.
7 steps: director, name, UK address, identity check, incorporation, imprint and the yearly filings, in the order you do them.
What it costs: every Companies House fee as of February 2026, once and per year.
Paste-ready imprint: the template with every field a European reader and a platform reviewer look for, plus the FAQ your clients will ask.
Everything inside this setup guide
Part 2
Decide who is director and who owns it
A Ltd needs at least one real person as director and an owner, which Companies House calls a person with significant control. Neither has to live in...
Part 3
Pick and check the name
Search the Companies House register (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk) to see whether the name is free. It has to end in Ltd or...
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How operators set up the UK company behind a third-party magazine, with costs, an imprint template and the questions everyone asks.
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