- Acquisition of Sellics - integrated into Perpetua
- Acquisition of Intrepid
- Sale of MediaLink
- Acquisition of WhyteSpyder
- Acquisition of 4K Miles
- Acquisition of OneSpace
- Acquisition of Perpetua
- Sale of Groundsure and DeHavilland, the last of our BEP brands
- Acquisition of Yimian Data
- Acquisition of Indigitous
- Acquisition of Mining Searches UK
- Sale of Glenigan
- Acquisition of X Target
- Acquisition of Intellibrand
- Anna Reeves joins as Chief Marketing Officer
- Launch of Edge by Ascential
- Acquisition of Brand View
- Acquisition of WARC
- Sale of Exhibitions business
- Acquisition of Flywheel Digital
- Sale of RWM
- Acquisition of Clavis Insight
- Sale of MEED
- Launch of Ascential Intelligence Ventures
- Sale of 11 heritage brands to Metropolis
- Acquisition of MediaLink
- Sale of HSJ to Wilmington
- 13 heritage magazine brands separated and held for sale
- Launch of Money 20/20 Europe
- Acquisition of One Click Retail
- Creation of Ascential Events
- Money20/20 Europe delivers successful first European edition
- WGSN unites all its services onto one platform and upgrades retail analytics service, WGSN INstock
- Ascential plc lists on the London Stock Exchange
- Top Right Group rebrands to Ascential focused on two segments: exhibitions and festivals and information services
- Launch of Retail Week Prospect, a data intelligence tool for the retail technology sector
- Acquisition of Retail Net Group and integration with PlanetRetail, achieving greater coverage in North America
- Launch of CWIEME Istanbul
- New WGSN JV with China Textile Information Center to better serve and increase the number of WGSN customers in this pivotal market
- Launch of Nursing Times Learning digital product
- Launch of Lions Innovation – a new festival exploring data and technology as catalysts of creativity
- Announcement of the forthcoming 2016 launches of Lions Entertainment and Money 20/20 Europe
- Group revenues surpass £300m for the first time in our history. FY14 Group revenues were £312.7m and adjusted EBITDA was £85.3m, up from £271.4m and £69m respectively in FY13
- Acquisition of Money20/20, the leading event in payments and financial services innovation
- Launch of HSJ Intelligence – a data intelligence tool for the healthcare sector
- Launch of CWIEME China
- Launch of Lions Health – a new festival serving the healthcare communications industry
- Acquisition of Stylesight and launch of new WGSN.com – combining the best of WGSN and Stylesight
- Acquisition of Educar
- Launch of Bett LatAm
- Acquisition of Mindset and opening of Brazil office
- Launch of WGSN INstock
- Mandy Gradden joins as CFO
- Rebrands as Top Right Group in 2012 to reflect the structural changes and the organisation’s long-term growth and high performance aspirations
- Reorganised into agile operating companies, each positioned for sustainable top-line growth, with new leadership and separate business strategies
- Sale of CAP Motor Research
- Acquisition of CWIEME (Coil Winding Exhibitions)
- £37m transformation programme with investment in strong product and content creation, technology overhaul and introduction of new systems, including world-class sales and marketing platforms
- Duncan Painter joins as the new CEO from BSkyB plc
- On 29 January, EMAP plc completes the sale of its radio, television and consumer media businesses to German company Bauer
- In March, funds advised by Apax Partners and Guardian Media Group acquire EMAP plc's B2B business and take the business into private ownership
- EMAP Australia sold to ACP Magazines
- Strategic review announced after receiving a number of unsolicited proposals to purchase parts of the company
- Groundsure purchased
- PlanetRetail purchased
- EMAP sells its French division to Italy's Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
- WGSN is purchased
- Scottish Radio Holdings is acquired
- Cannes Lions, launched in 1954, purchased
- Petersen Publishing sold
- Petersen Publishing purchased in the US
- EMAP plc agrees to sell its 65 newspaper titles, including the 300-year-old Stamford Mercury, to Johnston Press for £111 million
- Glenigan, provider of leads and information for the construction industry, purchased
- Under the direction of 'Pat' Winfrey, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press (EMAP)
- Sir Richard Winfrey (1858-1944) purchases the Spalding Guardian and later purchases the Lynn News and the Peterborough Advertiser; he also starts the North Cambs Echo. During World War II Winfrey's newspaper interests begin to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson (‘Pat’) Winfrey (1902–1985).