1995
Incisive Media is founded by Tim Weller and launches its first brand, Investment Week.

1997
Incisive Media launches International Investment for the global wealth management industry. Incisive Media signs landmark deal with Michael Bloomberg to launch Bloomberg Money

1998
Incisive Media - Incisive Media launches market leading healthcare and protection brand COVER. Investment Week voted PPA magazine of the year and Tim Weller voted PPA Publisher of the Year. Incisive Media launches market leading healthcare and protection brand COVER. Investment Week voted PPA magazine of the year and Tim Weller voted PPA Publisher of the Year.

2000
Incisive Media acquires Timothy Benn Publishing (owner of Post Magazine). Incisive Media IPOs with a listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange valuing the company at £75m.

2001
Incisive Media acquires Matching Hat, the UK’s premier mortgage publisher and Tim Weller voted E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year London.

2003
Incisive Media acquires Risk Waters Group, the publishers of the global leading business information for the financial risk, fintech and FX industries.

2004
Incisive Media acquires Initiative Europe, publishers of Europe’s premier private equity data and venture capital service, Unquote.

2005
Incisive Media acquires Legal Week and its extensive stable of private client global events. Incisive Media acquires ClickZ and Search Engine Strategies (SES) from Meckler Media and Tim Weller wins Marcus Morris Award.

2006
Incisive Media acquires the Asian Venture Capital Journal, Asia’s pre-eminent private equity news and data source with the world’s largest PE conference run annually in Hong Kong. Incisive Media also builds on its Asia Pacific operations with the acquisition of Pacific Prospect, a diversified Structured Products and Wealth Management event organiser. At the end of the year Tim Weller leads a management buyout deal backed by Apax Partners that values Incisive Media at £275 million.

2007
Incisive Media completes a trio of significant acquisitions, MSM International and UK publishing business VNU Business Publications Ltd, formerly part of The Nielsen Company along with American Lawyer Media (ALM), an American publisher with the world’s largest portfolio of legal publications including Law.com creating a business with 2500 employees and an enterprise value in excess of £1bn.

2008
Legal Week voted PPA magazine of the year.

2009
Following the financial crisis Incisive Media announced a consensual restructure of the group. ALM was separated from the Group and was Acquired by RBS and Apax Partners. In the same month Incisive Media agreed a debt-for-equity swap with its lenders.

2010
Incisive Media receive five nominations for the June 2010 Association of Online Publishers awards and was voted Digital Publisher of the Year.

2012
Incisive Media creates the Incisive Media foundation to partner with national charities to help improve the education and career opportunities among disadvantaged communities.

2013
Incisive Media sells Computeractive to Dennis Publishing and BusinessGreen launches as a the UK’s first and foremost sustainability news and analysis site for professionals in the burgeoning green economy.

2014
Incisive Media embraces flexible working and wins five more accolades at the Headlinemoney Financial Journalism awards. Incisive Media Acquires the licence to Channelnomics for expansion into US and European IT channel media markets, now known as Channel Partner Insight (CPI).

2015
Investment Week and Professional Pensions celebrate 20 years with a major redesign and improved user experience. Blenheim Chalcot and portfolio company Contentive acquire Interactive Marketing Division ClickZ, SES and SEW from Incisive Media along with Accountancy Age and Financial Director. Incisive Media wins Best Awards Team at the sixth annual Conference Awards.

2016
Incisive Media sells Legal Week to the US legal business publisher ALM. Investment Week trailblazes B2B wearable tech with an Apple Watch app. Incisive voted best digital publisher in UK by its peers for a record third time at the AOP Awards. Incisive Media events teams win four PPA Connect awards.

2017
Incisive Media sells its Incisive Insight division to Infopro Digital. Tim Weller, Jamie Campbell-Harris and Jonathon Whiteley lead an MBO of Incisive Media and the business enters a period of accelerated growth. Incisive Media scoops two gongs at the inaugural Awards Awards, winning Best Managed Event and the Best Awards Team category. Incisive win AOP B2B silverware for a second consecutive year in the prestigious B2B publisher of the year category. PP Live takes centre stage at the 2017 Conference Awards. Incisive Media moves to a new HQ and creates a new, fresh and contemporary corporate identity.

2018
Incisive Media launch content and performance marketing agency, Incisive Works. Incisive Media proud to support the Pride in London Festival which later becomes an annual company tradition. Incisive Media completes the double at the 2018 PPA Digital Awards, bagging both the digital commercial team of the year and the blue riband B2B digital publisher of the year trophies.

2019
Incisive Media launches boutique events agency Incisive Works. Incisive Media acquires The Financial Services Forum, the pre-eminent members organisation for marketers across the financial services sector. Incisive Media unveils mission to create a sustainable event business, striving for the ISO 2021 standard.

2020
Incisive Media – business as usual as the world responds to the Global C19 pandemic. Business Green launches Net Zero Festival with a wave of high-profile sustainability partners Incisive Media wins blue riband AOP digital publisher of the year accolade for a record fifth time Incisive Media CEO Jonathon Whiteley named among UK’s top 50 Most Innovative CEOs. CRN fends off the FT to score a double win at the 2020 Campaign Publishing Awards. Incisive Media joins the #lightitblue campaign to support the heroes of the NHS.

2022
EagleTree Backed Companies, Arc and The Channel Company, Acquire Incisive Media Arc acquires Incisive’s financial services and business sustainability portfolios; The Channel Company acquires Incisive’s technology portfolio.