2022 Annual Report:
Strength and Specialisation 

A key part of our Portfolio Focus programme was the divestment our three Informa Intelligence businesses, achieved during 2022. We realised a value of almost £2.5bn from the divestments. This is being reinvested in growth initiatives across the company and supporting increased shareholder returns.

To support the expansion of our digital services, we acquired US-based specialist B2B digital content business Industry Dive in September 2022. We are accelerating Industry Dive’s expansion into more specialist markets and harnessing its first-party customer data across our B2B businesses.

Our aim is to grow our talent and further develop our leaders and colleagues with a focus on building world-class data and digital skills. In 2022 our IIRIS team delivered large-scale training covering the importance of data to Informa’s strategy, the launch of a new data framework, case studies and simulation exercises.  

We are investing up to a further £150m in programmes and projects that accelerate digitisation and bring Informa closer to customers. To do this, a programme office has been set up to assess investment cases from each division and allocate additional funding to the most significant projects that deliver on digital acceleration, product development and new and incremental growth. 

After pausing dividends during the pandemic to ensure the company’s stability and financial security, in 2022 we were able to return to sharing the benefits of accelerated growth and value creation with shareholders.  

In 2022 we continued to accelerate our sustainability performance and embed sustainable practices into all parts of our business, delivering on our nine FasterForward targets.  

In research communication, there is transition underway in how research is published and shared, from a more traditional subscription-funded model to a mixed model of subscriptions and a funded open access environment.  

Learn about the ways in which Taylor & Francis is supporting this change.  

2022 demonstrated that the opportunity to make in-person connections holds more value than ever. From building relationships in person and gathering in one place at scale, to making complex and high-value purchasing decisions, exhibitions deliver a lot. 

Read more about how the dynamic Indian market is maximising the commercial power of events post-pandemic.  

The path to purchase for B2B customers is increasingly complex and filled with a distracting amount of information. The ability for marketers to target and reach the right audience at the right time, with the right solution, is more important than ever. 

Found out how Industry Dive is helping marketers to do this through its high-quality specialist journalism and use of first-party data.