Wilmington plc

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.[1]

It publishes:

In 2000, Wilmington acquired Binley's, a provider of NHS healthcare intelligence and tools for (amongst others) pharmaceutical supplier sales organisations.[4] 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.[citation needed]

It sold What Wine? to William Reed Publishing in December 2005.[5]

Mercia Group, a provider of accountancy training, was acquired in 2006.[6]

It bought Press Gazette in 2006 and sold it in 2009.[7]

Wilmington bought NHiS ("NHS Insights") in 2013.[8]

Wellards, an e-learning provider for salespeople in pharmaceuticals and medical technology, was acquired in 2016 and rebranded as the Digital Learning Academy.[1]

It bought the Health Service Journal from Ascential in January 2017.[9]

Wilmington published the long-established Solicitors Journal from the 1990s until closing it in 2017.[10]

  1. ^ a b "Wilmington History". Wlimington plc. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ^ "About Compliance Week". Compliance Week. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  3. ^ "A short history of Pension Funds Online". Pension Funds Online. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. ^ "About Binley's". Archived from the original on 25 October 2019.
  5. ^ Robinson, Jancis, jancisrobinson.com. "publications and websites".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "About us". Mercia Group. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Wilmington buys Press Gazette". Press Gazette. 8 December 2006
  8. ^ "Pharma Insight Co NHiS Sold to Wilmington Group". MrWeb. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  9. ^ "New owner for HSJ announced". Health Service Journal. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  10. ^ Ponsford, Dominic (15 September 2017). "Wilmington to shut down Solicitors Journal after 160 years in print". Press Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2020.