Seven Sisters (magazines)

The Seven Sisters are a group of magazines which have traditionally been aimed at married women who are homemakers with husbands and children, rather than single and working women. The name is derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades. Five of the magazines are still published:

The sixth sister, Ladies' Home Journal ceased monthly publication in April 2014 as Meredith stated they would be "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication".

The seventh sister, McCall's, ceased publication in 2002 after an ill-fated attempt to rebrand itself (under the name Rosie) by teaming up with talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell and the publisher were unable to agree upon editorial decisions, and both parties filed breach-of-contract lawsuits against the other.

After a wave of consolidation and mergers, two companies now own the six remaining sisters: Meredith Corporation publishes Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, and Ladies' Home Journal; and Hearst Corporation publishes Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Woman's Day. While their circulation has slipped from their figures in the 1960s and 1970s, they are among the highest circulation magazines in the United States.

Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters.

Seven Sisters may also refer to:

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Seven Sisters (oil companies)

"Seven Sisters" was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the "Consortium for Iran" cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), Texaco (later merged with Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso/Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) (trading as Mobil now part of ExxonMobil).

Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 percent of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies.

Composition and history

In 1951 Iran nationalized its oil industry, then controlled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP), and Iranian oil was subjected to an international embargo. In an effort to bring Iranian oil production back to international markets, the U.S. State Department suggested the creation of a "Consortium" of major oil companies. The "Consortium for Iran" was subsequently formed by the following companies:

Seven sisters (studios)

The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when The Walt Disney Studios emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium including Sony Pictures Entertainment. The seven sisters were:

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