What PMGroup does

PMGroup Worldwide Ltd is a UK-based, privately held multi-channel media group serving the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. The company operates a portfolio of established brands — PMGroup, PharmaTimes, Samedan, and Hayward Medical Publishing — together with PM Live, its events and awards division. Its offering spans print publications (clinical research journals through medical communications titles), digital platforms (websites, digital magazines, apps, and online directories), and live events and award programmes for individuals, teams, products, and services across the pharma value chain.

The underlying platform is a content-and-events media stack rather than a software product: editorial content production for regulated audiences, distribution through owned web properties and social channels, and an in-person events/awards engine. There is no disclosed technology platform, API, SDK, or AI/ML layer; the "platform" is effectively a media portfolio operated under a unified group structure. PMGroup sits within the Datateam Business Media group, which provides corporate backing and shared infrastructure, and is headquartered at 44 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, with 101–250 employees.

The business model is a classic B2B vertical media model: revenue is generated through advertising and sponsorship across publications and digital properties, event/awards programme fees, and likely subscriptions and content licensing. Customer segments are healthcare and life sciences professionals and the pharmaceutical industry broadly, served globally. No pricing, revenue, customer logos, or financial KPIs are publicly disclosed, which limits commercial visibility into unit economics, customer concentration, and growth rate.

Name

PMGroup

Legal name

PMGroup Worldwide Ltd

Website

https://pmgrouplive.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

PMGroup Worldwide Ltd is a UK-based private multi-channel media group operating publication brands (PharmaTimes, Samedan, Hayward Medical Publishing), digital platforms, and an events/awards business (PM Live) serving pharmaceutical and life sciences professionals internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pharmaceutical Media & Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare/Pharma Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAJ)

Keywords

• Pharmaceutical media
• Medical publishing
• Healthcare communications
• Pharmaceutical events
• Life sciences journalism

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Bookham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

PMGroup is an international multi-channel media group serving the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries through a portfolio of established brands including PharmaTimes, Samedan, and Hayward Medical Publishing. The company delivers content and engagement across print publications, digital platforms, and live events tailored to healthcare and life sciences professionals. It also operates the PM Live events and awards programme, combining industry conferences with recognition schemes for pharmaceutical professionals.

Product overview

PMGroup Worldwide Ltd is a multi-brand media group operating as a portfolio of independent but related brands serving the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. The core offering spans four main publication brands (PMGroup, PharmaTimes, Samedan, and Hayward Medical Publishing), an events and awards division (PM Live), and digital services including websites, digital magazines, apps, and online directories. The company operates as a unified media group providing print, digital, and events channels to the healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PharmaTimes: Leading pharmaceutical industry publication offering news, analysis, and insights for healthcare professionals.
• Samedan
• Hayward Medical Publishing
• PM Live

Products and services

• PharmaTimes
• Samedan
• Hayward Medical Publishing
• PM Live
• Publications
• Websites and Digital
• Events and Awards

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Datateam Business MediacoreOthersPMGroup is a member of the Datateam Business Media group, which owns and supports the company's operations. This parent company relationship has enabled PMGroup to grow from small beginnings over 20 years ago to become a leading international multi-channel media group in the pharmaceutical industry.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Cogora: Cogora is a UK-based healthcare media and communications group publishing titles, running events and producing content for healthcare professionals. It is the closest direct peer to PMGroup given the shared UK base, multi-channel B2B healthcare media model, and audience overlap with pharma and life sciences professionals.
• Reuters Events (Pharma): Reuters Events runs large-scale B2B events, including pharma-focused conferences and awards. Its pharma events and awards franchise overlaps directly with PMGroup's PM Live events and competitions, competing for the same sponsorship dollars and industry participation.
• MJH Life Sciences: MJH Life Sciences is a US-based healthcare and pharma media group operating a portfolio of B2B publications, websites and live events. Its multi-brand, multi-channel model for healthcare professionals is structurally similar to PMGroup's, with overlap in clinical and pharma marketing audiences.
• Springer Healthcare (Adis): Springer Healthcare, including the Adis pharmacoeconomic and clinical publishing brand, is a specialist pharma medical communications and publishing business within Springer Nature. It competes with PMGroup in pharma medical communications, clinical publishing and industry intelligence, with overlapping advertiser and audience bases.
• Taylor & Francis (Pharma journals): Taylor & Francis publishes peer-reviewed pharma, clinical and life sciences journals and is an active publisher in the same healthcare content space as PMGroup. It is comparable in terms of journal-led pharma publishing and audience overlap with pharma researchers and marketers.
• Clarivate (BioWorld / Pharma Intelligence): Clarivate's Pharma Intelligence and BioWorld franchises deliver news, analysis and data to pharma executives and clinicians. They overlap directly with PMGroup's PharmaTimes news and insight offering and represent the data- and intelligence-led evolution of the same pharma media category PMGroup operates in.

Broad incumbents

• Wolters Kluwer Health: Wolters Kluwer Health is a large healthcare information and clinical decision provider serving pharma, clinicians and life sciences companies. It overlaps with PMGroup on clinical research publishing, medical communications content and pharma marketing intelligence, though at a much larger scale.
• Elsevier (Pharma & Life Sciences): Elsevier, part of RELX, is a global leader in scientific and medical publishing and a major producer of pharma clinical and commercial content. It is a broad incumbent in the same healthcare/pharma content ecosystem as PMGroup, with overlapping audiences in clinical research, medical communications and life sciences.
• Wiley (Life Sciences & Pharma): Wiley is a major academic and scientific publisher with established pharma and life sciences journals and books. It competes with PMGroup for pharma readership, society partnerships and advertising spend in clinical and life sciences content.
• Informa (Pharma & Life Sciences): Informa is a global B2B events, publishing and intelligence group with a large Pharma & Life Sciences portfolio spanning events (CPhI, Fierce Pharma), publications and data products. It is a broader incumbent rather than a niche specialist, but it competes directly for pharma marketing spend, sponsorships and content audiences that PMGroup also targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/pmlivecom
• Facebookfacebook.com/pmlivecom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/groups/1906151

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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