2015 Informa Sustainability Report

SUSTAINABILITY REPORT INFORMA AT A GLANCE INFORMA OFFICE LOCATIONS //Informa is a leading business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events business, operating in the Knowledge and Information Economy.// Our products and services provide ACADEMIC BUSINESS knowledge, intelligence, insight, analysis, connections and networking, creating PUBLISHING INTELLIGENCE advantage for customers across the world in many different industries, from Life Sciences to Finance, Beauty, 1,860 1,890 Education, Agriculture and Telecoms, NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES Media and Technology. We are organised around four Operating Divisions, each owning a portfolio of leading brands. We also have a fifth Division, Global Support, 170 NUMBER OF 145 NUMBER OF which is the team behind the teams, COUNTRIES SOLD INTO COUNTRIES SOLD INTO comprising a central group of experts in specialist functions including Finance, Tax & Treasury, Technology and Academic Publishing produces Business Intelligence provides Intellectual Property. specialist upper level books and journals specialist data-driven intelligence in Humanities & Social Sciences, and and insight to professionals in niche Science, Technology & Medicine. communities. It has over 100 digital It operates as Taylor & Francis (T&F) subscription products including Lloyd’s with other imprints including Routledge, List, Citeline, Scrip and Ovum, catering CRC Press, Garland Science and to five vertical markets. Cogent OA. 2 INFORMA PLC SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2015 www.informa.com GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE GLOBAL EXHIBITIONS & NETWORKING SUPPORT 790 1,390 650 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES Global Support is the team behind the teams: a central, global team of experts NUMBER OF COUNTRIES NUMBER OF COUNTRIES 40 75 from different specialist functions. WHERE EVENTS ARE HELD WHERE EVENTS ARE HELD It provides business services to Informa’s four Operating Divisions and the leadership and structure Global Exhibitions connects groups Knowledge & Networking creates that supports the Group’s overall seeking to develop commercial and connects communities based on performance and progress. relationships and expand their business. the sharing of insights and learning. It organises transaction-oriented Its events, including SuperReturn, Exhibitions, including Arab Health, World Bio-Europe, the Internet of Things of Concrete and Vitafoods Europe, and Broadband World Series, help enabling specialist communities to meet professionals meet, network and share face-to-face and conduct business. knowledge. www.informa.com INFORMA PLC SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2015 3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION FROM THE CEO 5 FOREWORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF INVESTOR RELATIONS, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS & BRAND 6 2015 HIGHLIGHTS 7 PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW 8 OUR CONTENT 9 OUR PEOPLE 12 OUR ENVIRONMENT 14 OUR COMMUNITY 16 REVIEW SUMMARY 18 SUSTAINABILITY AT INFORMA 19 The 501st Legion’s Stormtroopers at Informa’s FAN EXPO CANADA™ Exhibition in Toronto 4 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CEO //We need to proactively support increased accessibility to information and knowledge, championing innovation, trust and openness whilst maintaining our own uniqueness.// here is much talk today of part of Informa to growth, enhance ● We need to bring new focus to how the purpose of business. At operational efficiency and seize we embrace diversity and inclusion. Informa, our purpose is simple new market opportunities. We have Increasingly, access to human capital T really: we are in the business managed to invest at scale in our own and our ability to get the most from of producing, managing and distributing business whilst meeting our commercial it is business critical. Whatever the critical knowledge and information to help performance targets. Building on cultural, social or ethnic background, individuals, organisations and societies this strong foundation, it is becoming we aim to give existing and future connect, become smarter and make increasingly clear that 2016 will be a colleagues the freedom and better decisions. year of Disciplined Delivery. environment they need to succeed with us; Every person, and certainly every parent, To deliver on our promises, in 2016 wants the next generation and their and beyond, we will have to build ● We need to keep a mindful eye on children to do better than them, and often deeper capabilities around talent, data our footprint in the world. No business the definition of better is smarter. Be and technology, as well as our ability can afford to ignore its environmental more knowledgeable, have more insight, to operate effectively in international impacts. We are certainly no exception. become experts in something they are markets as we approach a scenario This Sustainability Report reflects the passionate about. Whether in business, where less than 10% of our revenue progress we achieved, and indeed the academia, government or at home, will come from our traditional home challenges we faced in progressing the drive and desire to acquire more market in the UK. The Group’s strategy this strategy during 2015. It sets out knowledge and more information will only and ambition for Sustainability around our current position against these ever go one way, and that is up. In that the world is an integral part of this. three imperatives, and our ambitions sense, there are few markets like ours; Specifically, I see three key areas of for the future. We know it can take not only is the potential demand virtually focus: several years to achieve meaningful infinite, but growth in our business ● In the knowledge area, we need improvements but we very much reflects social and human development. to proactively support increased welcome the challenge. Informa made good progress in 2015. accessibility to information and It marked the second year of the knowledge, championing innovation, 2014-2017 Growth Acceleration Plan, integrity and openness whilst STEPHEN A. CARTER an ambitious programme to return every maintaining our own uniqueness; GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE www.informa.com INFORMA PLC SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2015 5 FOREWORD FROM THE DIRECTOR OF INVESTOR RELATIONS, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS & BRAND //2016 will see us taking advantage of the new operating structure, engaging colleagues around themes that are relevant locally but applicable globally.// s we enter 2016, had before. Just a few years ago, together, cementing what Informa is Sustainability sits Informa consisted of more than twenty and what we stand for across business prominently at Informa within business units, each with its own CEO areas and geographies. But also, and A an integrated unit overseeing and management team. Today, we more importantly perhaps, we are now four pillars of activity that also includes have a much simpler operating model in a position to deliver much more Investor Relations, Communications and consisting of four Operating Divisions impactful Sustainability programmes, Branding. Being organised in this way, and a fifth central Division, Global focused on our core skills and priorities. we are able to drive Sustainability using Support. Each has its own line of 2016 will see us taking advantage of the rigour that we apply to commercial authority and Executive team. Through the new operating structure, engaging decisions combined with the power the 2014-2017 Growth Acceleration colleagues around themes that are of clear, persuasive communications. Plan (GAP), in recent years we have relevant locally but applicable globally. Over the past couple of years, we have invested in simplifying our structure, It is not all about the future though. made new appointments, clarified adding capability and building scale in I was pleased with our progress this responsibilities and established core areas of excellence. When GAP year, particularly in the following areas: synergies in how we go about setting completes in 2017, we will have spent and delivering our strategy. I would around £90m in 30-40 different work ● Our approach to health and safety like to think that many more people, streams across all five Divisions. These (H&S) at large-scale events was internally and externally, now have an investments are in a mixture of people, overhauled and simplified, ensuring understanding of who Informa is and products, processes and platforms, that all our exhibitions apply the same what we are trying to achieve. setting us up to deliver value, with high standards, be it at Arab Health in values, over the long term. Dubai or Internet of Things World in For the business in general and Silicon Valley; Sustainability specifically, there is a Within this changing landscape, not simplicity and a coherence around only do I consider Sustainability a ● Becoming an inclusive employer: the structure that we simply have not mechanism to help bring the Group We have set out a blueprint to give us better access to talent from all backgrounds by refreshing our recruitment practices and collecting the right data; and ● Our innovation and capabilities in relation to open access (OA): the number of articles we published under OA schemes doubled and we have ambitious plans for the future, including an OA acceleration programme and launching a new publishing platform. As always, I trust and hope you enjoy reading this report to learn about what kept us busy in 2015 and what our plans are for the future. Please do get in touch with myself and the Sustainability Team if you have any thoughts, suggestions or comments. RICHARD MENZIES-GOW DIRECTOR OF INVESTOR RELATIONS, CORPORATE

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