World's Fair

What World's Fair does

World's Fair is a United Kingdom-based newspaper publication founded in 1904 and headquartered in Oldham. The title covers the funfair and showmen's industry, providing news on funfairs, the Showmen's Guild, business services relevant to travelling shows and fairground operators, and political developments affecting the sector. It is privately held and operates as a for-profit entity with a small staff of 1–10 employees, consistent with a specialist single-title trade publication serving a narrow UK vertical rather than a mass-market consumer publication.

The company's core product is a journalism offering — news coverage targeted at showmen, fairground operators, and the trade ecosystem surrounding them. The input data does not disclose any proprietary technology platform, digital product extensions, or technical architecture; the company website (worldsfair.co.uk) was not accessible for content extraction at the time of the source pull, yielding only a loading/verification placeholder. There is no evidence of a separate digital subscription product, events business, or data services offering in the available data.

The business model is not explicitly disclosed in the supplied information. As a long-running trade newspaper it would historically have relied on a combination of print circulation, advertising from fairground and showmen's suppliers, and potentially subscription revenue, but no pricing model, advertising rates, or revenue split is documented. Customer segments are not specified beyond the implicit inference that the served audience is the UK showmen's and funfair trade. The overall data set is thin: there are no disclosed financials, no management team, no named customers, no partnerships, no funding history, and no M&A or strategic transaction record.

Name

World's Fair

Website

https://worldsfair.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1904

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

World's Fair is a UK-based newspaper founded in 1904, headquartered in Oldham, that provides news on funfairs, the Showmen's Guild, related business services, and political updates for the showmen's trade.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trade Newspaper Publishing

NAICS

Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers (424920)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Community & Multi-Category Fairs (MPAGAFAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Consumer Expos & Trade Shows (MPAGAFAA), Beauty, Fashion & Pop-Culture Conventions (MPAGAFAG)

Keywords

• Trade newspaper publishing
• Funfair industry news
• Showmen's guild coverage
• Fairground trade press
• Travelling showman news

Headquarters

HQ city

Oldham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

World's Fair is a newspaper publication that provides news on funfairs, showmen's guild, business services, and political updates. It serves as a dedicated trade press title covering the UK fairground and travelling showmen industry, founded in 1904 and based in Oldham, United Kingdom.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• World's Fair (newspaper) A trade newspaper providing news on funfairs, showmen's guild activities, business services, and political updates, aimed at UK fairground operators and travelling showmen industry professionals.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Emerging players

• Attractions Magazine: US-focused digital publication covering theme parks, fairs, and attractions. Comparable as an advertising-supported media outlet competing for the same supplier and event marketing budgets that fund trade publications like World's Fair.
• Blooloop: Digital-first B2B publication covering the global attractions, theme park, and museum industry. Comparable as a competing information channel for the same leisure attractions advertisers, and illustrative of the digital trajectory World's Fair may need to follow.

Direct peers

• Park World Magazine: UK and Ireland trade magazine covering the theme park and attractions industry. Comparable as a regionally focused trade publication serving the broader UK leisure attractions and fair ecosystem that World's Fair also covers.
• Amusement Today: US-based trade newspaper covering the amusement, carnival, and fair industry. Directly comparable as a long-running B2B trade publication serving showmen, ride operators, and fair suppliers — the same core constituency as World's Fair in the UK.
• Coinslot: UK trade publication covering the coin-operated amusement, arcade, and gaming machine industry. Comparable as a niche UK trade press title with a similar lean team and similar advertiser base among UK leisure and amusement operators.
• InterGame: International trade magazine for the amusement, gaming, and coin-op industries. Comparable as a B2B trade title whose advertising base overlaps heavily with the showmen's guild, ride suppliers, and fairground operators World's Fair serves.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/worldsfairnews
• Facebookfacebook.com/worldsfairltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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