ABOUT

Our leading brands connect people with knowledge, helping businesses and professionals in dozens of specialist markets to learn more, know more and do more.

We deliver this through a broad range of products and services: live and on-demand events, specialist media and content, expert and academic research, accredited training, digital demand generation services, audience development services, buyer intent platforms, and more.

We work in two main markets: in Academic Markets through our Taylor & Francis business, and in Business-to-Business Markets through our Informa Markets, Informa Connect and Informa Tech businesses.

Learn more about the brands, products and services we provide below, or read about the purpose and guiding principles that underpin our business.

Informa is a young company with deep roots. Formed in 1998, some of our brands trace their history back decades and in some cases, centuries.

Our Strategy
Our long-term strategy is to create accelerated growth by building scale in specialist markets and increasing the pace of digitisation throughout the business.

Purpose & Principles
Throughout Informa, in every market and Informa business, we share the same purpose: to champion the specialist, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.

Alongside this purpose, our teams and colleagues follow four distinct guiding principles.

These describe key aspects of our culture and what we believe in, and they guide how we engage with one another, with customers and with all our partners.

Market Trends
We operate in dozens of specialist markets, with brands and teams who focus on and are expert in each market.

While each is different, we have chosen to work in areas with good long-term growth potential and where demand for knowledge and connections is high.

Get to know some of our markets and the trends we are seeing in them through our colleagues.

Between 2021 and 2024 we are delivering this strategy through the Growth Acceleration Plan 2.

GAP 2 is our plan to grow further, faster and sustainably.

2022 - Informa Intelligence divestment

As part of GAP 2, Informa focuses on Academic Markets and B2B Markets, divesting our portfolio of Intelligence businesses including Lloyd’s List, Citeline and EPFR


2021 - Sustainability progress

Informa is ranked top of the global media sector for sustainability for the first time, by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index


2021 - Launch of GAP 2

At the end of 2021 Informa launched GAP 2 - the 2021-2024 Growth Acceleration Plan 2 - a programme to grow further, faster and sustainably through digitisation and further market specialisation


2021 – New intelligence brand

Launch of Curinos, a brand providing competitive intelligence and decision making tools in retail banking, created through the combination of Financial Intelligence’s FBX business with the company Novantas


2020 – Moving FasterFoward

Informa launched FasterForward, our approach to becoming an ever more sustainable business, with a series of activities and commitments running between 2020 and 2025


2020 - Specialist brands & markets

Launch of Omdia, the new brand for all our specialist Tech data and research products and services

F1000 Research joins Taylor & Francis, expanding our capabilities in open research publishing and our services to the research community


2019 - Performance & Growth

As part of the Accelerated Integration Plan, Informa updates its Group brand identity and the identities of several business divisions and creates a new fifth operating division, Informa Tech


2018 - Informa acquires UBM

Informa acquires global events company UBM in June 2018 to create a leading business-to-business information services Group, and launches an Accelerated Integration Plan to combine the business


2017 - Informa acquires YPI

Informa expands its position in the specialist International Yachting market through the purchase of YPI, a Florida-based exhibitions business


2016 - Informa enters the FTSE 100, acquires Penton

Informa becomes a member of the FTSE 100, an index of the largest UK-listed companies

Walk the World, Informa's annual global charity initiative launches

Informa completes £1.2bn acquisition of US based Penton Information Services


2015 - Informa expands in the US

Informa acquires specialist US exhibitions organisers Virgo and Hanley Wood, strengthening the Exhibitions business


2014- GAP 1 launched

Informa launches GAP 1 - the 2014-2017 Growth Acceleration Plan - which sees the business reorganise into four operating divisions, refocus on our chosen markets, add management talent and invest in products, people and platforms


2013 - China Beauty addition

Informa acquires a stake in Baiwen, organiser of China Beauty Expo, expanding its exhibitions and Asia presence


2012 - Informa acquires MMPI

Informa expands exhibitions business by acquiring Canadian exhibitions business MMPI


2007 - Informa acquires Datamonitor

Informa acquires Datamonitor, a publicly listed provided of business information


2005 - Informa acquires IIR Holdings

Informa acquires IIR Holdings and becomes the world's largest publicly-owned event, conference and training business with a presence in the Middle East


2004 - Informa and Taylor & Francis merge

Informa and academic publisher Taylor & Francis agree an independent merger


1998 - Informa is formed

Informa is formed with the merger of IBC Group plc and Lloyd's of London Press


1973 - IIR established

The Institute for International Research (IIR) is founded. Initially producing newsletters and then specialist conferences, which are now part of Informa Connect


1852 - Taylor & Francis founded

Richard Taylor, a publisher and Dr. William Francis, a chemist join forces to create the Taylor & Francis publishing company


1798 - Philosophical Magazine published

The Philosophical Magazine, now published by Informa's Taylor & Francis division, is produced by Richard Taylor