London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), the International Exhibitions, Events, Information Services and Advanced Learning Group, today announces that it has started a process to identify a successor for its current Chairman, Derek Mapp. This follows the continuing growth and expansion of Informa, including the successful acquisition and integration of UBM into the Group.
The succession process is being led by the Group's Senior Independent Director, on behalf of the Nominations Committee, with external advice being provided by Spencer Stuart. The new Chairman is expected to be in place by the end of 2020, following a suitable handover period.
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Informa is a leading international Exhibitions, Events, Information Services and Scholarly Publishing Group with annual revenues approaching £3 billion. It helps commercial, professional and academic communities work smarter and make better decisions faster, through specialist content and intelligence, and opportunities to connect and learn. For more information, please visit www.informa.com.
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Informa PLC specializes in organizing events and publishing books, documents and journals. The activity is organized around four sectors:
- organization of exhibitions;
- publishing of academic and scientific research contents: human and social sciences, technology, medicine, physical sciences, etc.;
- publishing of professional and commercial contents: sciences and health, finances, legal sciences, trading, transport, telecommunication, etc.;
- organization of conferences and professional training trade shows.
The group's contents are marketed in the form of publications on paper, electronic download, and CD-ROM.
Net sales break down by activity into sale of organization of events (36.3%), subscriptions (23.6%), sale of publications (14.9%), sale of advertising space (8.1%) and other (17.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (5.7%), Continental Europe (13.4%), North America (56%), China (4.4%) and other (20.5%).
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