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Informa Group PLC
http://group.informa.com/
Informa Group PLC Head Office
Mortimer House
37-41 Mortimer Street
London
W1T 3JH
UNITED KINGDOM
Relevant Market Sectors
Maritime Trade and Transport
Telecoms and Media

Taylor & Francis eBookstore http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/index.asp

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical
Law and Tax
Energy and Commodities
Finance and Insurance

Since the merger in 1998 of IBC and LLP, Informa has been developing a leading international professional and business information group delivering high value, specialist information through a wide range of media. Informa has developed market-leading positions in most of the specialist niche markets in which it operates. Informa has exploited the benefits of its strong brands in publishing and events to maximise revenue opportunities across six international market sectors and its target customer base of business practitioners and professionals. As an international market leader in event organisation, Informa has developed event businesses across a wide number of markets and geographies, as well as utilising well-known branded publications such as Lloyd's List to create events. It has also developed publications such as Bioprocess International by leveraging off its leading event brands. Informa has also made a number of complementary acquisitions, principally subscription based publishing businesses such as MCM, MMS, Biotechniques and PJB, and has built and is continuing to build additional revenue opportunities from these acquisitions by disseminating high value content in a range of new media formats.

Since its flotation in 1998, Taylor & Francis has shown consistent growth, driven both organically and through strategic acquisitions. In November 1998, Taylor & Francis acquired Routledge to develop significantly its books business alongside an already strong journals division. Taylor & Francis has continued to enhance the group's consistent organic growth with bolt-on acquisitions to both divisions. More recently, Taylor & Francis has further developed its North America-based business with the acquisitions of the CRC Press Group of companies (Florida-based academic, scientific and professional publisher) in April 2003 and Marcel Dekker (Florida-based science and pharmaceutical publisher) in January 2004. Following the integration of these two businesses with the existing North American activities, Taylor & Francis will have established a major strategic presence in the world's largest publishing market. In addition, Taylor & Francis has continued to build on its strong European presence through a number of company and asset portfolio acquisitions including Bios (UK - January 2003), Frank Cass (UK - July 2003) and Swets & Zeitlinger (Netherlands - November 2003).

The Merger of Informa and Taylor & Francis represents a logical continuation of the strategies of the two companies and will create a new international force in the provision of specialist information through T&F Informa's publishing, events and data businesses.

Informa and Taylor & Francis have common processes across their business operations which will enable T&F Informa to generate scale benefits. These processes include content origination; print, design and production; fulfilment, electronic delivery and customer service; marketing databases and direct mail; and warehousing and distribution. Furthermore, the two groups have a shared focus and culture. Both are research-led organisations providing niche information to specialist communities and are focused on market leading brands.

T&F Informa will be a leading provider of high value specialist information to Informa and Taylor & Francis' overlapping academic, scientific, professional and commercial customer communities. Its geographic, customer and product presence and enhanced financial strength will enable it to drive both organic and acquisition-led growth.

Enhanced revenue opportunities

T&F Informa will target the existing complementary customer bases of Informa and Taylor & Francis and will utilise the expertise of each business in its media delivery formats to drive new products and brand extensions across all its markets. This should enable T&F Informa to generate attractive revenue synergies:

     T&F Informa will link researchers, practitioners and service providers across publication and event formats such as the 3GSM World Congress and mobile telecoms community;

     T&F Informa will use Informa's expertise to introduce branded meetings, training and learning products to Taylor & Francis' existing customers previously serviced only by books and journals. Similarly, T&F Informa will leverage Taylor & Francis' publishing capabilities to intensify publication output to certain key markets such as the legal, insurance and commodity markets using Taylor & Francis' book and journal engine;

     T&F Informa will drive advertising, sponsorship and exhibition revenue opportunities in Taylor & Francis' science, technical and medical niches; and - T&F Informa will widen the distribution of existing product to relevant audiences at minimal further cost such as by exploiting Informa's 800,000 name Life Sciences database and by physically showcasing Taylor & Francis' publications at Informa conferences.

     T&F Informa will be able to broaden and deepen its combined product portfolio supported by the combination of the two businesses' worldwide networks of staff, customer and marketing databases, expert authors, editors, contributors and conference speakers.

Cross-over demand for information

There is cross-over demand for information in the academic, scientific, professional and commercial communities. The application of scientific and technical research is being utilised by the professional and commercial markets and this will enable T&F Informa to leverage its expertise across these markets.

Information on Informa

Informa originates and supplies high value business and professional information to niches within six major international markets using a range of media formats. The major markets are finance &insurance, life sciences, telecommunications & media, law & tax, maritime trade & transport and commodities & energy. The information is delivered in a wide range of formats, both traditional and electronic. Among the delivery formats used are newspapers, electronic online services (including internet delivery), magazines, journals, newsletters, books, conferences, courses and exhibitions. Informa produces more than 1,500 publishing products and services and 2,800 conferences. The publishing products are sold to more than 80,000 subscribers annually and more than 100,000 paying delegates attend the conferences annually. There is a high level of repeat business across subscribers, publications and events. Informa products and services are sold in 180 countries from abase of 49 offices in 18 countries covering the UK, Continental Europe, North and South America, Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Information on Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis is a leading international group of companies publishing specialist academic, scientific and professional information via hardcopy and electronic journals, books and newsletters. Taylor & Francis' current portfolio includes over 1,000 journals and a book backlist in excess of 35,000 titles. Each year, Taylor & Francis publishes over 20 new journals and circa 2,700 new books. The group's publications supply the academic and industrial research, undergraduate, post-graduate and professional markets. Publications cover a range of subjects including: bioscience, business and management, construction, education, engineering, the environment, humanities, medicine and healthcare, physical sciences, psychology, reference and social and political science. Publications are available in paper based and electronic formats. The group has a significant presence in the major international markets of the UK, Continental Europe and North America.