Just because it’s big doesn’t mean it’s going to get noticed. Informa is a heavyweight beast of the FTSE 100 that weighs in with a market value of £10 billion, but its activities — even multibillion-pound takeovers — seem to slip under the radar among so much other hubbub.
It’s not even that it’s a boring company: its portfolio of businesses includes such august names as Routledge, the academic publisher, Lloyd’s List, the bible of the shipping world, and Datamonitor, the market and data research company.
We might leave aside that it also includes exhibitions and events including World of Concrete, but suffice it to say that its markets — of events, exhibitions, specialist publishing and data, all with an increasing bent towards technology —