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Informa PLC

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Informa agrees to buy Cannes Lions owner Ascential for almost £1.2bn

    Boards of both companies reach agreement following several approaches by Informa in recent months

    People speaking on stage at the session
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Informa strikes AI deal with Microsoft

    Exhibitions group nudges up guidance and raises buyback after bounce back in events

    An Informa expo
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Informa employee snubbed Israeli tech firm citing company policy

    The FTSE 100 company is the latest to have to manage tensions since the Israel-Hamas war began

    Person holding cellphone with logo of British publishing company Informa
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    News in-depthMedia
    The unexpected return of the business of corporate events

    Visitors’ eagerness defies pessimistic expectations of industry’s post-pandemic retreat

    Attendees dressed as the Riddler pose during New York Comic Con 2022
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Lex
    Informa: corporate schmoozing returns with a vengeance Premium content

    Investors should stick around for more networking events

    Visitors at Monaco Yacht Show in 2021
  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Informa warns business events in China won’t recover until 2024

    Exhibition group records 33% rise in revenues and announces acquisition of rival Tarsus for $940mn

    Delegates at Informa’s Africacom telecoms conference in Cape Town in 2012
  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Informa raises forecasts after strong return to in-person events

    Shares in exhibition group rise as business travel recovers in US and despite strict pandemic restrictions in China

    Exhibits at the Miami Boat Show
  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Informa investors stage biggest pay report rebellion in a decade

    More than 70% of events group shareholders vote against 2021 remuneration but back new pay policy

    Lord Stephen Carter, chief executive of Informa
  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Informa shrugs off fresh China lockdowns as it returns to profit

    World’s largest exhibitions company says it can weather fresh disruption following tumultuous period for industry

    Informa chief executive Stephen Carter
  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    Informa sells Pharma Intelligence to Warburg Pincus for £1.9bn

    Disposal comes two months after UK company first announced plan to offload intelligence unit

    A person holds a smartphone with the logo of British publishing company Informa
  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Lloyd’s List to chart new course as Informa hoists ‘for sale’ sign

    Disposal of 287-year-old shipping publication part of wider shake-up at FTSE 100 events and media group

    A 1923 advertisement about Lloyd’s List
  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
    Las Vegas betting on trade shows to inspire revival

    Conferences return to the city’s convention centre as vaccinations revive $11.5bn business

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    Informa shareholders revolt over executive pay

    Events group has been criticised over a new bonus scheme with no targets and a lack of investor engagement

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    Informa facing shareholder revolt over target-free bonus scheme

    Legal and General Investment Management says it will vote against pay report at world’s largest events group

  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
    Informa swings to £1.1bn pre-tax loss after events cancelled in pandemic

    World’s biggest exhibitions organiser expecting fewer attendees when US events restart this summer

    Visitors at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in February. Large-scale events have returned in China but the bounce back elsewhere is expected to be slow
  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Lex
    Informa/business events: yesterday’s schmooze Premium content

    The hustle, bustle and deals at a physical trade show are difficult to replicate digitally

  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Informa forecasts conferences will return in June

    World’s biggest events organiser reported sharp profit fall but expressed optimism

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Informa postpones events and cuts revenue forecast

    FTSE 100 group says pandemic toll ‘more volatile and far-reaching’ than anticipated

    A social distancing sign, reminding shoppers to keep two metres apart, stands outside the John Lewis department store in Oxford Street, London
  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    Informa to resume trade fairs but warns of revenue drop

    Exhibitions operator will hold first post-lockdown major event in China next month

    Informa expects the pace of recovery in markets to be ‘gradual and phased’
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    EasyJet makes the best out of summertime blues

    Low-cost airline’s living looks relatively easy; Informa turns to Covid-19 playbook

    EasyJet has conserved as much cash as it can
  • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
    Informa looks to raise up to £1bn in share placement

    Emergency fundraising comes as coronavirus pandemic grinds events business to a halt 

    The ExCel centre in London, which would normally play host to the kind of trade fairs organised by Informa, has been transformed into an emergency hospital
  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
    LexUK companies
    Informa/coronavirus: conference call Premium content

    Group shares have fallen 30 per cent so far this year

  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
    Informa to postpone or scrap events worth £450m over coronavirus 

    Shares drop by almost a quarter in three weeks and chief warns of revenue hit

    A near-empty terminal at John F Kennedy International Airport. Business travel has tumbled due to the spreading coronavirus, forcing the cancellation of events
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Informa sales climb after £4bn UBM takeover
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2018
    LombardCompanies By Region
    Informa’s £4bn bid for UBM exhibits scope to save more money

    The market is starting to see the tie-up as a marriage made in heaven

    UBM
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