Wilmington plc

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Wilmington plc is a publishing firm and provider of information and training, specialising in compliance, legal and healthcare publications. The company was established in 1995 and has its headquarters Whitechapel High Street, London.{{cite web|title=Wilmington History|url=https://www.wilmingtonplc.com/about-us/history|website=Wlimington plc|accessdate=21 April 2017}}

It publishes:

• Compliance Week, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts{{Cite web|title=About Compliance Week|url=https://www.complianceweek.com/about-compliance-week|website=Compliance Week|language=en|access-date=2020-05-12}}
• Health Service Journal
• Pension Funds Online{{Cite web|title=A short history of Pension Funds Online|url=https://www.pensionfundsonline.co.uk/directory/about-pension-funds-online/805|last=|first=|date=|website=Pension Funds Online|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-12}}

In 2000, Wilmington acquired Binley's, a provider of NHS healthcare intelligence and tools for (amongst others) pharmaceutical supplier sales organisations.{{Cite web|title=About Binley's|url=http://www.binleys.com/About/|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025222614/http://www.binleys.com/About/|archive-date=25 October 2019|access-date=}} Binley's was later merged into the Health Service Journal, but retained its OnMedica website, a reference and news source for UK-based GPs and speciality doctors.{{fact|date=May 2022}}

It sold What Wine? to William Reed Publishing in December 2005.{{Cite web|last= Robinson |first= Jancis, jancisrobinson.com | url= http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/directorypubs |title= publications and websites}}

Mercia Group, a provider of accountancy training, was acquired in 2006.{{Cite web|title=About us|url=https://www.mercia-group.co.uk/about|last=|first=|date=|website=Mercia Group|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-12}}

It bought Press Gazette in 2006 and sold it in 2009.[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=36406 "Wilmington buys Press Gazette"]. Press Gazette. 8 December 2006

Wilmington bought NHiS ("NHS Insights") in 2013.{{Cite web|title=Pharma Insight Co NHiS Sold to Wilmington Group|url=http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news16794.htm|last=|first=|date=8 February 2013|website=MrWeb|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-12}}

Wellards, an e-learning provider for salespeople in pharmaceuticals and medical technology, was acquired in 2016 and rebranded as the Digital Learning Academy.

It bought the Health Service Journal from Ascential in January 2017.{{cite news|title=New owner for HSJ announced|url=https://www.hsj.co.uk/home/news/new-owner-for-hsj-announced/7014963.article|accessdate=21 April 2017|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=19 January 2017}}

Wilmington published the long-established Solicitors Journal from the 1990s until closing it in 2017.{{Cite web|title=Wilmington to shut down Solicitors Journal after 160 years in print|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wilmington-to-shut-down-solicitors-journal-after-160-years-in-print/|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=2017-09-15|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-12}}