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Glamour, pioneer of the handbag-sized format, is up 2.4% on the period to 620,391 copies, marking a year-on-year increase of 6.5%.

NatMags' flagship title, Cosmpolitan, which launched a handbag-sized format alongside its A4 edition last year, managed a sales increase of 4.8% on the period to 478,394 copies and was up 3.9% year on year.

Good Housekeeping narrowly lost its third place slot to Emap's title for the over-60s, Yours, which was 6% up on the period and 8.7% up on the year to 438,872 copies.

NatMags' Good Housekeeping gained a respectable 4.1% on the period and 4.7% on the year to reach 435,076 copies -- just 3,000 below Emap's Yours.

Emap's flagship New Woman did not fare so well. It was down 3.6% on the period and 3.5% on the year to 280,448 copies.

IPC's Woman & Home put in a good performance jumping 9.5% to 332,646 in the last six months and up 12.6% year-on-year giving it the biggest year-on-year increase in the sector.

Eve, which was recently bought from the BBC by Brand Republic-owner Haymarket Publishing, continued to do well. Eve was up 6.8% on the quarter to 160,210 copies and year-on-year it was up 12.5% just beaten by Woman & Home.

Hachette Filipacchi's youngest title, B, was the biggest winner of all the glossies in the period, up a whopping 29.6% to 166,145.

B received a considerable amount of investment over the period after losing almost a quarter of its readers in the last set of ABCs. The title's year-on-year result therefore looks less impressive -- up by 0.3%.

Hachette Filipacchi's Red continued to rise, up 6.5% on the period and 6.8% on the year. Stablemate Elle posted a slim gain, up 0.3% on the period to 202,074 copies and 0.4% year-on-year.

It was another disappointing result for H Bauer's Real, which fell 3.6% in the last six months to just below the 197,031-mark, losing 4.2% of its readers year on year.

It was not all good news for Conde Nast as Vanity Fair's circulation dropped 0.8% on the period to 92,387, although the year-on-year sales were up 2.4%.

NatMags' upmarket title Harpers & Queen fared better, up 0.4% on the period to 98,100, although growth has slowed considerably since the last period when it was up 8.3%. Total year-on-year growth was 8.7%.

Conde Nast rival Tatler had a better time of it, up 1.9% for the period to 86,051 and up 2% on the year.

Vogue was up 0.7% on the period to 206,834 copies -- marking a year-on-year increase of 0.8%.

IPC's Marie Claire posted 1% growth over the period and was 6.6% up over the year to 384,502 copies, underlining the success of last summer's editorial revamp.

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