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Informa - Shares recover after Iraq war ends

July 2003

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Business publisher and conference group, Informa, has enjoyed a terrific re-rating over the past four months, with the shares almost doubling as war worries have faded.   The group owns aformidable portfolio of market leading titles across six industrysectors: finance & insurance (27% of sales), telecoms & media(19%), maritime & transport (17%), law & tax (16%),commodities & energy (11%) and life sciences (10%).  Thisdiversification has helped Informa ride through the savage downturn inthe telecoms industry and against the odds the group maintained its2002 pretax profit before exceptional items of £30.1m at the samelevel as the previous year.  This achievement was largely due tothe elim ...

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