Corporate Responsibility

"The best companies to work for are responsible ones."

The best companies to work for are responsible ones. It is important to our Staff, Customers and Shareholders that we always act with integrity and are conscious of how we can make a positive difference to the environment and the communities in which we work.

Our staff are key to our success and it is important that they feel proud to work for Informa, are provided with development opportunities and are able to grow their careers with us.

CR is not just about charitable activity, it goes much further than that. CR at Informa is about constantly reviewing and improving our business processes, ensuring that we only partner with companies who hold the same high standards as ourselves, promoting best practice through our products and ensuring that we are known as an innovative and forward thinking company.

Emma Blaney, Director of Corporate Responsibility

Why do we do CR at Informa?

Well, there are lots of reasons. One of the most important is that our staff have shown they care about this, and we want Informa, first and foremost, to be a company where people share the same values and are excited to be a part of.

How we do business is obviously also of interest to our key business partners, our customers and investors, so it’s a key part of our brand that we need to communicate to the outside world.

And, finally, the CR agenda is also having an increasing impact on specific areas of our business, so is influencing our content and encouraging us to be more innovative in our business processes.

Peter Rigby, CEO, Informa Plc

How we structure CR

Informa Group is a collection of well known but distinct business brands and our CR structure reflects this. Each of our MDs or CEOs has appointed a CR Representative for their business. We now have a set of 23 CR Representatives globally whose role it is to work closely with their MD or CEO to develop an approach to CR that makes sense for their business. By doing this we hope to ensure that each area of our diverse business portfolio has identified, and is managing, the key issues for them.

At Group-level, we have a CR function to be able to provide guidance for the Group as a whole and encourage the sharing of best practice in areas where our businesses overlap. We have created a set of KPIs that will help us to meet our overall CR objectives. We expect each of our businesses to report against these annually as well as set their own CR targets and objectives to sit alongside those KPIs.

We have also created three tests that are designed to guide our businesses in identifying the key CR issues for their businesses. These three tests are:

1. Saving Money;

2. Motivating Staff; or

3. Building Brand.