CBM is organised into nine editorial divisions — each one dedicated to a single sector, home to nine specialist brands and three flagship live events, and built around practitioner editors with tightly-scoped audiences. Planned individually, bought in combination, and all answering to one independent publisher with offices in London, New York and Florida.
Each CBM division maps to a real sector our audience is working in — not a generic content vertical designed for SEO. That's why we don't have a "lifestyle" division, and why we do have a renewable energy one.
Every division is led by a specialist editor and supported by a dedicated commercial lead. Together they set the editorial calendar, run the brands inside the division, and plan integrated campaigns for the advertisers that buy into it.
CBM was built on business reporting, and Business remains our largest division. Anchored by Business Matters — founded in 1986, nearly four decades of continuous SME publishing — and extending outward into Optimum for the senior CEO/founder audience, and Not Ltd for the 4.1 million sole traders, freelancers and micro-businesses that aren't running a limited company. Three titles, one joined-up view of the people who actually make Britain's business economy work.
The Finance & Investing division serves the people putting real money to work — portfolio landlords, SME owners financing growth, institutional and private-client fund managers, investors hunting yield, and the advisors who sit between them and the market. Anchored by Property Portfolio Investor in the UK, Fund Manager Today out of our New York office for the institutional audience, and a cross-brand SME finance vertical feeding off Business Matters.
CBM made an early bet on the electrification of the UK car market and it's paid off — launched in 2020, EV Powered has been 100% EV-positive from day one and is now the country's leading independent voice on electric vehicles. Its reach spans a carbon-neutral print magazine distributed free at ~200 Gridserve Hubs UK-wide, the Everything EV podcast, and a YouTube channel with over 3.5 million lifetime views.
The Renewable Energy division is built on the observation that UK households are electrifying everything at once — the car on the drive, the boiler in the cupboard, the roof, the battery, the tariff. EV Powered and Electric Home are the two CBM brands serving that transition, and the division serves advertisers reaching net-zero-engaged consumers and early adopters.
CBM's Travel division is deliberately B2B. Travelling For Business serves corporate travel buyers, TMC procurement, travel managers and the suppliers who sell into them — airlines, hotels, rail, route operators and MICE venues. 21% of the audience sits in the US, which is exactly why we opened the New York office in 2018. Alongside the title sits the Travelling For Business Awards — a black-tie gala every October in London with 23 award categories covering airlines, lounges, hotels, MICE destinations, car rental, luggage and travel apps.
CBM's Property division covers the full spectrum of UK property with a clear investor-first angle. Property Portfolio Investor delivers data, yields and regional market intelligence for serious landlords; Electric Home adds the retrofit, heat pump and solar story to the division's coverage of the housing stock itself.
Contract Publishing is CBM's white-label division. We build custom publications for brands, associations and corporates using the same editorial, design and production team that powers our own titles — digital magazines, annual and sustainability reports, print + digital hybrid titles, and long-running customer publications delivered end-to-end.
Looking for brand voice and founder personal-brand content? CBM’s craft-led content studio, The Content Crafting Co., builds corporate and personal brand content as one connected system.
The Live Events & Awards division turns CBM's specialist audiences into rooms. Three flagship awards anchor the year: the Business Champion Awards for Britain's best founders, scale-ups and specialist entrepreneurs; the Travelling For Business Awards every October for the corporate travel industry; and in 2026 the newly-launched Rural Business Awards, recognising the entrepreneurs powering Britain's rural economy. Around them sit sector summits, partner events, roundtables and brand-hosted dinners across the full portfolio.
The real power of CBM's division structure is how they combine. Three examples of the cross-division plays our commercial team builds most often — and the problem each one solves for advertisers.
Combines the Renewable Energy division with Property — so an advertiser selling heat pumps, solar, batteries or retrofit finance reaches EV drivers, early adopters, homeowners and portfolio landlords in a single integrated buy, rather than having to plan across four separate publishers.
Combines the Business division with Live Events & Awards. An advertiser — typically a bank, fintech, professional services firm or growth lender — runs year-round branded content on Business Matters and Not Ltd, with headline or category sponsorship of the Business Champion Awards as the centrepiece.
Combines Finance & Investing with Business. A BTL lender, commercial lender, wealth manager or specialist bank reaches Property Portfolio Investor's 46% portfolio-landlord audience alongside Business Matters' SME-owner base — the two audiences that drive most of the specialist finance market.
Every division has a dedicated commercial lead. Pick the right one and you'll skip the reception desk — your brief goes directly to the person who plans and runs campaigns across the brands in that division.
For banks, fintech, SME software, professional services, leadership and peak-performance brands, and anyone whose audience is a UK founder, senior executive or sole trader.
sales.bm@cbmeg.co.ukFor mortgage lenders, BTL specialists, wealth managers, SME finance providers, institutional fund houses and proptech. London and New York desks.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadFor OEMs, fleet, charging infrastructure, solar, battery, heat pumps, energy suppliers and smart home.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadFor airlines, hotels, TMCs, MICE venues, ground transport, expense tech, corporate travel suppliers and Travelling For Business Awards sponsors.
ralvin@cbmeg.co.ukFor landlord finance, proptech, property services, retrofit suppliers and development finance.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadFor brands and associations commissioning custom magazines, annual reports and customer publications.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadFor headline & category sponsorship of the Business Champion Awards, Travelling For Business Awards, Rural Business Awards 2026 and CBM sector summits.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadFor multi-division campaigns and group-level partnerships across the full CBM portfolio.
[PLACEHOLDER] → email leadKnow which division you need? Get straight through to the commercial lead above. Not sure? Start with the media pack — it covers all eight divisions and arrives in your inbox in under five minutes.
