Informa owns numerous brands including Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, CRC Press, Fan Expo, Game Developers Conference, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and VidCon.

[4][5] In October 2006, the company was approached by Springer Science and Business Media in a takeover bid,[6] but in early November the Informa board rejected the 630p per share offer as too low.

Informa explained Rigby's move by the need to maintain management stability, although it generated some controversy because it did not follow the advice of the UK's Combined Code on Corporate Governance.

[18] Also in 2013, Informa acquired the Canadian company Hobby Star Marketing, who ran the Fan Expo Canada and Toronto Comicon comic book conventions.

The EBI assets combined with Scrip, Datamonitor and several other publications formed the newly created Pharma Intelligence division of Informa Business Information.

[30] Also in 2019, Informa sold the former Penton design & engineering, manufacturing, energy, buildings, and commercial vehicle divisions, and the former UBM Automotive, to Endeavor Business Media.

[31] In February 2020, Informa launched Omdia by consolidating its portfolio of market analyst companies, Ovum Ltd, Heavy Reading, Tractica, and the majority of IHS Markit's technology, media and telecommunications research business, into a unified brand.

[34] In March 2023, in a cash and shares deal, Informa acquired the Irish Tarsus Group from Charterhouse Capital Partners for a reported GBP 790m.

[45] Informa owns numerous brands including CRC Press, Fan Expo HQ, Game Developers Conference, Routledge, Taylor & Francis and VidCon.