Chairman's Statement

Informa Group PLC
23 May 2000


INFORMA GROUP PLC

AGM - 23 May 2000

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT


I  am  very pleased that you have all found the time to come
to our AGM.

My  colleagues  and I were delighted with our results  for
last year.    The  organic  profit  growth  of  17%  and
the  margin improvement help demonstrate the success of the
merger.

We  believe  this  is only the beginning and  expect  to
unlock further  benefits  over the next few years.   In
addition,  the acquisitions  of  titles  from  EMAP,
Pearson  and  Baskerville towards  the  end of 1999 are
proving to be good  ones  and  are contributing as we had
hoped to performance in the current year.

This year has stared encouragingly in many areas of our
business both in terms of market sector and geography.  In
particular our Telecoms and Media results are very strong,
assisted by the  GSM World  Congress in February which was
our most successful  event ever.   At  this  stage our
results are ahead of the  comparable period last year and
our prospects for the remainder of the year are good.

I  would  like to thank all of my colleagues throughout
Informa for  working so hard to get us into this position
and  also  our shareholders and advisers for their continued
support.

Peter Rigby
Chairman


Enquiries:

Peter Rigby
The Informa Group plc
020 7453 2222

Lydia Stewart
The Maitland Consultancy
020 7379 5151