Incisive Media
{{Short description|Business media company based in London, England}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Incisive Media
| logo = Incisive-media-logo-2017.jpg
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| image_caption = Incisive Media Logo
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| key_people = {{unbulleted list|Tim Weller (chairman)|Jamie Campbell-Harris (CFO)|Jonathon Whiteley (CEO)}}
| industry = Business Media
| parent = Arc Media
| foundation = {{sda|1994}}
| founder = Tim Weller
| location_city = London
| location_country = England
| homepage = {{url|http://www.incisivemedia.com/|incisivemedia.com}}
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Incisive Media is a Business-to-business financial company. It is based in London, England.
History
Incisive Media is a business-to-business (B2B) financial company founded by Tim Weller, in 1994 with the launch of Investment Week. It acquired Timothy Benn Publishing (owner of Post Magazine) in August 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.postonline.co.uk/post/news/1235549/timothy-benn-publishing-merge-city-financial-communications|title= Timothy Benn Publishing to merge with City Financial Communications.|date= 3 August 2000}} During the next six years the business completed a number of acquisitions including Matching Hat, Risk Waters, Initiative Europe (Unquote), Search Engine Strategies, Global Professional Media, Asian Venture Capital Journal and Pacific Prospect. However, as a public company it was difficult to take advantage of some of the larger consolidation opportunities that existed, so in December 2006 Tim Weller led a management buyout deal backed by Apax Partners{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/sep/22/citynews.business |title=Incisive Media investors hope Apax bid will trigger auction |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 22 September 2006}} that valued Incisive Media at £275 million.
Within a few months of going private, Incisive Media completed the acquisitions of MSM International and UK publishing business VNU Business Publications Ltd, formerly part of The Nielsen Company, from venture capital group 3i in 2007.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2803926/Incisive-to-buy-VNU-Business-Publications.html |title=Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date= February 6, 2007}} In August 2007 the company completed a deal to acquire ALM, an American magazine publisher that was backed by Bruce Wasserstein, which greatly increased Incisive Media's profits.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jul/05/pressandpublishing.citynews |title=Incisive Media purchases US publisher ALM |newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 July 2007}}
However, following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the 2008 financial crisis, Incisive Media's markets came under significant pressure. In October 2009 Incisive Media undertook a financial restructuring to cut the costs and stabilize.{{cite press release |url=http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/news/111 |title=Incisive Media reaches agreement on refinancing of the Group Incisive press release |date=8 September 2009 |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-date=10 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110071100/http://www.incisivemedia.com/corporate/news/111 |url-status=dead }}
In January 2016 Incisive sold the British magazine Legal Week to the US legal business publisher ALM.{{cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/us-publisher-alm-acquires-legal-week-incisive-media|title=US publisher ALM acquires Legal Week from Incisive Media – Press Gazette|website=www.pressgazette.co.uk}}
In April 2022, Arc and The Channel Company acquired Incisive Media.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-06 |title=EagleTree Backed Companies, Arc and The Channel Company, Acquire Incisive Media |url=https://www.incisivemedia.com/eagletree-backed-companies-arc-and-the-channel-company-acquire-incisive-media/ |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=Incisive Media |language=en-US |type=Press release}}
= 11 September 2001 attacks =
On 11 September 2001 Incisive Media―at the time known as Risk Waters―was hosting a conference at Windows on the World, a restaurant located on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The people who attended the meeting were killed during the attack on the towers.[http://travel.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11RISK.html Citizens of the World, on Time for a Meeting in Harm's Way] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520045648/http://travel.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11RISK.html?pagewanted=print&position=top |date=May 20, 2011 |access-dateJanuary 1, 2023}}, The New York Times, September 11, 2001Field, Peter, [http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=6661 Remembering September 11 The Day I'll Never Forget] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410065212/http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=6661 |date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=January 1, 2023}}
Awards
The group received five nominations for the June 2010 Association of Online Publishers awards,{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/23/digital-media-theguardian |title=Nominations for AOP awards |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 23 April 2010}} and was voted Digital Publisher of the Year. Also it received the same award in 2013, in 2016{{cite web|url=http://www.ukaop.org.uk/news/2010aopawardwinners2131.html |title=2010 AOP Award Winners |publisher=ukaop.org.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420050531/http://www.ukaop.org.uk/news/2010aopawardwinners2131.html |archive-date=2013-04-20 }} and in 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.incisivemedia.com/our-news/incisive-win-aop-b2b-silverware-second-consecutive-year/|title=Incisive win AOP B2B silverware for a second consecutive year - Incisive Media|date=29 June 2017}} Incisive followed this up with a win for Pensions and Benefits UK at the 2017 UK Conference awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.incisivemedia.com/our-news/pensions-benefit-uk-takes-centre-stage-2017-conference-awards/|title=Pensions and Benefits UK takes centre stage at the 2017 Conference Awards - Incisive Media|date=3 July 2017}}