Our Businesses
UBM is a global live media and B2B communications, marketing service and data provider.
We seek to help companies make connections, communicate their proposition and do business effectively. We enable professional people in more than 40 countries around the world to connect and engage with each other, with the markets they serve and with the information they need to succeed. And we do this by whatever means works best – at live events, through digital media or in publications.
Our 6,000 expert staff are deeply embedded in the 70 specialist communities we serve, bringing both an unusual depth of understanding and real know-how. We organise hundreds of live events each year; we provide data, marketing and information products; we offer a portfolio of market-leading print and online titles; and we support professional communicators through our targeting, distribution and monitoring services.
Our culture of innovation and collaboration brings our people together around common interests to create value, enhancing our ability to do exactly the same for UBM customers. So, whatever their business and wherever they operate, our customers do better business through us.
UBM operates more than a dozen businesses in four main business segments: Events; Targeting, Distribution and Monitoring; Data Services; Online – Marketing Services; and, Print – Magazines.
Each of UBM’s businesses is profiled below:
Everything Channel
- Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.
PR Newswire
- PR Newswire is the world’s leading commercial news and information distribution service. Headquartered in New York, PR Newswire provides news distribution, targeting, measurement and broadcast services on behalf of many of the world’s top companies, organisations and agencies. PR Newswire routinely sends its customers’ news to outlets in 170 countries and in more than 40 languages.
RISI
- RISI is a leader in the provision of information to, and promotional opportunities for, the global forest products industry. RISI’s services include industry news and market reporting services (including global pricing information), market analysis and forecasting, as well as pulp and paper mill benchmarking services.
UBM Asia
- UBM Asia is the leading private organiser of exhibitions, with associated print and online media, in Asia. UBM Asia holds the leading events of their kind in Asia for the jewellery, leather, fashion, beauty, maritime, pharmaceutical ingredients and furniture industries.
UBM Aviation
- UBM Aviation specialises in the supply of data and information products, market intelligence, news and events related to the global aviation industry. Our assets include the pre-eminent aviation data and analytics provider, OAG, an international program of aviation exhibitions and conferences as well as market-leading print publications.
UBM Built Environment
- UBM Built Environment is recognised as the leading provider of targeted information across the UK construction & architecture and commercial property industry with magazines, events, awards and online information services. UBM Built Environment is widely acknowledged as having some of the most iconic brands in the market including Building, Property Week, BD, Barbour, ABI and the Thames Gateway Forum.
UBM Canon
- UBM Canon, the leading B-to-B media company dedicated exclusively to the global $3.0 trillion advanced manufacturing sector, helps support the flow of information, commerce and innovation in such sophisticated segments as medical devices and pharmaceutical development. UBM Canon also addresses cutting-edge developments in broader areas of advanced engineering design and manufacturing, and manufacturing processes and packaging.
UBM Conferences
- UBM Conferences operates internationally across all UBM’s divisions to bring its unrivalled content and thought leadership to marketers and business professionals across a wide range of markets. Although only recently launched, UBM Conferences already has an impressive programme of over 80 events covering the Construction and Architecture, Licensed Trade, Ingredients, Security, Health & Safety, Travel and Call Centre/CRM markets.
UBM Connect
- UBM Connect specialises mainly in print and online products for the UK Agriculture, Entertainment Technology and Music communities.
UBM Electronics
- UBM Electronics is the global leader in media and marketing solutions for the electronics industry, delivering results for the key influencers and decision-makers involved in the design, development and commercialization of technology. More than 2.2 million engineering professionals engage with UBM Electronics brands which include EE Times, EDN, EDN China, EDN Asia, EDN Japan, Design News and Test & Measurement World, TechOnline, Designlines and Embedded.com. UBM Electronics’ market-leading events include Embedded Systems Conferences, DesignCon and ARM Technology. UBM Electronics also provides end-to-end services which range from next-generation marketing and integrated media to custom solutions and research.
UBM Global Trade
- UBM Global Trade is the leading information provider to the global trade, transportation and travel market with comprehensive proprietary data, news and analytical content. Its vanguard brands include The Journal of Commerce, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions and a number of directory databases covering the international trade, railroad and trucking markets. The company also produces more than 12 conferences serving international trade and maritime markets.
UBM Live
- Operating internationally, UBM Live operates a number of market-leading exhibitions, awards, websites and online products and publications in more than twenty different business sectors. Our leading brands include CPhI, IFSEC, Food Ingredients. Cruise Shipping Miami, Technology for Marketing and Advertising, International Confex, Informex and many more. With offices in the UK, Netherlands, USA, UAE and Brazil, UBM Live has successfully geo-cloned its leading CPhI, Food Ingredients, TFM&A and IFSEC brands into territories such as China, Japan, Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and Africa. As well as building relationships with our customers, we help wider communities through our corporate responsibility programme.
UBM Medica
- UBM Medica provides information and education to healthcare professionals and patients around the world. Its unique portfolio of professional media products includes journals, drug directories, electronic databases, websites and events.
UBM TechInsights
- UBM TechInsights is the pre-eminent firm for the provision of sophisticated information and advice to technology companies. We assist in the management of their technology and intellectual property portfolios, ensuring the reduction of risk and maximizing return on investment. Our leadership position is founded upon our commitment to the upmost integrity, and the ongoing investment and acquisition of the knowledge and capabilities necessary to meet our clients’ evolving needs. When companies need assistance in managing their most complex technology or IP challenges, they turn to TechInsights for assured results.
UBM TechWeb
- UBM TechWeb enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology through its portfolio of trusted global brands, including InformationWeek, Interop, Light Reading, Game Developer Conference, Black Hat, Dr. Dobbs, and Web 2.0. More than 14.5 million technology professionals actively engage with UBM TechWeb brands, content and services. Our global community of professional technology decision-makers spans the entire industry and includes CIOs, senior IT managers, software and game developers, communications service providers, and business executives from small and mid-sized organizations to global enterprises across all industries.
