History
Three of the company's most senior executives, Tim Weller, James Hanbury and Nick Rapley founded the company in 1994 with a staff of 13 and an initial investment of just £275,000. Today, the group employs over 2 000 people, operating out of 27 offices around the world. We publish over 100 print titles including some of the most recognised brands in the B2B arena such including Accountancy Age, The American Lawyer, Computing, Corporate Counsel, Investment Week, Legal Week, Post and Risk. Incisive Media produces close to 500 conferences, events and training products in over 20 countries, including Search Engine Strategies, Asian Private Equity and Venture Forum, LegalTech, the Structured Products regional series, the Fund Manger of the Year Awards and the British Insurance Awards. Incisive Media also operates over 100 online properties, including Clickz.com, Law.com, Legalweek.co.uk, Yourmortgage.co.uk, Vnu.net and IFAonline.co.uk, generating in excess of 35 million page impressions a month.
Incisive Media has an unmatched record of sustained organic and acquisitive growth, creating substantial opportunities for staff that have been able to develop their careers in an organisation where change is constant and every day is exciting.
The growth history of Incisive Media
The first five years. Founding the company and growing organically
The first five years of the business were a time of sustained organic growth with the launch of new titles and brand extensions including Investment Week, International Investment, Cover, Mortgage Solutions, Hedge Funds Review and IFAonline.
1994 Incisive Media founded
1995 Launch of Investment Week
2000 Acquired Timothy Benn Publishing, publishers of Post magazine
2000 Floated the company on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
Incisive Media valued at £75m.
The next five years. Rapid growth as a publicly quoted company
The next chapter of the company’s growth saw Incisive Media float on the London Stock Exchange where it used its own shares to acquire a number of businesses. In addition to spending close to £90m acquiring companies, Incisive Media continued to grow organically, launching market-leading brands such as Structured Products, Life and Pensions and The Journal of Operational Risk, all in addition to creating a vast number of events and online products.
2001 Acquired Matching Hat Limited
2003 Acquired Risk Waters Group
2004 Acquired Initiative Europe
2005 Acquired Search Engine Strategies
2006 Acquired CIFT (Centre for Interactive Financial Training)
2006 Acquired Pacific Prospect
2006 Acquired AVCJ (Asian Venture Capital Journal)
Incisive Media valued at £275m.
Today and the next five years. Apax buyout takes the company private again and growth accelerates
Apax backed the management team, led by Tim Weller, in a public-to-private management buyout to substantially accelerate the growth of the company. With the backing of Apax, one of the most active investors in media that has over £4bn of equity invested globally, this is the most exciting time in Incisive Media’s history. Within 6 months of the deal being completed, Incisive Media had grown to nearly three times the size it was in November 2006.
Our aim is to create a global information business worth in excess of £1bn, underpinned by excellence in content creation and our core values of integrity, trust and authority in everything that we do. While we have been successful in building the business through acquisition, the commitment and quality of our people has continued to deliver organic growth that sets us firmly apart from our peers. Incisive Media has delivered underlying compound annual revenue growth of 13% since 2000.
12/2006 Apax takes Incisive Media private in a £275 million buyout
12/2006 Acquired MSM International
01/2007 Acquired VNU Business Publications
06/2007 Acquired Central Banking Publications
08/2007 Acquired Global Technology Forum
08/2007 Acquired ALM Media from Wasserstein in a $630 million deal
