GFC Media Group

GFC Media Group is a leading capital markets events business, focused on serving a blue-chip client base of corporates, investors and finance professionals within high growth markets. GFC provides strong value to >8,000 attendees and > 300 corporates across its five leading events, helping clients achieve ROI through maintaining market positioning and presence, networking and meeting customers, and remaining informed on market developments. The market that GFC operates in is highly fragmented and driven by strong tailwinds with key market participants having a strong, ongoing need to attend. GFC has delivered impressive organic growth, underpinned by its reputation for high quality conferences, access to senior decision makers in global financial institutions, curated 1-2-1 meetings with sector leading NPS and high retention. The partnership with Horizon will enable GFC to continue to build on its strong momentum and supplement further organic growth with acquisitions. Horizon Capital has worked closely with the team to build upon a strategy of both organic and inorganic growth, supporting the identification and origination of M&A opportunities, execution support and capital for consolidation. Horizon Capital has been mapping the financial services events market and therefore has been able to leverage this sector knowledge and network to benefit GFC, building a strong pipeline of accretive acquisition targets alongside management’s extensive network.