
2022 Annual Report:
Strength and Specialisation
2022 was a strong and successful year for Informa. Read about our growth and progress and see stories from across the business in our 2022 Annual Report
Momentum and growth
Group Chief Executive Review
2022 was a highly successful year, with strong growth in all our businesses, high levels of customer satisfaction, encouraging colleague engagement, an excellent sustainability performance and improving shareholder returns.
Clear goals, confident decisions
Chair’s introduction to Governance
If 2021 was a year of planning, 2022 was a year of action. The Board oversaw significant strategic activity and the company ended the year in an excellent position as a stronger, more focused Informa.

Watch: Our 2022 highlights, animated
2022 saw more than strong financial results. Our products expanded, we served millions of customers and grew our audience while delivering on our sustainability commitments. We welcomed new talent and promoted many great colleagues too. Watch the video for a snapshot.
2022 Financial Results
In 2022, we delivered strong underlying growth across all our businesses, strong value from our GAP 2 Portfolio Focus programme and accelerating shareholder returns through share buybacks and dividends.
There was improving growth in Academic Markets, strong growth in live and on-demand events and further progress in B2B digital services.
We entered 2023 with robust operational momentum across our businesses and significant balance sheet strength, which provides the flexibility to support underlying growth with further expansion, while continuing to invest internally and improve returns to shareholders.
Revenue
Underlying revenue growth
Adjusted operating profit
Statutory operating profit
Free cash flow
Group net debt
Except for Group net debt, these metrics relate to Informa’s continuing operations, after the divestment of three Informa Intelligence businesses during 2022 and their treatment as discontinued operations.
GAP 2 in Action

Portfolio Focus
Portfolio Focus
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.

Digital & Data
Digital & Data
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.

Leadership and Talent
Leadership and Talent
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.

Investment
Investment
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.

Accelerating Returns
Accelerating Returns
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.

FasterForward
FasterForward
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.

The Board’s Year
2022 was all about the how, as the Board’s focus switched from planning to delivery and driving significant corporate and investment activity as GAP 2 gained momentum.
Read more about how we engaged with stakeholders, supported Informa’s culture and took decisions, during what was a positive and productive year.
Snapshot of how we complied with the UK Corporate Governance Code
Market Trends

Transforming research
Transforming research
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.

The power of face-to-face
The power of face-to-face
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.

Helping B2B marketers
Helping B2B marketers
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.

For us, sustainability is not only about being a responsible business and contributor to our communities but also an opportunity to better serve customers and expand the positive impact we can make in our markets.
In 2022 we continued to make progress towards our sustainability goals and were ranked top of the global media sector by DJSI for the second year running.

Our colleagues and culture
Nothing is more important to us than our colleagues and our culture.
Read about how we are helping our colleagues to live and work well and ensure they feel engaged and supported, and how this helps us deliver better results, faster growth and contribute to thriving communities and economies.
