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Informa, the global information specialist, continues to perform well in the second half of the year. Strong trading in our important September, October and November months which account for around 35% of Group operating profit, is carrying on into December. The Board is confident that the 2007 performance will be in line with our significant growth expectations. Organic revenue on a constant currency basis* is projected to increase by 9%.
Lloyd’s MIU is pleased to announce that it has launched a free maritime statistics section on www.lloydsmiu.com.
The new online resource is powered by the world’s largest marine database and provides key industry information on vessels, companies, ports, casualties and port state control.
Informa plc announces that Adam Walker has agreed to become Finance Director of the Company. He is currently the Finance Director of National Express Group plc.
Informa, leading international provider of specialist information, is adopting the virtual world Second Life as an innovative way to help employees develop their own careers. The virtual world enables employees to wander around ‘Transformed Careers Island’ so they can map their career progression by gaining information on job functions and the competencies required to perform those roles.
Informa has secured a private area within the virtual reality site Second Life for staff to search for career opportunities by visiting departments within the group.
Employees can adopt a virtual personality that can take a tour of the business units, each of which has their own building on Informa's 'island', to find out more about career opportunities and the skills they need to develop, by talking to colleagues on-line.
Lloyd’s List takes another step forward in its online publishing strategy, unveiling the ePaper, a fully featured digital edition, available to subscribers and new readers on a 'pay as you go'.
The ePaper replicates the newspaper pages, allowing subscribers to get the same experience as readers of the newspaper edition. But it also offers additional functionality, including the ability to email and print stories and to save them to a clippings folder, enabling readers to compile their own limited archive of Lloyd’s List content.
Informa Research Services, Inc. (http://www.informars.com), today announced it will provide mortgage and home equity data on Yahoo! Real Estate (lues, local schools, and home mortgage rates. Consumers can visit Yahoo! Real Estate at http://realestate.yahoo.com/), providing consumers with the most current, locally relevant mortgage information available.
India continues to grow in stature as publishing market. Not so long ago it struggled to provide printing of a standard compatible with western quality controls. Now it is one of the premier providers of print services and increasingly is a source of first division research and published content. Not just because it is a relatively cheap labour market but because the use of English is now of such a high standard and because as the nation grows dramatically in economic terms the education expands with it.
Taylor & Francis would like to congratulate the winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert, who were awarded the prize for their independent discoveries of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR).
Omega Performance announces the release of Leading People Through Change, its new paper on leadership skills and techniques for change management. The paper is available for download at omega-performance.com.
Organizations that are successful at change understand that change occurs one person at a time. Effective change management is based on spending enough time and effort on the individuals in the organization, not trying to make change happen to the organization. This distinction often challenges today's change leaders, according to company research and analysis presented in the paper.
