Candy (magazine)
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Candy is a magazine which is dedicated to the Filipino
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 youth. It is published by Summit Media
Summit Media
Summit Media is the leading consumer magazine publisher in the Philippines. The first issue was on June 1995, for the magazine Preview. It was a successful publication launch which brought about the rise of other magazines titles for the different Filipino lifestyles...

, publisher of Yes! Magazine
YES! Magazine
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, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

, Seventeen
Seventeen (magazine)
Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...

, Total Girl, and others. The magazine is manned by editor-in-chief Mia Fausto.

Candy Magazine's first issue was published on February, 1999, with its first celebrity cover, Anne Curtis
Anne Curtis
Anne Ojales Curtis-Smith, also known as Anne Curtis is a Filipino-Australian actress, model, television host, singer and VJ currently active in the Philippines....

. The magazine is edited in English
English language
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 because it is easy to read by the readers, the topics inside the magazine really suit the taste of Filipina teenagers, especially high school and college students. Not only girls are having fun when reading this magazine but also teenage boys who made this as a reference about on how to communicate and catch up with girls.

Candy Magazine is the most read teen magazine. It was ranked first in the Philippines in the category of Teen Magazines, according to the survey conducted by Synovate
Synovate
Synovate was a market research firm owned by the Aegis Group. It was formed from the acquisition of a number of smaller market research firms. It has a number of different divisions, such as Synovate Healthcare, Synovate Customer Experience, Synovate Censydiam and Motoresearch. They claimed...

. It is also the number one magazine based on the top 5 magazines of Summit Media after FHM, Yes!, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping.

Candy Magazine's resident columnists

  • Mia Custodio- Editor-in-chief
  • Marla Miniano- Assistant Lifestyle Editor
  • Mimi Tiu- Managing Editor
  • Macy Alcaraz- Web and Mobile Producer I
  • Roch Vergara- Web and Mobile Producer I
  • Jennie Llamas - Garcia- Beauty Editor
  • Angel Constantino- Assistant Features Editor
  • Margaux Romero- Associate Fashion Editor
  • Steph Yapnayon- Art Director
  • Lia Cruz
    Lia Cruz
    Lia Cruz is a television host, magazine columnist and sportscaster in the Philippines, now with The Kapatid Network TV5 as a host of travel and tech show Tech Trip and daily morning show Sapul sa Singko.-PBA Career:She is noted for being one of the youngest and most popular female sportscasters in...

  • Gypsy Girl
    Gypsy Girl
    Gypsy Girl was a TV series that ran on CITV in early 2001, based on the books The Parsley Parcel and Gold and Silver Water by Elizabeth Arnold. It centred around a gypsy girl and her family, who lived in a typical gypsy caravan on the corner of a typical suburban street. Her great-grandmother was...

  • Katie
    Katie
    Katie is an English feminine name. It is a pet form of Katherine, Kate, Kaitlynn and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. It may refer to:In sports:* Katie, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Rally Monkey...

  • Chinggay Labrador
  • Stella de Dios, MD
  • Malyn Cristobal
  • Sophie Lim-Bate
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