Management at Informa are reviewing its businesses as it considers ways to reduce its debt to below £1bn. It is most likely that some businesses will be sold, which may include Informa's performance improvement arm. The training business, which operates mainly in the US, has a value of £202m. Informa's half-year results in July, recorded its net debt at £1.22bn.
Informa has so much debt partly due to its £500m purchase of Datamonitor in 2007. In September this year, Informa rejected a £1.9bn bid from a private equity syndicate that included the US firms Blackstone and Carlyle.
