Informa plc
Encyclopedia
Informa plc is a multinational
publishing
and conference company with its head office in Zug
, Switzerland
and its registered office in St Helier, Jersey
. It has offices in more than 43 countries and more than 8,500 employees. It owns numerous brands including AchieveGlobal
, CRC Press
, Datamonitor
, ESI International
, Lloyd's List
, Routledge
and Taylor & Francis
.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
.
, now one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, began covering London
shipping news.
Informa itself was created in 1998 by the merger of IBC Group plc and LLP Group plc. Since then Informa has expanded considerably, including a 2004 merger with the publishing company Taylor & Francis and a 2005 acquisition of IIR Holdings, a human capital development company, for £768 million. In October 2006, the company was approached by Springer Science and Business Media in a takeover bid, but in early November the Informa board rejected the 630p per share offer as too low.
In early 2007, chairman Richard Hooper announced his retirement in May and, after consulting with major shareholders, the company moved chief executive Peter Rigby to chairman, and managing director David Gilbertson to Rigby's former post. Informa explained Rigby's move by the need to maintain management stability, although it generated some controversy because it did not follow the advice of the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance
.
On 8 June 2008, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that United Business Media
(UBM) had proposed a merger with Informa to create a media group worth over £3 billion. The talks were confirmed by Informa in a press release that same day, but described as "preliminary". Previously on May 13 The Times
had reported that the Carlyle Group
and Apax Partners
were considering bidding for the company. On June 17 talks with UBM ended because of the rapid rise in Informa's stock price after the public disclosure of the potential merger. On June 26 a private equity consortium consisting of Providence Equity Partners
, the Carlyle Group
and Hellman & Friedman
proposed a takeover bid offering 506 pence per share.
On 1 May 2009 the company announced that it would be restructure its business so it was incorporated in Jersey
but tax resident in Switzerland
.
annually, and publishes newsletters, academic journal
s, commercial databases, and academic and business books. Topics covered include arts and humanities through social sciences
to physical science
and technology
; and finance
and the law
through to telecommunications, maritime trade, energy
, biotech, commodities and agriculture
. Its online publishing portal Informaworld provides subscribers with more than half a million journal articles and 13,000 e-books from all its imprints. Besides publishing, the group has several other interests represented by the brands it owns in many countries. These brands (companies) work in the areas of performance improvement and management consulting. It has the following divisions:
Multinational corporation
A multi national corporation or enterprise , is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation...
publishing
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
and conference company with its head office in Zug
Zug
Zug , is a German-speaking city in Switzerland. The name ‘Zug’ originates from fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to ‘pull up’ fishing nets and hence to the right to fish.The city of Zug is located in the Canton of Zug and is its capital...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and its registered office in St Helier, Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
. It has offices in more than 43 countries and more than 8,500 employees. It owns numerous brands including AchieveGlobal
AchieveGlobal
AchieveGlobal, Inc. is a provider of learning-based solutions focused on skills training and consulting in leadership development, sales effectiveness, and customer service training....
, CRC Press
CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group which specializes in producing technical books. While many of their books relate to engineering, science and mathematics, their scope also includes books on business, forensics and information technology...
, Datamonitor
Datamonitor
Datamonitor is an international company providing market intelligence, data analysis and opinion via a worldwide network of in-house analysts. According to the organization's website in 2011, Datamonitor assists over 6000 of the world’s leading corporations in making strategic and operational...
, ESI International
ESI International
ESI International, Inc. is a provider of learning-based solutions focused on skills training and consulting in project management, program management, business analysis, business skills and contract management....
, Lloyd's List
Lloyd's List
Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 59,200...
, Routledge
Routledge
Routledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
and Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom which publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company.- Overview :...
.
It is listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index
FTSE 250 Index
The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. Promotions to and demotions from the index take place quarterly in March, June, September and December...
.
History
Informa's oldest business started in 1734 when Lloyd's ListLloyd's List
Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 59,200...
, now one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, began covering London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
shipping news.
Informa itself was created in 1998 by the merger of IBC Group plc and LLP Group plc. Since then Informa has expanded considerably, including a 2004 merger with the publishing company Taylor & Francis and a 2005 acquisition of IIR Holdings, a human capital development company, for £768 million. In October 2006, the company was approached by Springer Science and Business Media in a takeover bid, but in early November the Informa board rejected the 630p per share offer as too low.
In early 2007, chairman Richard Hooper announced his retirement in May and, after consulting with major shareholders, the company moved chief executive Peter Rigby to chairman, and managing director David Gilbertson to Rigby's former post. Informa explained Rigby's move by the need to maintain management stability, although it generated some controversy because it did not follow the advice of the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance
Corporate governance
Corporate governance is a number of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions which have impact on the way a company is controlled...
.
On 8 June 2008, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that United Business Media
United Business Media
UBM plc is a magazine publisher, news distributor and events organiser providing business information services principally to the technology, healthcare, media, automotive and financial services industries...
(UBM) had proposed a merger with Informa to create a media group worth over £3 billion. The talks were confirmed by Informa in a press release that same day, but described as "preliminary". Previously on May 13 The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
had reported that the Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...
and Apax Partners
Apax Partners
Apax Partners LLP is a global private equity and venture capital firm, headquartered in London. The company also operates out of eight other offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel-Aviv, Madrid, Stockholm, Milan and Munich. The firm, including its various predecessors, have raised...
were considering bidding for the company. On June 17 talks with UBM ended because of the rapid rise in Informa's stock price after the public disclosure of the potential merger. On June 26 a private equity consortium consisting of Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners is a global private equity investment firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments...
, the Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...
and Hellman & Friedman
Hellman & Friedman
Hellman & Friedman is a private equity firm, founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman, that makes investments primarily through leveraged buyouts and minority growth capital investments....
proposed a takeover bid offering 506 pence per share.
On 1 May 2009 the company announced that it would be restructure its business so it was incorporated in Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
but tax resident in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
Operations
The company operates more than 10,000 conferencesMeeting
In a meeting, two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal setting.- Definitions :An act or process of coming together as an assembly for a common purpose....
annually, and publishes newsletters, academic journal
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
s, commercial databases, and academic and business books. Topics covered include arts and humanities through social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
to physical science
Physical science
Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science and science that study non-living systems, in contrast to the life sciences...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
; and finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
and the law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
through to telecommunications, maritime trade, energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
, biotech, commodities and agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
. Its online publishing portal Informaworld provides subscribers with more than half a million journal articles and 13,000 e-books from all its imprints. Besides publishing, the group has several other interests represented by the brands it owns in many countries. These brands (companies) work in the areas of performance improvement and management consulting. It has the following divisions:
Commercial
- Adam Smith Conferences
- Agra Informa
- Informa Maritime & Transport
- Lloyd’s MIU
- Lloyd's ListLloyd's ListLloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 59,200...
- Informa Telecoms & Media
- Euroforum
- IBC
- IIR
- IIR Executive Development
- Informa Economics
- Informa Australia
- Monaco Yacht ShowMonaco Yacht ShowThe Monaco Yacht Show is the world's yearly rendezvous of the superyachting industry, organised by Informa.Launched in 1991, the show is currently positioned as the world leader event in superyachting and presents 500 exhibitors amongst the key actors of the yachting and luxury sectors, and 100...
- Leaders in India Business Forum 2008
Professional
- AchieveGlobalAchieveGlobalAchieveGlobal, Inc. is a provider of learning-based solutions focused on skills training and consulting in leadership development, sales effectiveness, and customer service training....
- Council on Education
- DatamonitorDatamonitorDatamonitor is an international company providing market intelligence, data analysis and opinion via a worldwide network of in-house analysts. According to the organization's website in 2011, Datamonitor assists over 6000 of the world’s leading corporations in making strategic and operational...
- ESI InternationalESI InternationalESI International, Inc. is a provider of learning-based solutions focused on skills training and consulting in project management, program management, business analysis, business skills and contract management....
- ForumForum CorporationThe Forum Corporation is a global learning and development firm owned by Informa specializing in strategy execution for companies in a broad array of industries. Founded in 1971, the company established itself as a pioneer in the corporate training and education space...
- Health Insurance Magazine
- Huthwaite
- ICBI
- IFF
- IIR Finance
- iMoneyNet
- Informa Finance
- Informa Global Markets
- Informa Insurance
- Informa Law
- Informa Investment Solutions
- InformaDATA
- Informa Research ServicesInforma Research ServicesInforma Research Services is a United States–based market research company that primarily serves financial services organizations nationwide. Informa Research Services provides competitive intelligence, market research, mystery shopping, and compliance testing services to the financial industry...
- International Insider
- Omega Performance
- Robbins-Gioia