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Retail Dive

U.S. B2B trade media, industry-focused

Owned byInforma TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT), a publicly traded company majority-controlled by Informa plc, a UK-based global publishing and events group. Retail Dive operates under Industry Dive, a subsidiary within Informa TechTarget.
FundingPrimarily B2B advertising — direct ad sales to companies marketing to retail professionals. No paywalls; newsletters and website are free. No programmatic advertising; roughly 80–90% of revenue comes from direct advertiser relationships.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Retail Dive was launched in 2012 as part of Industry Dive, a Washington, D.C.-based B2B media company founded by Sean Griffey, Eli Dickinson, and Ryan Willumson — veterans of the trade publisher FierceMarkets. Industry Dive built a portfolio of free, advertising-supported newsletters covering dozens of sectors, with Retail Dive among its flagship titles. In 2019, Charlotte-based private equity firm Falfurrias Capital Partners acquired a majority stake, providing capital that funded five acquisitions and accelerated growth toward roughly $80–100 million in annual revenue. In September 2022, Informa plc, a publicly traded UK publishing and events giant, bought Industry Dive from Falfurrias for approximately $525 million. In December 2024, Informa merged its digital business units — including Industry Dive — with the U.S.-listed company TechTarget, creating Informa TechTarget, now traded on Nasdaq. Throughout these ownership changes, Retail Dive maintained a journalism-first, no-paywall model focused on retail industry professionals. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it as least biased and high in factual reporting, consistent with its reputation as a straightforward trade news source with minimal editorial opinion.

Sources

  1. Industry Dive — Wikipedia
  2. Scoop: Industry Dive to sell to UK-based events firm Informa — Axios
  3. Informa buys US B2B publisher Industry Dive for £323m — Press Gazette
  4. Informa acquires Industry Dive — Crunchbase
  5. TechTarget Announces Shareholder Approval for Combination with Informa Tech's Digital Businesses — Informa TechTarget
  6. How Industry Dive grew into a B2B media empire — Simon Owens / Substack
  7. CEO interview: B2B without paywalls, how Industry Dive grew into $80m 'journalism-first' business — Press Gazette
  8. RetailDive — Bias and Credibility — Media Bias/Fact Check
  9. New tariffs, same uncertainty for retailers — Retail Dive
  10. Retail roulette: How Trump's tariffs altered buying — Retail Dive

Profile compiled 2026-08-26; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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