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FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.

The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For Him Magazine continues to be printed on the spine of each issue. Founded by Chris Astridge, the magazine was a predominantly fashion-based publication distributed through high street men's fashion outlets.

Circulation expanded to newsagents as a quarterly by the spring of 1987. After the emergence of James Brown's Loaded magazine (regarded as the blueprint for the lad's mag genre), For Him Magazine firmed up its editorial approach to compete with the expanding market and introduced a sports supplement. It then went monthly and changed its name to FHM. It subsequently dominated the men's market and began to expand internationally.

The magazine is printed on high quality glossy paper and the photography is of high technical quality. FHM became one of the best-selling magazines in Britain during the mid to late 1990s, selling more than 700,000 copies per month by 1999.

FHM was sold as part of the publishing company sale, from EMAP to Bauer Publishing in February 2008.

Dates of magazine issues, winners, ages of winners at the time of selection, and pertinent comments are listed below.

As of November 2009, FHM International publishes 29 editions per month, including editions in Australia, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States^[1]:

There is currently no printed edition of FHM published in Americas. The magazine is only available online on the web and is published from USA.

The French edition of FHM is published since 1999 by Mondadori France in Paris. Its chief-editor is Lomig Guillo.

The German edition of FHM is published by Mitte Editionen GmbH in Berlin.

The Lithuanian edition of FHM is published by Leidykla Lilita.

The Norwegian edition of FHM is published by Bonnier Media AS in Oslo.

The Portuguese edition of FHM is published by Edimpresa, the publishing arm of the Impresa media group.

The Russian edition of FHM is published since 2001 in Moscow; since 2007 by Rodionov Publishing House. Its publisher was Evgeny Dodolev. He had showed that operating a periodical in Russia was much easier without the burden of Western libel laws.

In July 2008 issue Dodolev had published nude pictures of five FHM Russia's employees including his own secretary, Chief marketing officer, VP of Event Departament, Executive Culture Director and Head Editor of the magazine. This story referred to a new cost reduction and mocked some methods of budget cutting in Publishing company. FHM Russia employees were never paid for acting as nude models.

The issue had huge coverage in Russian media^[2][3]. The magazine's website was even briefly closed, but has since re-opened. Some of heroines had better job offers and left the organization. Former Head Editor Anna Perova had taken proposal and became Editor in Chief of one of the oldest Russian magazine Krestyanka. The other heroine has been Personal Assistant to Mikhail Leontyev since 2009.

The publication has record-breaking numbers of Editors in Chief: five during two years only (2007-2009).

The Serbian edition of FHM was published by Color Press Group. Started in 2007, instead of globally known celebrities, the magazine mostly relies on local personalities (actresses, TV presenters, singers, socialites, sportswomen etc.) for spreads and articles such as Aleksandra Jeftanovi膰, Ivana Stamenkovi膰 Sindi, Ena Popov, Sun膷ica Travica, Kalina Kova膷evi膰, Miranda Vi膽ak, Vojislava Luki膰, etc. It is no longer published there under licence by FHM International.

The Spanish edition of FHM is published by Focus Ediciones.

The South African edition of FHM is published by Uppercase Media. The Editor is Hagan Engler.

The Chinese edition of FHM is published since May 2004 by Trends Magazines in Beijing.

The Indian edition of FHM is published by Next Gen publishing Limited.

The Indonesian edition of FHM is published by MRA printed media.

The Philippine edition of FHM is printed by Summit Media. Its current editor-in-chief is Allan Madrilejos. It runs its own website and every year celebrates along with the world, the FHM's 100 Sexiest Women.

The Singaporean edition of FHM is published by MediaCorp Publishing Pte Ltd.

The Thai edition of FHM is published by Inspire Entertainment.

The Australian edition of FHM is published by ACP Magazines. It has an average circulation of 58,000, with a readership of 300,000. The editor is Guy Mosel.

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