Informa plc is the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and employs over 7,000 staff around the world.

Informa is the largest publicly-owned organiser of conferences and courses in the world with an output of over 10,000 events annually. Informa publishes over 2,000 subscription-based information services including academic journals, real-time news and structured databases of commercial intelligence. Informa's book business has more than 40,000 academic and business titles in print.

Informa's products are founded on high value content in a wide variety of subject areas. These range from the arts and humanities through social sciences to physical science and technology; from the professional domains of finance and the law through to commercial fields such as telecommunications, maritime trade, energy, commodities, and agriculture.

Informa is a major brand in its own right, but it also owns some of the world's biggest information brands, including Euroforum, IBC, ICBI, IIR, Routledge, Lloyd's List and Taylor & Francis, to name but a few.

Euroforum produces world-class events for transfering knowledge and exchanging views. Euroforum's conferences, seminars and annual conventions help inform high-level personnel about developments in their respective industries and provide a forum for them to exchange experiences.

As independent organizers, Euroforum engages proven experts from economics, science and politics, who bring to life news on the latest trends and offer current information for practical management. Additionally Euroforum provides fantastic value for money via our meeting documents (available in digital and printed formats). The interests and requirements of our attendees are put right at the heart of everything we do.

IBC Brands

IBC Conferences is a leading business information specialist. With over 30 years' of international expertise and an expanding network of offices spanning 12 countries and five continents, IBC is a highly regarded and preferred provider of quality business information in both emerging and established industry sectors. IBC has successfully established itself as a leader in the business intelligence and conference industry.

? telecommunications, media and information technology
? banking, finance & insurance
? pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals
? energy
? law, regulation, tax & accounting
? construction, property & environment
? maritime & transport

We provide this information via conferences, training courses, workshops, seminars, distance learning courses, in-house sessions and managed events for leading international companies and governments.

Lloyd's List was founded in 1734 and was the world's first newspaper. For the full story of its history click here .

Taylor & Francis is one of the leading academic publishers in the world, with substantial operations near Oxford in the UK , and in New York , Philadelphia and Florida in the USA . Over 1,000 journals and 40,000 books - published under the main imprints of Taylor & Francis and Routledge - present the latest thinking in subjects as diverse as Earth Science and Cultural Studies. Taylor & Francis also includes the imprints of Garland Science and Psychology Press .

In the Sciences, many of our textbooks are regarded as the standard reference works in their subject. The renowned Molecular Biology of the Cell has sold over a million copies in its four editions, while The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is continually updated to reflect the latest knowledge and data in its field. Our journals programme encompasses high-quality peer-reviewed articles from the world's top academics.

In the Humanities and Social Sciences our list is particularly strong in philosophy, media studies, education, Asian studies and behavioural science. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , the Media Student's Handbook and the leading textbook Cognitive Psychology are all indispensable titles in their fields.

About a quarter of our research publishing is in partnership with academic societies. The number of partnerships grows steadily year by year, with notable new relationships including the National Communication Association in the US , and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in the UK .

Online access is a consistent feature of our publishing. Journal articles are instantly available to subscribers around the world, and electronic reference-linking and subject-based alerting services ensure that researchers can immediately access the information they require.