1987
Founded
Plimsoll Publishing begins with a focus on making company information clearer and faster to use.
About Us
About Plimsoll From a simple idea
From a simple idea
to a global product set
We started with one goal: make it easier to understand company performance at a glance. Today, we support teams across sales, credit, procurement and strategy with tools that turn data into decisions. Our approach is practical: highlight risk, surface opportunity, and save time — so you can act with confidence.
Explore the Plimsoll ModelMilestones that shaped how Plimsoll delivers insight.
Four decades of refining a single, repeatable model for reading company health.
Early 90's
The Great Expansion
Industry coverage expands and the foundations of repeatable analysis are established.
1995
New Products and services
The Plimsoll Model was adapted into new products and service such as Top 100 Reports and Business Buyers Guides
2000
The dotcom boom
Plimsoll growing catalogue of reports were taken online with a searchable website and ordering function
2001
Viva La France!
Plimsoll expanded into France and applied its model in its first overseas major economy
2002
The Plimsoll Valuation Service
A new service designed for instant valuations on any business, based around the Plimsoll Model was launched
2004
Plimsoll goes green
Plimsoll's move from paper to PDF and instant delivery of business intelligence was underway
2010
Global conquest
Plimsoll World was launched to provide reports in the global market and territories around the world. Quick to follow were specific business units in France, Spain, Japan, and the Nordic regions
2012
The launch of TALAT
The migration from paper to PDF to SaaS was completed with the launch of TALAT, our SaaS platform bringing the power of Plimsoll to an interactive platform
2017
The Acquisition Finder Service
We launched our fully customized, customer-criteria M&A target-matching service with one goal: to eliminate the search stage of acquisition prospecting
2020
Plimsoll Board Reports
The launch of a new service designed to give concise KPI analysis for board meetings, AGMs, and other C-Suite sessions.
Today
The world's leading analytical product suite
With a broad range of SaaS-based analytical products and services, Plimsoll continues to fulfill Don's dream of putting decision-ready analysis in the hands of busy managers and leaders.
See the model behind every Plimsoll report.
Four decades of refinement, one consistent framework. Find out how the Plimsoll Model rates companies in your industry today.
People who build, analyse and support the products.
Working together to keep information clear and useful — from raw filings to the decision a customer makes at 9am Monday.
Sylwia Wasowicz
Global Sales & Customer Service Associate
Hazelle Webster-Costella
Global Market Research Analyst
Ross Lindsay
Global Market Research Analyst