Statement re Investment

Informa Group PLC 8 March 2002 Friday 8 March INFORMA GROUP INVESTS IN XINHUA FINANCIAL NETWORK Informa Group has made an investment in Xinhua Financial Network (XFN). XFN is a financial news service based in Hong Kong with additional offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The majority shareholder in XFN is the main Chinese Government News Agency - Xinhua News Agency. XFN provides financial information about China to foreign companies based outside China and to Domestic and International companies operating in China. XFN offers a number of services, the main ones of which are Financial indices, credit ratings, company news and equity information. Informa already provides a service on XFN called China Watch - a Bond information service which is already proving successful. It is intended that following the investment, Informa will provide further products and also become the official Conference arm of XFN using the Xihnua brand where appropriate. Informa has been operating in China for some years now. This provides an excellent opportunity for the Group to take advantage of China's increased information needs following accession to the WTO alongside a respected local partner. For further information Peter Rigby, David Gilbertson, Jim Wilkinson Informa Group 0207 017 4302 Fiona Piper The Maitland Consultancy 0207 379 5151 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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