Indie fashion title Frankie has sold as part of a $10.8 million acquisition of parent company Morrison Media.
The acquisition by Pacific Star Network Limited includes Frankie, Smith Journal, Surfing Life, Slow Living and White Horses publications.
Frankie, which is a bi-monthly women's magazine, has scooped winner of the Australian Magazine Awards two years running, in 2012 and 2013.
The magazine, which is available in the UK via limited outlets and is in the midst of an international expansion push, has nearly 300,00 Facebook likes and more than 73,000 Twitter followers.
It also launched an app for the magazine in 2013.
Its Australia circulation has grown to 67,782 (ABC ANPPS January to June 2014), and to 8,133 in New Zealand, for the same period.
This story first appeared on sister title adnews.com.au.