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Informa's leading brands provide expert knowledge and relevant connections to businesses and professionals working in one of over a dozen specialist markets.

Whether it's through high-quality digital media and content, must-have intelligence and analytics, must-attend in-person and virtual events, engaging online communities and marketplaces, data-driven marketing services, effective networking and partnering platforms or advanced peer review research, we help businesses and professionals learn more about the latest developments in their area, know more about their customers, peers and competition, and do more, making connections and taking decisions that allow them grow, progress and succeed. 

We are organised into five operating divisions, each with a distinct focus. Learn more about the brands, products and services we provide below, or read about the purpose and guiding principles that underpin our business.

  • Informa Connect
  • Informa Intelligence
  • Informa Markets
  • Informa Tech
  • Taylor & Francis

In a world where sources of information and the number of digital channels are proliferating, businesses and professionals come to Informa Connect for relevant, high-quality knowledge and connections that help them learn more and do more.

Through specialist content and connections, delivered via in-person events, virtual events and digital platforms, Informa Connect's brands provide the latest thinking and ways to meet experts, peers and stay connected within a community.

We invest in creating exciting experiences based on high-quality speakers, stimulating content and platforms that enable discussion and networking. Our digital services provide year-round community content and connections and give sponsors and marketers effective ways to reach the right customers. Our brands are continuously developed to ensure they deliver a quantifiable return to audiences, sponsors and speakers. 


£125m
2020 revenue
800+
colleagues
15,000+
partnering meetings held at BIO-Europe Digital 2020
20+ years
SuperReturn brand established over 20 years ago

Specialist Brands and Markets

Informa Connect serves businesses and professionals working in Biotech and Pharma, in Finance and in a number of other specialist markets including Marketing, Food & Hospitality, Energy and Pop Culture.

Many are renowned as the leading brands for their markets, including BIO-Europe, Biotech Showcase and TIDES in Biotech and Pharma; SuperReturn, FundForum and Inside ETFs in Finance; TMRE and Content Marketing World in Marketing and the FAN EXPO portfolio, one of the largest producers of pop culture events in North America.



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In every specialist market, businesses rely on relevant, high-quality data and insight to make informed decisions, spot opportunities and gain competitive advantage.

Informa Intelligence provides critical data and subscription intelligence services to over 25,000 businesses worldwide who want to know more and do more in their markets.

We continually invest in our products, data sets and analytical capabilities, and in the platforms and technology that deliver them, ensuring they are as relevant, useful and powerful for customers as possible.


£300m
2020 revenue
550+
analysts and editors
25,000
companies subscribe to our products
300 years
of historical Lloyd's List maritime data

Specialist Informa Intelligence Brands and Markets

Informa Intelligence operates in four main markets, with over 100 product brands that serve customers in specialist communities, including

  • In Pharma, where our brands include the world’s top sources for intelligence on clinical trials
  • In Finance, where we work in sectors including consumer retail banking and asset and wealth management
  • In Maritime, where we provide trusted global shipping data to the maritime industry through Lloyd's List
  • In the Asset Intelligence market, we provide pricing data and information on heavy equipment, commercial vehicles and other infrastructure assets

Citeline
EPFR
Barbour ABI

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Markets and industries flourish when the right people - buyers, sellers, decision makers - can research trends, discover and showcase the latest products, generate leads, meet new customers and suppliers and do business.

Informa Markets connects buyers and sellers, helping them innovate and trade and supporting the flow of business in over a dozen specialist international markets. 

Informa Markets' brands deliver large-scale exhibitions, virtual events, digital marketplaces and specialist content and data services. Many of our in-person and virtual events are long-established and have become not-to-be-missed annual gatherings, located in major hubs and on major trade routes, where buyers and sellers build relationships, see and show products and do business. We have a significant presence in Asia, and China in particular, as well as in the US and the Middle East.  


£525m
2020 revenue
3,500+
colleagues
No.1
world's leading exhibition organiser
30+ years
CPhI brand established over 30 years ago

Specialist Informa Markets Brands and Markets

Informa Markets operates hundreds of major brands in over a dozen specialist markets, worldwide, including:

  • In Healthcare & Pharma, Arab Health, CPhI and FIME
  • In Health & Nutrition, Natural Products Expo, Spark Change, New Hope, SupplySide, Food Ingredients and Vitafoods Europe
  • In Beauty & Aesthetics, China Beauty Expo, Cosmoprof and Aesthetic and Anti-aging Medicine World Congress
  • In Aviation, Aviation Week, Routes and CAPA
  • In Infrastructure, Construction & Real Estate, World of Concrete and Cityscape
  • In Fashion, MAGIC and CBME China


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Informa Tech aims to inspire the global technology community to design, build and run a better digital world. 

Through specialist research and consultancy, must-attend events, festivals and training, high quality digital media and effective marketing services, we help tech businesses and professionals who want to apply the latest technology in their roles to connect, learn more and do more.

Informa Tech is a market-led business, housing of Informa's brands that deliver services to technology communities and specialists. We have leading and trusted brands and a wide, international reach among our audiences. Informa Tech works in some of the most exciting specialist markets within technology, from Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things to Cybersecurity, Enterprise Tech and Media & Entertainment.  


£150m
2020 revenue
850
colleagues
14,000
subscribers to our research
20+ years
Black Hat brand established over 20 years ago

Specialist Informa Tech Brands and Markets

Informa Tech has many leading brands in specialist areas of the technology market, including:

  • In Artificial Intelligence and IoT, AI Summit and Internet of Things World 
  • In Cybersecurity, Black Hat and Dark Reading
  • In Media & Entertainment, GDC and Gamasutra
  • In Enterprise IT, Enterprise Connect and InformationWeek 
  • For Service Providers, Light Reading and 5G World
  • Plus Research by Omdia and Festivals including London Tech Week and Africa Tech Festival 

 



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Behind every scientific discovery, advance in clinical treatment, progress in understanding in a field of study and most new commercial products lies a body of research.

Taylor & Francis commissions, curates, produces and publishes high-quality peer-reviewed scholarly research, connecting specialists with knowledge that helps them learn more, and helps advance progress in their fields of study, sectors and broader society.

We have a significant depth of specialist content, with research spanning authorship from the 1700s to the very latest discoveries. We invest in technology that makes current and historical content discoverable and usable digitally, oversee the submission, assessment, independent review and production process for research content, maintain and promote scholarly brands and work closely with authors, editors and researchers from all over the world to support their work and careers.


£550m
2020 revenue
2,000
colleagues
4.5m
articles published on T&F Online
200+ years
depth of scholarly research, dating back centuries

Specialist Taylor & Francis Brands and Categories

Taylor & Francis operates through highly regarded imprints including Routledge, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Cogent OA and Dove Medical Press, as well as the F1000 open research platform.

We serve dozens of specialist market categories across the Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine, including areas such as Archaeology, Psychology and Education, and in the Biomedical, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering fields. 



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