How IR Magazine’s awards are actually chosen
IF YOU have ever wondered how the winners of the esteemed IR Magazine Awards are chosen — go on, admit you want one — here’s your chance. Almost a week ago, I did a little piece in jest about the lack of insight respondents to the IR Magazine awards survey seemed to have about topical [...]
How informed are IR Magazine award pickers?
FOR all of their prominence in the profession, it’s a remarkable thing that so little is known about how the esteemed IR Magazine Awards for investor relations are chosen. Another commentator, fellow IR blogger Peter Schiefelbein, had some interesting things to say about them recently, but as I understand it the awards are chosen by [...]
IR Magazine US investor relations awards 2007 announced
IR MAGAZINE’s awards for the best investor relations in the United States were handed out Thursday night in New York to the IR profession’s best and brightest in the opinion of investors. Around 2,900 sell- and buy-side analysts, portfolio managers and retail investors in North America voted GE, Coach, Limited Brands and Applebee’s International as [...]
IROs on candid camera
THIS is a somewhat unconventional post, but I’m hoping someone can solve a mystery that has gone unsolved for months. Out on the blogosphere is a set of photographs that are tagged “IR,” “Awards,” “London” and “Investor Relations.” They were taken on June 22, 2004 and uploaded 18 months later to the flickr photo-sharing site [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]