Business Information Market UK - Facts

• Total size of the UK business information sector: £15.5bn (£2.1bn revenue from in-person events)
• 70.000 people employed
• +7% annual growth rate
• 6:1 approximate ratio of digital to print revenue in the information market
• Digital is the most massive, complex and fast-changing area covering devices, websites, digital magazines, magazine apps and social media
• Live events is still the single biggest priority area for business media organisations
• In Advertising, digital is driving bigger, multi-platform packages, but having the internal resources to execute everything is a real challenge
• The membership bundle, shaped by deep and real-time data, is a key focus of activity in subscriptions
• In terms of having the resources to drive change, finance is seen as the main requirement (61%), staff and IT (46%)
• 7.9 out of 10 B2B publishers show robust and growing confidence about the financial success of their company over the next two years

OPENING LUNCH

SPEAKER
Steve Newbold, Centaur Media

Steve is Divisional Managing Director of Centaur Media Plc overseeing the Home Interest, Legal, Engineering, Financial, Business Travel and Recruitment markets. Centaur specialise in market-facing multi-platform businesses primarily across paid-for-content subscription platforms, print, digital, exhibitions, conferences, and awards.

Prior to joining Centaur Media in 2015 Steve has held Managing Director roles at WGSN, i2i Events, Emap Communications (now Ascential) and Emap Consumer Media. He has experience of running multi-media businesses in key sectors including homes, legal, retail, and fashion. He has also led and supported key acquistions including WGSN, Stylesight, Futuros Events, Broadcast Video Expo and Pure London.

Steve Newbold talked at DIS 2016 about the digital technology journey of Centaur Media. Read more...

PROCUREMENT LEADERS
www.procurementleaders.com

Procurement Leaders was founded in 2004 and is a global membership-led community providing essential market intelligence and data (procurement intelligence), education (professional development) and networking services (peer-to-peer networking) to the world’s top procurement executives and their enterprises. The company is headquartered in London and works with over 600 companies and 23,000 executives in more than 50 countries, equipping them with expert practices and access to a unique global community aimed at uncovering innovations and driving value for organisations. Procurement Leader’s B2B portfolio, e.g. the events programme, has been recognised by industry associations such as the British Professional Publishers Assocation (PPA) who also named the company Business Media Brand of the Year.

SPEAKER
Alex Martinez, CEO & Co-Founder

RELEVANCY
Globally leading B2B membership platform that initially started out in events and has managed to build a brand that is now focused on paid-subscriptions. Crucial for this success are the efficient and effective management of events data. Today, half of the company’s revenues are generated from subscriptions to Procurement Leaders’ corporate membership, with the vast majority of the remaining revenues coming from events. As a B2B information provider delivering content in different shapes and forms, Procurement Leaders ascribes its success to the fact that the founders aren’t from a traditional publishing background, meaning conventional publishing industry assumptions are questioned, innovative approaches are a given and decisions are always driven by customer need.

HAYMARKET MEDIA
www.haymarket.com

Haymarket is an international, award-winning specialist media and information company with over 45 B2B brands connecting people and communities across print, digital, mobile and live media in the UK, US, Asia, India and Germany.

SPAEKER
Kevin Costello, CEO
Philip Swinden, Managing Director, Haymarket Business Media

RELEVANCY
Haymarket as an example of a traditional B2B publisher in a phase of repositioning and realigning its strategic focus: Under the ambitious headline “From UK print publisher to the best international specialist media and information company in the world” CEO Kevin Costello outlined a growth plan in early 2012 designed to deliver long-term growth, also especially in international markets. In recent months, the company announced the acquisition of the World Architecture News (WAN) and World Interiors News (WIN) websites and awards from Built Environment Media. In April 2016, Philip Swinden was appointed as Managing Director of the UK Business Media division (HBM) in order to lead the division’s model to one focused more on subscriptions, data, high value information and research, in line with the overall strategic objectives of the group’s growth plan

WILMINGTON PLC
www.wilmingtonplc.com

Wilmington plc is one of the UK’s leading information services and media companies. It turns “knowledge into advantage” by providing information and training to professional business markets within the Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal and Insight sectors. The information is delivered through conferences and events, professional training and online and print publishing. Wilmington, which operates as a collaborative group of companies, enables professionals and their organisations to enhance performance by providing high quality, relevant and reliable information, education and knowledge. High profile brands include International Compliance Training (ICT), Central Law Training (CLT), AMT Training, Mercia, Axco, Compliance Week and Solicitors Journal.

SPEAKER
Mike Fraser, Chief Technology Officer
Doug Marshall, Head of Marketing

RELEVANCY
Since the company floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1995, Wilmington has more than trebled in size and now operates in eight countries, with 23 offices and employing more than 1,000 managers and staff. The company’s success is based on a communities-first and client-centric approach and underpinned by a stringent acquisition strategy. Since 1999 the acquired the following businesses: Central Law Group (CLG), Binley’s, Wellards, SWAT UK & Health Service Journal (HSJ). HSJ is the UK’s pre-eminent health information, insight and networking business, boosting Wilmington’s healthcare businesses with the digital subscription product HSJ.co.uk, the fast growing digital information product HSJ Intelligence, 11 networking events and HSJ Marketing Services.

START-UP SESSION
We will attend a start-up pitch at the accelerator Emerge Education: 4 to 5 start-ups that are developing interesting services, digital products and ideas, among others, for the publishing industry will present their businesses.

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