- CEO
- Mark Francis Milner
- Full Time Employees
- 1,100
- Sector
- Consumer services
- Industry
- Publishing: books/magazines
- Address
- Suite 215/216 Fort Dunlop, 2nd Floor Birmingham GL United Kingdom B24 9FD
- IPO Date
- Dec 6, 1995
- Business
- Wilmington plc (LSE: WIL) provides data, information, education and training services in the global governance, risk and compliance (GRC) markets; its core offerings span health, safety and environmental (HSE) training through Astutis and Phoenix Health & Safety, which deliver public training, in-house training, qualifications, corporate consultancy and environmental training; legal training and information via Bond Solon and Pendragon, encompassing public training, in-house training, e-learning, webinars, conferences, expert witness training, witness familiarization, health and social care regulatory training, investigations training and legal/regulatory texts for the pensions industry; financial services insurance data and events including Axco's industry data, regulatory alerts and statistics alongside FRA's conferences and webinars; and financial services compliance through ICA's professional education, public and in-house training, end-point assessment; Mercia's public training, marketing services, website services and eLearning for accountants; CLT International's public training, in-house training, eLearning and qualifications for wealth managers; RISE's conferences, webinars, in-house training, eLearning and association services; and Wilmington Events' conferences, webinars and awards. The company, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Birmingham, United Kingdom, operates primarily in the UK with additional presence in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the US, serving regulated sectors such as financial services, legal, insurance, pensions, accounting and HSE across approximately 120 countries with over 600 employees. Recent developments include the October 2024 acquisition of Phoenix Health & Safety for an initial £30.25m plus earnouts to bolster HSE capabilities alongside the November 2023 Astutis purchase; the February 2025 sale of Compliance Week; the August 2025 announcement of the €121.6m (£105m) acquisition of Spanish RegTech firm Conversia, a data privacy compliance leader with over 70% recurring revenue, cleared for completion in late November 2025 and expected to be earnings accretive; plans to market US events business FRA for sale due to its limited digital capabilities; and ongoing investment in a single cloud-based RegTech platform to drive efficiencies, with FY25 ongoing revenue up 11% to £99.5m and adjusted PBT rising 18% to £28.4m reflecting seven of nine businesses growing and recurring revenue increasing to 36% of organic total.