United Business Media (www.ubm.com) is a leading global business media company. It informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provides them with the information they need to do business successfully. It focuses on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Its 5,900 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business successfully and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.
UBM is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and reported an annual revenue of £848m in 2009.
UBM has two principal areas of business activity:
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Distributing news and information from the world's top companies, organisations and agencies - UBM's business in this market is PR Newswire.
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erving professional and commercial communities of buyers and sellers with media products that integrate events, online, print and business information - UBM has a number of businesses operating in this market.