What We Do

Informa provides academics, businesses and individuals with unparalleled knowledge, up-to-the minute information and highly specialist skills and services. With around 8,000 employees working in some 150 offices in over 40 countries, our global reach and breadth of offer is unique.

Our academic information division publishes books and journals with over 55,000 titles available that provide individuals and organisations with the knowledge they need to carry out their work.

Our professional and commercial information businesses offer structured databases, subscription-based services, real-time news, research and business-critical information creating business advantage.

We are the largest publicly-owned organiser of exhibitions, events and training in the world providing inspiring marketplaces and the opportunity for knowledge to be shared.

In all businesses we have the technology to deliver dynamic, multi-platform solutions tailored to our customers needs, we have many leading product brands in the various markets we work in and, due to our focus on operational efficiency and excellent management, we are highly respected by shareholders and the financial markets.

By Type

Revenue by Type

36%Subscriptions
17%Copy sales
3%Advertising
26%Delegates
9%Exhibition
4%Sponsorship
5%Consulting

By Business

Revenue by Business

25%Academic information
30%Professional & commercial
45%Events & training

Where We Work

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Education & Public Sector

With the world economies in turmoil, and pressure on all countries to cut costs in government departments and the public sector, now has never been a better time to seek expertise to facilitate change and efficiencies to help the public purse.

Informa have a number of businesses that provide expertise in this sector including Datamonitor, a world leader in providing global business information, independent data, analysis and opinion.

Also Informa Economics, is the world leader in broad-based agricultural and commodity market research, analysis and consulting. Founded in 1977, the company now serves hundreds of firms, government agencies and institutions worldwide.

Agra is a specialist consultancy in economic and policy analysis for the agrifood sector. Its clients include governments, institutions, and corporations worldwide, including the European Commission, UK DEFRA, WTO, Monsanto, Pfizer, ALIC, and many more.

Academic

Taylor & Francis through the imprints Routledge, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis and Psychology Press provide a range of titles in books, eBooks and journal formats.

Professional & Commercial

Datamonitor is a world-leading provider of premium global business information, delivering independent data, analysis, and opinion across the automotive, consumer packaged goods, retail and sourcing industries. Business Insights specialises in analysing the changing market landscape – providing thought leadership and key data on fast-growth areas, evolving threats and opportunities, and winning strategies to both blue chip and emerging companies.

MedTRACK is the most comprehensive, fully-integrated, global biomedical database, providing a one-stop-shop for information on companies, products, patents, deals, venture financing, and epidemiology.

Ovum's analyst and consulting teams help companies to make smarter business and technology decisions. Drawing on over 400,000 interviews a year with business, technology, telecoms, and sourcing decision-makers, Ovum’s research provides unparalleled insight into the telecoms and technology trends that matter.

Events & Training

The Career Expo series has been running for more than 20 years and has grown to become the largest career and education exhibition in Singapore and the wider region. Jointly organised by the Singapore Professional Centre and IIR Exhibitions with the support of The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), the event has successfully added training as an important segment to offer a more expansive career event. More than 50,000 students, graduates and job seekers visit each year to see a wide variety of career & training opportunities exhibited by hundreds of organisations.

Informa Australia first ran the The Higher Education Summit in 2002 and is now an annual event that features International keynote presentations with case studies from Australia's leading institutions and interactive roundtables discussing, debating and determining the future direction of the tertiary education sector.

Also in Australia - IIR have the Vocational Education Summit which brings together leading VET and HE industry professionals to discuss new initiatives for improvement throughout the vocational education sector. The Vocational Education Summit offers key case studies and insightful presentations on what can be expected from the National VET Regulator, analysis on the continued push for VET providers into higher education, promoting effective industry partnerships and engagement, and a blueprint for tertiary education in Australia.

Informa Performance Improvement (IPI) is also active in this sector. IPI partners with the world’s leading organisations to help improve the critical skills of their employees. IPI works at both the individual and organisational levels to boost performance by developing the capabilities needed to strengthen business strategy.

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What We Do

By Type

By Business

Where We Work

Education & Public Sector

Academic

Professional & Commercial

Events & Training

Where we operate

AFRICA

AMERICAS

ASIA

AUSTRALASIA

MIDDLE EAST

EUROPE