The target audience of Le Nouvel Économiste include government officials, policy makers, CEOs, investors and high income earners.

[3] Le Nouvel Économiste resulted from the merger in 1975 of the titles Entreprise (controlled by Hachette) and Informations industrielles et commerciales (owned by Havas) under the management of Jacques Klein and then Daniel Jouve and Michel Tardieu, following the merger of the publishing groups Usine Participation and Compagnie française d'édition, which became Compagnie européenne de publications (CEP) .

In 2016, Bruno Ledoux acquired a stake in the company, which was in difficulty at the time, alongside other entrepreneurs and professionals from the world of finance and the media, such as Michèle Cotta, Henri de Bodinat, Gonzagues de Blignières, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Henri Nijdam, Jean-François Hénin, Alexandre Almajeanu, Jean-René Tancrède, Stéphane Fouks, Ming-Po Cai, Anthony Ginter, Lionel Zinsou, Christophe Aulnette and Henri de Maublanc.

Directeur Général : Alexandre Almajeanu Rédaction en chef : Jean-Michel Lamy, Edouard Laugier & Philippe Plassart.

Coordination dossiers : Marie-Line Lybrecht Secrétariat de rédaction : Aurélie Percheron Chroniqueurs : Ardavan Amir-Aslani, Alain Bauer, Philippe Barret, Michèle Cotta, Jean-Marc Daniel, Philippe Delmas,François Ecalle, Pascal Lorot, Paul-Henri Moinet, Bertrand Jacquillat, Olivier Clodong, Xavier Raufer, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos, Charly Salkazanov, Gaël Tchakaloff, Frédéric Thiriez, Anne Toulouse, Roxana Azimi.