Informa plc is a leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has some 150 offices in over 40 countries and employs approximately 8,000 staff around the world. We are an integrated portfolio of businesses, founded on the creation and sale of high value proprietorial information for niche markets through global delivery of a variety formats.

Our portfolio of products are described within our three operating divisions:

Academic Information

Operating from a network of 20 global offices the Academic Information division publishes both peer reviewed journals and books to the academic markets in electronic and hard copy formats, principally for the academic market.

Professional and Commercial Information

Consisting of a number of brands serving primarily the corporate markets globally including Datamonitor, Scrip, Informa Global Markets and the well known daily newspaper Lloyd’s List. Transition to digitial publishing within all of our markets has been critical to the success of these businesses, both financially and for customer acquisition.

Events

Informa’s is the single largest event provider in the world. Exhibitions and large scale conferences remain the key strategic focus for the business with events such as Arab Health, the Monoco Yacht show and the Super Return series just a snapshot of the highly successful portfolio. Overall Informa delivers over 8000 events, exhibitions, conferences and training courses, annually.

Our overall strategy is to build, maintain and develop a range of product and service formats designed to capture growth quickly during periods of positive conditions in cyclical markets while also demonstrating superior defensive qualities.

Informa has excellent cash flow properties and high visibility of earnings. Annually we convert more than 100% of operating profit to cash.

Interim H1 Results 2010

Informa PLC announced its 2010 interim results for the year to the 30th June 2010 on 27^th July 2010. Presentations were made by Peter Rigby, Chief Executive and Adam Walker, Finance Director.

 View the recorded Webcast from July 27 2010 

Read the (Interim 2010 press release)

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