Informa plc announces a Board update including the appointment of two new Non-Executive Directors and confirms new Board responsibilities, including Chair-Elect of the Remuneration Committee. Joanne Wilson joins the Informa Board as a Non-Executive Director, bringing extensive financial and operational experience to the Group from her position as the Chief Financial Officer of Britvic PLC and through a range of previous roles at Tesco plc, including Chief Financial Officer of dunnhumby Ltd, Head of M&A and Commercial Director of Health & Beauty. Louise Smalley joins Informa as a Non-Executive Director, bringing extensive knowledge in talent development and management, and remuneration and reward. Louise most recently served as Group HR Director at Whitbread plc, which followed a number of other senior executive roles within Whitbread and at PepsiCo, Esso and BP plc. Ms Smalley will become Chair-Elect of Informa's Remuneration Committee, with responsibility for leading the consultation on Informa's forward new remuneration policy. On appointment, Ms Smalley will also join the Nomination Committee, whilst Ms Wilson will become a member of the Audit and Nomination Committee.
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%).