Our Markets
Weddings
With renowned products such as The National Wedding Show, as well as the more recent additions to the portfolio, Confetti.co.uk and the Destination Wedding & Honeymoon Show, Ocean are firmly established as market leaders in the UK wedding industry. Through our comprehensive weddings portfolio, we connect couples planning their big day with their dream wedding suppliers.
Following the 2017 acquisition of Confetti.co.uk and the launch of Confetti magazine, as well as the launch of Wedding Style Collective, we have further established ourselves as the key industry media owner and extended our enviable reach and expertise in the UK wedding market – a buoyant and regenerative sector worth an estimated £13b per annum.
Housing
Ocean Media Group is the market leader in housing across print, digital and events. The Housing Portfolio includes the flagship publications, Inside Housing and Social Housing, which are read by 25,000 subscribers and a portfolio of conferences, exhibitions and awards including Europe’s leading housing festival, which is attended by over 9,000 housing professionals. The housing business is Ocean’s largest portfolio.
Lifestyle
Our Lifestyle portfolio is comprised of two sectors, Flooring and Stationery. The divisions includes two annual exhibitions, a print magazine and digital content sites.
The Flooring Show is the UK’s largest trade show dedicated to the industry. Thousands of retailers, contractors, distributors, fitters, designers and developers attend every year as the industry meets, connects and does business. The show has been running for over 60 years and was acquired by Ocean Media in 2017.
Ocean’s Stationery portfolio includes London Stationery Show and Stationery Matters magazine. This division meets the diverse stationery community’s buying needs through its live exhibition, London Stationery Show which hosts over 1,500 buyers. Stationery Matters is a trade-only publication which is printed annually and Stationerymatters.news produces weekly content helping independent stores with all aspects of running a stationery business.
Bridal
Ocean has over 30 years of experience in delivering best in class events and market-leading publications within the B2B bridal sector.
The division runs exhibitions three times a year. Bridal Week Harrogate, takes place twice a year, running in both March and September. Harrogate has long been established as one of the largest and most respected bridal trade shows in the world and is known by many as the #HOMEOFBRIDAL.
The official show publication Bridal Buyer has been an industry constant for over 30 years. Distributed to virtually all high-street bridal boutiques across the UK, Bridal Buyer has cultivated a reputation as the premier bridal trade magazine in Europe.
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