CEO’s live video show gets IR innovation award
UK-BASED Software Radio Technologies (SRT) has won an innovation award from online investor community Stockopedia for using live video to reach out to the company’s retail shareholders.
5 things that make BASF’s online IR great
AT THE IR Society’s prestigious IR Best Practice Awards in London last night, German chemical company BASF SE (ETR:BAS, PINK:BASFY) walked away the big winner with four awards – 3.5 of which were for its online IR communications.
Provident Financial should return its award
LAST week in London, Provident Financial plc won the Best Website for the Private Investor Award at the UK IR Society’s annual gala. It doesn’t deserve it. The first sentence in the judging criteria for that award says: “For private investors, the internet helps to level the playing field for information access.” But Provident Financial [...]
Recognizing an IR website that doesn’t exist
THE 10th annual IR Magazine Awards Canada was held last night — and as always I’m most interested to see which company has the best Investor Relations website according to professional and retail investors. It’s an ongoing mystery to me how investors decide who should get the IR website award. I think it comes down [...]
Whoopee! It’s raining awards!
I COUNT over 100 companies (see image on the right) receiving recognition for their investor relations websites in the “Interactive Investor Relations” awards for 2006 that were announced yesterday. So what percentage of those who paid the entry fee actually got an award? That’s not disclosed. What or who is the Web Marketing Association? Who [...]
Beware of IR vendors trading on your good name
FROM time to time, I see shady investor relations firms using tenuous connections to well-known companies as a way to sell their services or plug their clients’ stock. These firms get away with their dubious practices because well-meaning investor relations departments are not circumspect enough about who they deal with. Not asking questions can have [...]
IR Magazine’s 2006 Euro Award winners announced
IR MAGAZINE announced the winners of this year’s Continental Europe Awards at a black-tie event in Zurich last night. German utility E.ON AG took the grand prix for best overall investor relations in the large-cap category. In the small- or mid-cap category, Netherlands-based semiconducter systems maker ASML Holding NV was the overall winner. The award [...]
Danske Bank has Best Nordic Region Corporate Website
DANSKE Bank, the leading financial institution in Denmark, has been recognized for having the best corporate website among Nordic large-cap companies in a rankings list published today. The Swedish finance newspaper Dagen Industri published the rankings. They were compiled based on reviews of companies’ corporate websites by communications and website development firm Hallvarsson & Halvarsson. [...]
Telenor wins for best IR in Norway
THE Norwegian Society of Financial Analysts today presented two 2006 Stockman awards for investor relations to Telenor ASA, the Norway-based international telecommunications company. The company received prizes for “Best Overall Performance” and for “Best IR Team.” Telenor’s IR directors Erling Thune and Tolle Groeterud were on hand to received the awards. Telenor, which operates fixed-network [...]
Thomson Extel European IR Survey Winners Announced
By IR Web Report Staff THE best investor relations teams and best individual IROs across Europe have been announced by the Thomson Extel Survey and Real IR magazine. Voting ran from March to June 2006 and the response to the survey, primarily conducted online, reflects the contribution of over 2,000 professionals from 750 buy-side firms, [...]
UBS tops IR services ratings in survey of European IROs
UBS provides the best Investor Relations (IR) services of any investment bank, according to the IR Directors of Europe’s largest companies. The findings come from a new research report conducted among more than 150 IR Directors, the large majority of whom operate in Europe’s top 400 companies by market capitalisation. The research was conducted by [...]
IR Magazine UK Awards 2006 Winners
Grand prix for best overall investor relations BP Grand prix for best investor relations by a FTSE 250 company* LogicaCMG *Tony Richards has recently left LogicaCMG. He is succeeded as head of investor relations by Karen Keyes. Grand prix for best smaller company investor relations Sportingbet Best investor relations officer at a FTSE 100 company [...]
Behind the scenes at the telco IR website rankings
THIS morning we published our rankings for the best investor relations websites in the telecommunications sector 2006. It was an interesting survey, not so much for who was included in the best sites group, but for who was not. Only six out of the 33 large-cap telco companies met a satisfactory standard to be recognized. [...]
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