Roger Horton CEO Taylor & Francis
2 Academic Information Division
Overview of the AI division – books and journals
Characteristics of the AI Book Business
Profile of the Book Business
Digital and e-Books
Summary
Questions
3 Academic Information Division
Revenues of £324m in 2011 (£153m books), Adj OP margin of 36%
Formed in 1798, floated 1998, merged with Informa in 2004
Employ over 1,400 people
Centres in UK, USA, Singapore, India, China, Australia and Europe
Built through organic growth and fully integrated acquisitions
Focused on resilient and growing niches OP
4 Specialist Academic Information
Target markets - university libraries, under/post graduate students, researchers and professionals
Shift from print to electronic delivery 100% journals online, e-book revenues 12% from zero in 10 years
Digital excellence, geographic expansion and high value/margin specialism
Quality specialist content provider
Books and journal businesses thrive on co-existence
Top Humanities and Social Science Academic publisher with STM strengths
Global focus, global reach
5 Academic Information
1,600+ subscription based journals
3,500+ new book titles p.a.
60,000+ titles in books back list
Revenues by Type Revenues by Sector Revenues by Geography
6 The Global AI Business Turnover £m and growth Turnover £m 350 4.5% Books 5% 20% 300 Journals Total
14% 250 13% % Growth 200 5% 29% 8% 3% 4% 150 13% 9% 10% 20% 18% 100
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0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
7 Senior Management Team
Roger Horton CEO
Emmett Jeremy Ian Kevin Dages North Bannerman Bradley President Managing Managing President US Director Director UK US Books HSS Books Journals Journals
Christoph Stuart Chesher Dawson Group COO Sales Director
8 Competing Publishers
Publisher Student Research Professional HSS STM Books Journals Learning & Ref Crossover Taylor & Francis (AI) Wiley/Blackwell Springer OUP Sage Elsevier McGraw-Hill Pearson Cengage
AI - wide reach across fragmented market AI - balanced, specialist, content levels AI - quality books and journal content by subject, format and delivery
9 The Books Business
10 AI Books - Resilient
Publish through the knowledge chain
Content quality is king – print, e-books, online are merely the delivery tools
Depth, scale and price setting
Education resilient through the cycle - seasonal not cyclical
Renewable and repeatable revenue streams
Global not local
11 Books – Core Strengths
Market leading brands in humanities, social science, science and technology
Global reach and infrastructure
Digital strategy and production innovation
Deep back catalogue consistently providing 70% of annual book revenue
Strong control of copyright, margins and pricing
Long standing, strong management team
12 Books Revenue by Geography
24%
UK 51% 8% Europe Rest of World 17% North America
13 Book Revenue Growth by Key ROW Territory
35.0% 32.0%
30.0%
25.0%
20.0% 15.0% 14.0% 15.0% 10.0% 8.0% 2011 Growth Rate Growth 2011 10.0%
5.0%
0.0% Japan India Singapore Middle East China Market territory
14 Acquisition Strategy
Bolt-on Strategic Effective way of commissioning new Strengthening of position in key subjects publishing or levels
For example: Including:
• Kogan Page Education (2003) • Routledge (1998) • David Fulton (2006) • CRC Press (2003) • Productivity Press (2007) • Garland Science (1997) • Architecture Press (2011) • Earthscan (2011)
Value created by full integration, creation of scale and close management
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