BBC Worldwide Collection International to form 2 Entertain, which was part owned by BBC Worldwide; the following year the company sold "Eve" magazine to Haymarket Group and in 2006 the company sold a majority stake in BBC Books to publisher Random House. In 2007 BBC Worldwide purchased a 75% stake in the travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, acquiring the final 25% of the company in 2011. The acquisition was part of the BBC's strategy to grow its online portfolio and to increase its operations in Australia and the USA. In January 2009 it was announced that Ofcom had put forward the recommendation
BBC programmes. The company maintained the publishing arm of the BBC, BBC Magazines, which published the "Radio Times" as well as a number of magazines that support BBC programming such as "BBC Top Gear", "BBC Good Food", "BBC Sky at Night", "BBC History", "BBC Wildlife" and "BBC Music". BBC Magazines was sold to Exponent Private Equity in 2011, which merged it with Origin Publishing (previously owned by BBC Worldwide between 2004 and 2006) to form Immediate Media Company. BBC Worldwide also publishes books, to accompany programmes such as "Doctor Who" under the BBC Books brand, a publishing imprint majority owned by