The document provides an agenda and overview of Emerald's publishing strategy and product developments. It discusses Emerald's new branding and websites launched for its 50th anniversary. It highlights increases in Emerald journals' impact factors and CiteScore metrics. Emerald will acquire 8 new journals in 2017 and add 5 ebooks to its Transport collection. It will offer backfile collections and extend journal licenses but saw declines in some license extensions. The next CHEST agreement period from 2018-2020 will retain some journal variants and introduce new subject collections while modifying license extension terms and conditions.